Title: Mapping the study of behavioural finance: a bibliometric analysis approach

Authors: Arfat Manzoor; Sumiya Nabi; Mohammad Shafi

Addresses: Department of Commerce, Government Degree College Uri, Baramulla, Kashmir, 193123, India ' Department of Commerce, University of Kashmir, Srinagar, Kashmir, 190006, India ' Department of Economics, IUST, Awantipora, Kashmir, 192122, India

Abstract: The purpose of this paper is to present a bibliometric analysis of the relevant research in the field of behavioural finance. This study was conducted over 10 years (2012-2022). Data were extracted from the Scopus database. The search criteria of the study were confined to the keywords of 'Behavioural' or 'Behavioural Finance' and only paper-type documents were considered for the analysis. The inclusion criteria were limited to English language papers and papers in language other than English were excluded from the study. Further; the Conference papers; book chapters etc. were not included in the study. Out of the total of 1322 papers 993 papers met the inclusion criterion and the rest were excluded. This study uses Vosviewer software which provides various sets of analyses such as co-citation of authors; bibliographic coupling of countries and sources and publication distribution.

Keywords: behavioural finance; bibliometric analysis; visualisation maps; Scopus; Vosviewer.

DOI: 10.1504/IJBAF.2024.143836

International Journal of Behavioural Accounting and Finance, 2024 Vol.7 No.3, pp.254 - 275

Received: 08 Aug 2023
Accepted: 06 Aug 2024
Published online: 09 Jan 2025 *

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