Bibliometric Analysis of Financial Crime Links Using Visual Maps

Abstract

This chapter provides a bibliometric analysis of financial crime, and includes visual maps to assist in the understanding of the issues involved. Bibliometrics deals with the collection, processing, and quantitative analysis of bibliographic data from scientific publications and, using statistical methods, assesses the academic quality of the publications analyzed. Depending on the methods used, bibliometric analyses of citations, co-citation, coauthorship, use of certain terms, bibliographic sources, etc. can be carried out through various factor analyses as well as content analyses. The main objective of this subsection is to quantify the state of the art in terms of research identified as having been carried out according to scientific articles queried via the Web of Science (WoS) platform.