Financial Technology (Fintech): Current Research at The Cutting Edge
Authors
Faculty of Accountancy, Universiti Teknologi MARA, Selangor Campus, Puncak Alam Branch, Selan-gor (Malaysia)
Accounting Research Institute, Universiti Teknologi MARA (Malaysia)
Accounting Department, College of Economics and Political Science, Sultan Qaboos University, Muscat, Sultanate of Oman (Malaysia)
Article Information
DOI: 10.51244/IJRSI.2025.1210000056
Subject Category: FINANCE
Volume/Issue: 12/10 | Page No: 632-651
Publication Timeline
Submitted: 2025-03-12
Accepted: 2025-03-19
Published: 2025-11-03
Abstract
Purpose – This study analyses the frontier of financial technology (FinTech) research repertoire by identifying essential features to direct future research in the sector. This research used bibliometric and citation analysis. Scopus yielded 1,011 data points linked to the article titled FinTech. Numerous programmes were used, including Microsoft Excel to perform the frequency study, VOSviewer to visualise the data, and Harzing's Publish or Perish to calculate and analyse citation metrics. The analysis results suggest that FinTech is a cross-disciplinary research area where past literature concentrated mainly on business-related and environmental science domains. The growing number of publications on FinTech demonstrates that the critical nature of technology has affected the financial services sector, and there are undoubtedly some ramifications for the economy. The data sources selected are from the Scopus database only. This study is the first bibliometric examination of FinTech utilising a 38-year-old publication database.
Keywords
FinTech, Financial Technology, Bibliometric Analysis, Big Data, Cyber Security
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