Title: Research on behavioural finance: a systematic review and bibliometric analysis

Authors: Asrar Ahmad; Md Rahber Alam; Javaid Akhter; Tariq Aziz

Addresses: Department of Business Administration, Frank and Debbie Islam Management Complex, Aligarh Muslim University, Aligarh, Postal code 202002, Aligarh, India ' Department of Business Administration, Frank and Debbie Islam Management Complex, Aligarh Muslim University, Aligarh, Postal code 202002, Aligarh, India ' Department of Business Administration, Frank and Debbie Islam Management Complex, Aligarh Muslim University, Aligarh, Postal code 202002, Aligarh, India ' Department of Business Administration, Frank and Debbie Islam Management Complex, Aligarh Muslim University, Aligarh, Postal code 202002, Aligarh, India

Abstract: This investigation aims to do a bibliometric examination of behavioural finance. The study included co-citation analysis, performance analysis, scientific mapping, and bibliographic coupling on publications published in the preceding 24 years. Through bibliometric analysis, performance analysis, and topic grouping, this investigation evaluated 188 Scopus-indexed papers, and the research looked at co-citations, authorship and country collaborations, productive authors, most essential publications, institutions, and countries, as well as the scientific output of papers. The research project tool used to analyse performance was the VOSviewer application. It directs investigators in the appropriate direction and gives information about the status of the field of behavioural finance literature. It also suggests possible directions for this field of study. Thus, researchers in the future might concentrate on the researchers may incorporate data from both Scopus and the Web of Science, or from different databases such as the Web of Science.

Keywords: behavioural finance; biases; investor psychology; bibliometric analysis; co-citation analysis; bibliographic coupling; VOSviewer.

DOI: 10.1504/IJBAF.2024.143838

International Journal of Behavioural Accounting and Finance, 2024 Vol.7 No.3, pp.314 - 335

Received: 29 Apr 2024
Accepted: 23 Sep 2024
Published online: 09 Jan 2025 *

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