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Today, innovation that results from technological improvements and developments directly affects societies and social life. This interaction led to the emergence of the concept of social innovation. Social innovation is the process of developing and implementing effective solutions to social and environmental problems in order to support social progress. The aim of the study is to investigate the researches about the concept of social innovation, which has come to the fore in recent years, by using bibliometric analysis method. For this purpose, the Web of Science database is scanned using the concept of social innovation between 2010-2019 and a total of 579 publications are reached. Publications are visualized by VOSviewer mapping method. In the end of the analysis of these studies, it is seen that the most frequently used keyword is "social innovation", the most published and most co-authored author is Antonius Schröder, and the most cited author is Frances R. Westley. In addition, it is among the findings that Spain is the most broadcasting country (90 broadcasts) and England is the country with the most citation (915 citations). [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]