Knowledge Mapping Analysis of Finance Research

Caimei Lu¹, Danhua Su²

¹Institute of Management and Decision, Shanxi University, Taiyuan, China.
²School of Economics and Management, Shanxi University, Taiyuan, China.

DOI: 10.4236/ajibm.2015.511068                

Abstract

Based on 4158 articles from 9 financial journals during 2009-2013 from Web of Science, we use CiteSpace III to construct the knowledge mapping of finance studies. As a result, the primary research power distribution is shown. Further, finance research hotspots and major research fields are revealed via keywords co-occurrence analysis and references co-citation analysis. The findings show that the United States plays a leading role in the research of finance. There are four major research fields: asset pricing, corporate finance, financial intermediation and investor behavior. The findings will contribute to following the international research frontier and catching research trends.

Keywords

Finance, Knowledge Mapping, Major Research Fields, Visualization

Conflicts of Interest

The authors declare no conflicts of interest.

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