SUSTAINABLE ISLAMIC FINANCE: BIBLIOMETRIC AND VISUALIZED ANALYSIS OF CURRENT EMPIRICAL RESEARCH

Abstract

This study aims to develop the research gap in sustainable Islamic Finance using a bibliometric analysis of recent empirical research outputs in the area, which comprises publications in scholarly journal articles and book chapters. Data were collected from Scopus for the period 1997 – 2022. This study analyses 285 Scopus scientific documents using Vosviewer, RStudio and Biblioshiny for bibliometric tools to process scientific documents extracted from various sources. Our study shows that the most prominent word in the Scopus scientific papers on Sustainable Islamic Finance is Islamic finance, followed by sustainable development, finance, banking, and investments. The keywords that Scopus scientific documents use little on the topic are ethical investing, climate change, Islamic social finance, waqf, zakat, takaful, green sukuk, and microfinance. There is a clear gap in knowledge around Islamic financial instruments in research that follow our findings and would benefit from further research.

Keywords

• sustainable islamic finance
• socially responsible investment (sri)
• sustainable investment
• sustainable development goals
• bibliometric analysis.