A Bibliometric Analysis of Global Publications on Financial Crisis

The study aims to apply bibliometric analysis to financial crisis to analyze research trends on financial crisis through 194 research papers published on the Scopus database from 2000-2020. The findings offer a comprehensive overview of global publication trends, highlighting significant research growth following the 2007–2008 financial crisis, it also identifies most influential authors, publishers, countries and research papers. The findings of the study demonstrated the deep study in areas such as banking stability, exchange rates, monetary and fiscal policy; whereas debt crisis, risk, and stock market are the emerging areas of study. Network analysis, conducted using VOS viewer software, revealed four thematic clusters through bibliographic coupling (i) Role of the Banking Sector in Financial Crises (ii) Impact of the 2008 Global Financial Crisis on Systemic Risk and Market Dynamics (iii) Early Warning Systems and Structural Vulnerabilities in Financial Crises (iv) Corporate Finance, Liquidity, and Financial Constraints during the 2007–2008 Crisis. This analysis provides valuable insights into emerging trends in financial crisis research and suggests directions for future studies.