The  latest streams in finance research: an updated bibliometric mapping based on co-occurrence data

Juan J.  García-Machado

doi:10.23762/FSO_VOL6_NO3_1

Published : 2018-09-14

Vol. 6 No. 3 (2018)

The latest streams in finance research: an updated bibliometric mapping based on co-occurrence data

Juan J. García-Machado

DOI: https://doi.org/10.23762/FSO_VOL6_NO3_1

Abstract

The aim of this study is to analyse the latest streams in finance research using bibliographic mapping in order to identify the most relevant topics, journals, universities and countries, and to visualise the interrelations among them. For this purpose, a bibliometric mapping of the publications indexed in WoS and Scopus was conducted using WOSviewer software. During the search process, a set of 7455 references for the recent period 2017-2018 were obtained, of which a total of 3000 of the most frequently cited were analysed. Based on the co-occurrence frequencies of key terms, our term map provides a visual representation of the latest research in finance and, more specifically, of the organisation around seven main clusters, namely Core Finance, Financing and Environmental Finance, Finance Networks, Financial Crisis and Financing Issues, Financial Development, Public and Social Finances, and Financial Literacy. In our opinion, this study contributes to the literature on bibliometric research. Findings may be useful for scholars, researchers and journal editors in the field of finance.

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bibliometric mapping, clustering, finance research, Scopus, WoS, WOSviewer

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García-Machado, J. J. . (2018). The latest streams in finance research: an updated bibliometric mapping based on co-occurrence data. Forum Scientiae Oeconomia, 6(3), 7–23. https://doi.org/10.23762/FSO_VOL6_NO3_1

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Juan J. García-Machado

machado@uhu.es

Affiliation:

University of Huelva, Spain Spain

Bio Statement (e.g., department and rank)

Juan J. García-Machado is full professor of finance at the Department of Financial Economics, Accounting and Operations Management in the Faculty of Business Administration and Tourism, University of Huelva (Spain), and Head of the Research Group in Management and Modelling of Organisations of the Andalusian Plan for Research, Development and Innovation of the Autonomous Government of Andalusia. He received his Ph.D. from the University of Seville in 1994. He has been Head of the Department, Director of several doctoral programmes, a member of scientific committees, Chairman of the Organising Committee of the XXVII Annual Conference of the European Academy of Management and Business Economics in 2013, and is currently a Member of the Senate of the University of Huelva. He has also been a lecturer and visiting professor at many universities in Spain, Portugal, Paraguay, Brazil, Mexico, Italy, Denmark, Poland, and United Kingdom. His research interests include derivative financial markets, banking, financial crises, risk measurement, online finance, agricultural derivatives, real options, and the valuation of firms. His work has been presented in national and international conferences and has been published in refereed journals such as the European Review of Management, Innovar Journal of Administrative and Social Sciences, Information Management and Computer Security, International Journal of Electronic Finance, European Research on Management and Business Economics, European Journal of Finance, International Research Journal of Finance and Economics and Spanish Securities Exchange Commission publications. He is a Fellow of the European Academy of Management and Business Economics and the Spanish Finance Association.