Purpose

The purpose of this study is to provide quantitative information on the growth of Islamic finance literature. The study focused on publishing trends, countries producing research on Islamic finance, key authors, major contributing organizations, authorship patterns, keywords and articles with the highest citations.

Design/methodology/approach

Bibliometric analysis is applied to analyse the growth and publishing trends in Islamic finance literature. The Web of Science (WoS) database was used to extract bibliometric data covering the period 1939–2019 for Islamic finance literature.

Findings

The study finds that Islamic finance research has gained remarkable momentum in the literature. However, such growth is largely manifested in Malaysia because of a conducive atmosphere for this type of research. Interestingly, the study finds that the three most productive journals are located in the UK and Malaysia, while Professor M. Kabir Hassan from the University of New Orleans, the USA appears to head the list of authors with 23 publications on Islamic finance.

Practical implications

This study provides up-to-date literature on the current state of Islamic finance in the world; as a result, it supports the development of policies by the Islamic finance industry. The findings of the study also serve as a reference point for Islamic finance training and educational institutions.

Originality/value

Islamic finance is an emerging financial discipline; as such, there is a need for more awareness of this financial system in the world. Muslim-majority countries, especially Saudi Arabia, Turkey, Indonesia, the United Arab Emirates (UAE), Pakistan and Bahrain, have to include Islamic finance in their curriculum and establish research institutions and research journals. In addition, Arabic language journals should be indexed in WoS and/or Scopus to provide a high-quality publication platform. This study provides a more comprehensive bibliometric analysis on the growth of Islamic finance literature (1939–2019) in the WoS database; most of the prior studies have covered relatively few areas of focus and a lower range of years in some cases.

中文翻译：

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伊斯兰金融优质研究论文的文献计量分析：来自科学网的证据

目的

本研究的目的是提供有关伊斯兰金融文献增长的定量信息。该研究侧重于出版趋势、开展伊斯兰金融研究的国家、主要作者、主要贡献组织、作者模式、关键词和引用次数最多的文章。

设计/方法/方法

文献计量分析用于分析伊斯兰金融文献的增长和出版趋势。Web of Science (WoS) 数据库用于提取涵盖 1939-2019 年期间的伊斯兰金融文献的文献计量数据。

发现

研究发现，伊斯兰金融研究在文献中获得了显着的发展势头。然而，这种增长主要体现在马来西亚，因为这种研究的氛围非常有利。有趣的是，该研究发现，三个最具生产力的期刊位于英国和马来西亚，而美国新奥尔良大学的 M. Kabir Hassan 教授似乎以 23 篇关于伊斯兰金融的出版物位居作者榜首。

实际影响

本研究提供了有关世界伊斯兰金融现状的最新文献；因此，它支持伊斯兰金融业制定政策。研究结果也可作为伊斯兰金融培训和教育机构的参考点。

原创性/价值

伊斯兰金融是一门新兴的金融学科；因此，全世界需要更多地了解这种金融体系。穆斯林占多数的国家，特别是沙特阿拉伯、土耳其、印度尼西亚、阿拉伯联合酋长国（UAE）、巴基斯坦和巴林，必须将伊斯兰金融纳入其课程，并建立研究机构和研究期刊。此外，阿拉伯语期刊应在 WoS 和/或 Scopus 中编入索引，以提供高质量的出版平台。本研究对 WoS 数据库中伊斯兰金融文献（1939-2019）的增长提供了更全面的文献计量分析；大多数先前的研究涵盖的重点领域相对较少，在某些情况下的年份范围较小。