Title: Mapping and trends of research in finance journals
Authors: Naba Kumar Das
Addresses: Department of Business Management, Assam Women's University, 785004, Jorhat, Assam, India
Abstract: This paper seeks to map the various literature published in the domain of finance from the top ten finance journals as listed in Google Scholar for the year 2019. A total of 864 research articles are considered for the study and the same are segregated into various parameters like asset pricing, institutional investors, banking, corporate finance, corporate taxation, house pricing, insurance, executive policy, taxation to draw a mapping on recent trends in finance. Out of the 864 publications, the majority, i.e., 48.51% is from asset pricing followed by banking which contributed 16.13% of the total publication. The study will be beneficial for academicians, researchers and other stakeholders to have a better understanding of recent trends of literature published in the said finance journals.
Keywords: asset pricing; institutional investors; banking; corporate finance; corporate taxation.
DOI: 10.1504/IJBBM.2021.121382
International Journal of Bibliometrics in Business and Management, 2021 Vol.1 No.4, pp.347 - 360
Received: 25 Aug 2020
Accepted: 01 Mar 2021
Published online: 09 Mar 2022 *