Scientometric approach to Islamic banking studies

Subject Areas : Islamic Marketing

Meysam Agheli ¹ , Esmail Mohebi Kondesari ² , Fahima Yousefi ³ , Mina Moslemi Kaviri ^{4 *}

1 - Department of Management, Ashkezar Branch, Islamic Azad University, Ashkezar, Iran
2 - PhD student of Islamic Azad University of Tabriz
3 - Master of Science, Business Management, Strategy Orientation, Payam Noor Sari, Mazandaran, Iran.
4 - Industrial Management, Faculty of Human Sciences, Islamic Azad University, Yazd, Iran

Received: 2025-09-14 Accepted : 2025-09-14 Published : 2025-09-09

Keywords: Islamic banking, bank, Islamic, science, Scopus citation database,

Abstract :

Aim: Providing a big picture of the state of researches and how different fields are connected and knowing how these fields grow and develop over time has been of special importance in studies and drawing scientific maps. The purpose of this research is to examine the analytical study of Islamic banking from 1985 to 2025 and provide a comprehensive picture of scientific productions and draw a co-occurrence map of the words of this field based on the articles indexed in the Scopus database.
Methodology: The research is an applied scientometric type, which has been done using human indicators and network analysis. By referring to the Scopus database and searching in the field of Islamic banking, 13783 sources were identified and finally 1157 sources were analyzed. No specific time period was considered for the search and the data from 1985 to 2025 and VOSwiver software was used.
Findings: show that since 2015, the scientific productions of this field have started their growth period.
and reached the maximum number of articles in 2021. In fact, this growth trend has reached its maximum in the years 2018, 2019, 2020, 2021 and 2022. Also, the most productive researcher was awarded to Hassan Mohammad Kabir (18 articles), Hassan Rusni Bet with 11 articles. Also, in the field of Islamic banking, the focus of the engine is on Islamic finance, Islamic profitability, Islamic banking and finance, economic growth, sustainable development, economic and social effects, corporate governance.

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