Purpose

This paper aims to study the main trends of scientific research in Islamic finance’s social aspects to clarify place, role and functions, especially in the context of increasing social problems. To achieve this goal, this paper focuses on the social component of Islamic finance, analyzes publications on social Islamic finance in the Web of Science database, covering the period from 1979 to 2020, specify the geographical localization of research networks, determines the most cited authors and their scientific position.

Design/methodology/approach

The authors have applied several literature review techniques, a bibliometric citation and co-citation analysis, a co-authorship analysis and a review of the most cited papers. The analyzes’ results allow us to offer five future questions in Islamic social finance, zakat and waqf, which have not been investigated before and could influence Islamic social finance and Islamic finance research.

Findings

The authors also derive and summarize five leading future research questions.

Research limitations/implications

This is a limitation of using only the Web of Science Core Collection database as the premier resource and the most trusted citation index for the world’s scientific and scholarly research. Further study might expand the types of analyzed units, include more keywords and include other databases, such as Scopus.

Originality/value

This paper can be considered as an inspirational one to future researchers and policymakers in Islamic social finance.

中文翻译：

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伊斯兰社会金融：文献综述和未来研究方向

目的

本文旨在研究伊斯兰金融社会方面科学研究的主要趋势，以明确场所、作用和功能，尤其是在社会问题日益增多的背景下。为了实现这一目标，本文着眼于伊斯兰金融的社会成分，分析了 Web of Science 数据库中关于社会伊斯兰金融的出版物，涵盖了 1979 年至 2020 年的时期，指定了研究网络的地理定位，确定了被引用最多的作者以及他们的科学地位。

设计/方法/方法

作者应用了多种文献综述技术、文献计量引文和共引分析、合着分析和对被引用最多的论文的评论。分析的结果使我们能够在伊斯兰社会金融、zakat 和waqf 中提出五个未来的问题，这些问题以前没有被调查过，可能会影响伊斯兰社会金融和伊斯兰金融研究。

发现

作者还推导出并总结了五个主要的未来研究问题。

研究限制/影响

这是仅使用 Web of Science 核心合集数据库作为全球科学和学术研究的首要资源和最受信任的引文索引的限制。进一步的研究可能会扩展分析单元的类型，包括更多的关键字并包括其他数据库，例如 Scopus。

原创性/价值

这篇论文可以被视为对伊斯兰社会金融领域未来的研究人员和政策制定者具有启发意义。