A Bibliometric Survey on Sustainable Finance: Research Patterns and Trends

Abstract

The changing socio-economic environment for development, has redefined many aspects of development. It has changed the word “development”, to “sustainable development”, so the source of the finance, has also changed “finance” to “sustainable finance”. The purpose of this study is to investigate trends and literature development of sustainable finance, that is an emergent issue in research. For analysis of trends and literature development of sustainable finance, this is a Bibliometric analysis, and has been conducted from the Scopus database. For analysis VOSviewer Bibliometric tools has been used to measure the different Bibliometric dimensions of sustainable finance. In the analysis, authors have examined the top most cited authors, thematic structures, top publishing journals, country-wise Bibliographic couplings and trends of the publication trends of sustainable finance. In this study, it has been found that there is widespread interdisciplinary research, for sustainable finance, but the specific and confined research of sustainable finance, is limited to the growth in publications trends that infer sustainable finance as an emerging concern of researchers and different stakeholders.