Unveiling Energy Finance Market: A Bibliometric and Content Analysis

This paper unveils the nexus of the energy finance market and its significant dynamics. The results exhibit potential research areas, dominating research patterns and interlinkages among them. Our sample consists of 927 articles selected from the Scopus database for the sample period of 1972–2024. We present the quantitative performance of top articles, journals, authors, countries, and institutions. The result includes keyword co-occurrence analysis and co-authorship analysis for authors and countries. We include a literature review of the top 20 cited articles and the most followed methodologies. We found five themes, four clusters, and thirty-four future research questions, showing potential areas of research in the energy finance market. Additionally, based on our results, we proposed a theoretical framework of five major independent factors impacting the energy finance market. This novel study provides a comprehensive picture of the energy finance market, covering a vast period using Scopus as a database, underscoring the prevalent research patterns and serving financial practitioners, researchers, and policymakers.