E-Finance Publication Mapping: A Bibliometric Constructing Networks during Four Decades

Abstract

Research on e-finance continues to develop but there were problems with research limitations on one country, region, and/or aspect. From a bibliometric constructing networks, this study purposes to visually study mapping and publication trends in the field of e-finance on an international scale. This study used bibliometric techniques with secondary data from Scopus. Analyze and visualize data using the VOSViewer program and the analyze search results function on Scopus. This study analyzed 229 scientific documents published from 1981 to 2019. According to research, the Goethe-Universität Frankfurt am Main and Martin, P.L., have the most active institutions and individual scientists in e-finance publication. Computer science and International Journal of Electronic Finance is the most widely subject area and disseminated outlets of e-finance publication. There were three maps of collaborating e-finance publication groups from around the world. Based on the identification of a collection of knowledge accumulated from over thirty-eight years of publication, this research proposes a grouping of e-finance publication themes: Technology, Electronic Finance, Economic Growth, Proof of Theorem, Information Systems, Information Services, Processing, and E-Government, as TEETIPE publication theme.