Studies on Dividend Policy: A Bibliometric Analysis

Abstract

Dividend is one of the controversial topics in financial management which mean out of earning of management how much is distributed to the shareholders and what percentage is retained in business. The main objective of the study is to provide comprehensive overview of previous studies related with the topic 'Dividend Policy' in context of statistical analysis of published articles/documents around the world. For this purpose, the study employed bibliometric analysis, which was conducted through Bibliometrix library and Biblio-Shiny platform of RStudio. Web of science database was used for collection of data with the keywords "dividend policy", "Dividend payouts", "Determinants" and "Lintner model" covering the period of 20 years from 2002 to 2022. The findings of the study depict that in 2011, there was great increment in number of publications and from 2018 the publications are continuously increasing. USA, UK and China are the pre-eminent countries having significant contribution in research on dividend policy.

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