Mapping Sustainable Finance Research: A Bibliometric Perspective
Abstract
This study describes a comprehensive bibliometric analysis of scholarly publications and practices in sustainable finance research, aiming to identify the global research patterns in this field. Sourcing data from several reputable academic journals from 2014 to 2024 identified key research clusters, prolific authors, and institutions. The purpose of this study is to investigate trends and literature development in sustainable finance, which is an emerging research issue. Bibliometric analysis of sustainable finance trends and literature development using the Web of Science database. Use the keyword "sustainable finance" to retrieve the results. There are 833 document results in the Web of Science database. After applying the inclusion and exclusion criteria, which limited the results to 2014-24 and refined the results by areas such as Business Economics, Environmental Sciences, Ecology, and Social Sciences Other Topics, the final number of document results is 598. Biblioshiny and VOS Viewer are the tools to use for bibliometric analysis.
Fields of Study & Subjects
Sustainable Finance and Green Bonds
Corporate Social Responsibility Reporting
Innovation
Sustainability
Human-Machine Systems
Publication details
- Journal / source
- International Journal for Research in Applied Science and Engineering Technology
- Volume
- 14
- Issue
- 1
- Pages
- 397–406
- Publication date
- 10 January 2026