Financial technology amid the COVID-19: a bibliometric approach

Abstract

This paper aims to investigate publications' metadata, in terms of sources, authors, countries, affiliations, and keywords, relating fintech with the COVID-19 pandemic using a bibliometric approach. We conducted a bibliometric analysis by employing VOSviewer application as the tool. The published documents were extracted from the Dimensions.ai website by filtering keywords "Fintech" and "COVID-19" in their titles or abstracts. 266 documents were retrieved as the dataset from January 2020 to May 2022 with none in previous years. The majority of publications were in the form of articles (n=166 or 62.4%). The most prolific university in this study was Amity University (n=6), while the most prolific country was Indonesia (n=34). The most productive country, Indonesia, occupied the last position of nine most cited states within the dataset. SSRN Electronic Journal was the most cited source with 349 times. We found that research in Indonesia was more concerned to the relationship of COVID-19 with SMEs and people's financial condition, while research in India and China was more concerned to the development of technology implemented within financial services. This study provides broader picture of COVID-19related fintech research during the pandemic period which may be beneficial for academics and researchers to carry out further studies in this field.