Mapping the landscape of mutual fund flow and performance relationships: a comprehensive bibliometric literature review

The purpose of the bibliometric review is to examine the research publications and to explore the prominent dimensions as well as learn about the major advances on mutual fund flow and performance relationships. The sample of the study is composed of 134 out of a total of 3,998 research articles during 1997 to 2022 from the Scopus database that met the search requirements or is directly related to fund flow and fund performance studies and analysed in R studio and VOSViewer software. The findings exhibited that the field of fund flow and performance is recently evolving with the emerging and growing aspects. The study is significant for its methodological approach and makes several substantial contributions to the body of literature such as; it facilitates the identification of the most impactful studies, the most influential authors, and emerging themes in this field.