ABSTRACT
The study focuses on 3189 research titles published in the Journal of Finance (JF) during 1989-2020. The main objective of this study is to evaluate the whole collection of scientific works that appeared in the Journal of Finance published by the American Finance Association. The bibliographic and citation data for this study were acquired from the Web of Science (WOS) Core Collection. The study was carried out using scientometric indicators with the support of R-tool and VOS viewer science mapping software. The analysis provides a brief overview of the main factors such as publication evolution, most productive authors, citation structure, author collaboration network, co citation analysis, most productive countries, and multiple correspondence analysis for keyword plus used in the JF. The journal, on average, published about 99.65 research documents per year. Forty countries contributed to the scientific documents. The United States of America found to be the high performing country in the JF. It was observed that some Asian and European higher education institutions are performing well for the last two years. The first three countries (USA: 3291, UK:263 and Canada: 157) are responsible for 57.7%, the first fifteen countries for 65.9%, and the first 20 countries for 81.5% of the total records 3189. There are 734 authors of single-authored papers found, and they contributed to 947 single-authored documents—a total of 2302 keyword plus identified in the journals.
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