A bibliometric analysis on the evolution of research in financial accounting

Bibliometrics has become, in the last decades, an essential tool for evaluating and analyzing the results of scientists and of the collaboration between research centers, with bibliometric analysis becoming increasingly popular in recent decades due to the advancement, availability, and accessibility of bibliometric software and scientific databases. The purpose of this study was to examine the number of bibliometric works published over time in the Web of Science database, the fields in which these analyses are most commonly used, how many bibliometric works on financial accounting have been published to date, and the most commonly used keywords in the publication of these works. The use of one of the most popular bibliometric software, Bibliometrix, was intended to provide an analytical model of published works in the field of financial accounting.