Jul 2026· Journal of Asia Entrepreneurship and Sustainability· Vol 22, pp. 309-325· 0 citations
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Financial inclusion research has expanded fast but the literature itself tells an awkward story. This study reviews 1,996 open access peer reviewed articles from the Dimensions database (2015–2025) using bibliometric analysis via the bibliometrix R package. Publication output grew at 31.56% CAGR over the period. Financial literacy, digital finance, credit access, and rural geography are the structural pillars of this field; FinTech and digital adoption are the fast moving edges. The country rankings cut against what you might expect: the UK, US, and Indonesia are the top three contributors by output. India ranks fourth, despite being the subject of most of this research. That asymmetry between who produces knowledge and who it is about runs through the whole field. Co-citation analysis reveals two distinct intellectual communities: one focused on household and gender outcomes, another on institutional finance and governance. The paper concludes with recommendations for policymakers, financial institutions, and civil society organisations working on gender equitable finance in India and similar contexts.
This paper offers a bibliometric and thematic analysis of the literature on Central Bank Digital Currencies (CBDCs), treating the digital euro as a specific euro-area case within the broader CBDC debate. Drawing on 522 peer-reviewed journal articles from Scopus and Web of Science covering the period 2016-2026, this paper combines performance analysis, science mapping, Term Frequency-Inverse Document Frequency (TF-IDF) text representation, Non-negative Matrix Factorization (NMF) topic modelling, k-means clustering and interpretive content analysis, using Bibliometrix in R, Python, and VOSviewer. The results show a sharp acceleration in academic output from 2021 to 2025 and identify five thematic areas: technology infrastructure; monetary-financial stability; adoption and trust; digital euro governance and design; regulation and crypto-assets. The paper shows that the field has achieved thematic consolidation but remains only partially integrated across institutional, behavioural, technological, and market-oriented research strands.
The relationship between environmental, social and governance (ESG) performance and financial performance has generated one of the largest empirical literatures in management research, and a steady supply of reviews summarising it. This study audits that literature rather than summarising it. Search strings are treated as measurement instruments: calibrated in stages, diagnosed for precision and recall, and reported with their failures intact. The resulting corpus of 2,923 documents is mapped along four dimensions: conceptual, thematic, intellectual and social structure.Three findings converge from independent evidence. The conceptual core occupies the basic quadrant of the thematic map: connected to everything, internally coherent with almost nothing. The citation base has bifurcated, with a contemporary ESG measurement school of 22 works forming separately from the corporate social performance tradition rather than absorbing it. The social structure fragments into 221 components, the largest holding nine of 6,600 authors, with productivity departing sharply from Lotka’s law. The literature grows without integrating. Its vocabulary has also turned over almost completely, and a direct test shows this was displacement rather than relabelling: the co-word neighbourhood of ESG performance today overlaps that of corporate social responsibility before 2015 by only 11 per cent.Two methodological findings follow. Keyword screening reproduced manual inclusion decisions at 95.4 per cent raw agreement but a Cohen’s kappa of 0.297, because unit of analysis is a property of research design rather than of vocabulary. And because Scopus uses one delimiter between references and between authors, naive parsing silently returns the final author of each cited work.
Kanchan Rani, Satnam Singh, Prakhar Wadhwa· International journal of com...· 0 citations
Purpose – The study aims to conduct a bibliometric analysis of the existing academic literature on Central Bank Digital Currency (CBDC) and its impact on the Indian economy. The review highlights key research themes, influential contributions, and future research directions. Findings – The findings indicate a significant surge in CBDC research, particularly post-2020, driven by India's digital rupee initiatives. Key research themes include monetary policy implications, financial inclusion, payment system efficiency, and regulatory challenges. The bibliometric analysis identifies leading authors, institutions, and journals contributing to the discourse, with a growing international collaboration trend. However, research gaps remain in empirical studies assessing India's CBDC pilot, its environmental impact, and cross-country comparative analyses.Practical implications – The review offers valuable insights for policymakers, financial institutions, and researchers by identifying research trends and thematic gaps, thereby guiding future investigations and policy decisions regarding CBDC implementation in India. Originality – This study contributes to the literature by systematically mapping the intellectual landscape of CBDC research in the Indian context. The findings help bridge knowledge gaps and inform future policy frameworks for digital currency adoption.
