Payment Market and Pricing: A Bibliometric Review

Abstract

The objective of this article is to analyze the scientific production about payments market and pricing, identifying the stage of publications, the most productive countries and journals, influential authors, and seminal documents, research clusters, and opportunities for future research. The methodology used to achieve this goal was a bibliometric analysis, using data from the Scopus and Web of Science. With 75% of the published records appearing between 2010 and 2021, this analysis revealed that the field is emergent. The impacts discussed are (i) the growth in the number of papers; (ii) the democratization of access to payment services; (iii) the relevance of pricing in payment processes; and (iv) the agents involved in payments transaction flow. The results show that few studies investigate payments market and pricing, making it an important topic for future research (allied with the identified hot topics) and the major contribution of this paper.