Exploring the blue finance landscape: a bibliometric review and new discoveries

The current study presents a comprehensive bibliometric analysis of one of the most emerging topics called 'blue finance'. This study exhibits the trend, insight and research directions to understand the current state of blue finance research topic. For data analysis, Scopus has been used as the major academic database to analyse the research trend, key authors, most influential institution, and thematic clusters from the literature review of this research area. The major findings of the study reveal significant growth of this area, with a special focus on sustainable ocean economies, marine conservation funding, and innovative financial instruments. This study also identifies gap in the current literature and provide prospective future research directions.