Mapping the landscape of sustainable finance (2004–2025): A bibliometric analysis

Zhan Wang and Lijuan Xu

Economics Letters, 2025, vol. 256, issue C

Abstract: Sustainable finance supports long-term investment and financing aligned with environmental, social, and economic goals. This study conducts a bibliometric analysis of 2,101 SSCI-indexed articles on sustainable finance (2004–2025) from the Web of Science (WoS) database. Using CiteSpace and VOSviewer, we examine the following key aspects, in terms of leading journals, institutions and countries, highly cited articles, core research themes and development trend of sustainable finance. Our findings contribute to the deeper understanding of knowledge landscape of sustainable finance and offer valuable insights for future academic inquiry, interdisciplinary collaboration, and policy development.

Keywords: Sustainable finance; Bibliometric analysis; Climate change (search for similar items in EconPapers)
JEL-codes: C89 G18 Q56 (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Date: 2025
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DOI: 10.1016/j.econlet.2025.112625

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