Tanya Khaneja, Mohd Fardeen, Simnu Bhatia et al.· International journal of com...· 0 citations
This study aims to map the intellectual and conceptual landscape of the B Corp movement within the scientific literature through a quantitative bibliometric analysis. Utilising the Web of Science (WoS) Core Collection database, the research analyses 108 peer-reviewed articles published between 2007 and 2025. Data visualisation and network analysis, including co-authorship and keyword co-occurrence, were performed using the VOSviewer software. The results show that the number of publications has been growing exponentially since 2011, and the majority of the articles are in the business and management field. A total of 282 keywords were evaluated, and “B Corp” (total link strength: 315) and “Corporate Social Responsibility” (total link strength: 92) were identified as central conceptual pillars. The most cited influential work is by Julie Battilana and Alnoor Ebrahim, with 728 citations. Geographic concentration is still strong in the USA and Europe, but research on emerging economies, such as Türkiye, where there are presently 15 certified B Corps, is critically lacking. The results show a conceptual move from general corporate responsibility to specific issues of 'social impact' and 'employee ownership'. The paper concludes with a research agenda for future research that can help bridge the gap between global norms and local institutional contexts, particularly for researchers in Türkiye.
Şafak Altay· Trends in Business and Econo...· 0 citations
The rapid evolution of financial technology has transformed the global financial landscape, creating opportunities for innovation, inclusion, and efficiency while introducing systemic risks, regulatory uncertainties, and challenges to financial stability. This study presents a bibliometric review of global research trends at the intersection of financial technology and financial stability from 2000 to 2025, mapping the intellectual structure, identifying emerging themes, and highlighting influential contributions. Using Scopus data, the analysis examines 339 peer-reviewed documents across 242 sources. Bibliometric techniques were applied through VOSviewer, Bibliometrix (R), and Biblioshiny to evaluate publication trends, influential authors, thematic clusters, co-authorship networks, and keyword co-occurrences. The results show an average annual growth rate of 21.46 percent, with a marked increase in publications after 2017 coinciding with the mainstream adoption of digital finance and heightened policy focus on financial resilience. Findings indicate that financial technology promotes financial inclusion, banking efficiency, and economic empowerment, yet also introduces cybersecurity threats, regulatory gaps, and systemic vulnerabilities, particularly in emerging markets. Dominant themes include blockchain, digital payments, financial literacy, and central bank digital currencies, with decentralized finance and artificial intelligence emerging as fast-growing areas of scholarly interest. Geographically, China leads in publication volume, while the United Kingdom and the United States dominate in scholarly influence. This review provides a strategic roadmap for researchers and policymakers to navigate the evolving financial technology landscape and emphasizes the need for future research to integrate ethical governance, artificial intelligence risk management, and inclusive financial innovation frameworks.
Hadrry Rony, Asri Osman, Irwan Ibrahim et al.· International journal of com...· 0 citations
The Board of Directors (BOD) is widely recognized as a central governance mechanism influencing corporate effectiveness, strategic decision-making, and organizational performance. As corporate governance challenges have intensified in the post–global financial crisis era, scholarly interest in board characteristics has expanded significantly, generating a rapidly growing and fragmented body of literature. In response, this study conducts a comprehensive bibliometric analysis to systematically map the intellectual structure, thematic evolution, and emerging research trends in studies on board of directors’ characteristics over the period 2014–2025. Using 862 peer-reviewed journal articles retrieved from the Web of Science Core Collection, this study applies performance analysis and science mapping techniques with the support of Bibliometrix (R) and VOSviewer. The analysis includes descriptive statistics, citation and co-citation analysis, bibliographic coupling, keyword co-occurrence, three-field plots, and thematic evolution analysis. The results show that publication output has grown a lot since 2018, with Spain, the United States, the United Kingdom, and China being the most important contributors. The bibliographic coupling and cocitation analyses identify three dominant thematic clusters: (1) corporate governance, corporate social responsibility (CSR), and firm performance; (2) board characteristics and firm outcomes; and (3) ownership structure, governance mechanisms, and firm performance. Furthermore, thematic evolution analysis highlights a gradual shift from traditional board structure and agency-oriented research toward emerging themes related to board diversity, ESG (environmental, social, and governance), audit committees, executive roles, and sustainability-oriented governance. By extending the temporal scope beyond earlier bibliometric reviews and incorporating advanced visualization techniques, this study provides updated and more nuanced evidence on the evolution of board characteristics research. The findings contribute to the corporate governance literature by illustrating the field’s theoretical transition toward broader stakeholder-oriented perspectives and provide helpful suggestions to scholars, practitioners, and policymakers seeking to enhance governance effectiveness in an increasingly sustainability-driven business environment.
N. T. Cao, Ngoc Tien Nguyen· Multidisciplinary Reviews· 0 citations
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