Renminbi Internationalization Process: A Quantitative Literature Review

Ramona Orăștean () and Silvia Cristina Mărginean
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Ramona Orăștean: Faculty of Economic Sciences, Lucian Blaga University of Sibiu, 550324 Sibiu, Romania
Silvia Cristina Mărginean: Faculty of Economic Sciences, Lucian Blaga University of Sibiu, 550324 Sibiu, Romania

IJFS, 2023, vol. 11, issue 1, 1-25

Abstract: As China’s position in the global economy has gradually improved, the importance of debates on the role of the renminbi in the international monetary system has significantly increased. This paper uses bibliometric methods—Bibliometrix R-package and its web-based graphical interface Biblioshiny—applied to data imported from Web of Science and Scopus to investigate and synthesize the renminbi literature published in English between 1995 and 2021. Science mapping offers a visual representation of different networks and clusters of authors’ keywords. The performance analysis, a quantitative evaluation of the most published sources, authors and papers on renminbi internationalization in the last 25 years, shows that the interest on the topic has grown, particularly after 2009 and 2016, respectively. There is also a high degree of concentration in the field, considering that out of the 802 analyzed papers, published in 393 sources, five authors and four journals had the highest impact. The content analysis identifies the main directions in the renminbi internationalization literature and future research questions to further explore this subject. The COVID-19 pandemic and post-Ukraine war era could generate a deeper reform of the international monetary system, in which the Chinese currency will strengthen its global position alongside the US dollar and the euro.

Keywords: bibliometric analysis; Bibliometrix; Biblioshiny; Chinese currency; renminbi internationalization; science mapping (search for similar items in EconPapers)
JEL-codes: F2 F3 F41 F42 G1 G2 G3 (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Date: 2023
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