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Abstract
Sustainable finance supports long-term investment and financing aligned with environmental, social, and economic goals. This study conducts a bibliometric analysis of 2,101 SSCI-indexed articles on sustainable finance (2004–2025) from the Web of Science (WoS) database. Using CiteSpace and VOSviewer, we examine the following key aspects, in terms of leading journals, institutions and countries, highly cited articles, core research themes and development trend of sustainable finance. Our findings contribute to the deeper understanding of knowledge landscape of sustainable finance and offer valuable insights for future academic inquiry, interdisciplinary collaboration, and policy development.
可持续金融支持与环境、社会和经济目标相一致的长期投资和融资。本研究对来自Web of Science (WoS)数据库的2101篇ssci索引的可持续金融(2004-2025)文章进行了文献计量分析。利用CiteSpace和VOSviewer,我们对可持续金融的主要期刊、机构和国家、高被引文章、核心研究主题和发展趋势进行了分析。我们的研究结果有助于加深对可持续金融知识格局的理解,并为未来的学术探究、跨学科合作和政策制定提供有价值的见解。
期刊介绍:
Many economists today are concerned by the proliferation of journals and the concomitant labyrinth of research to be conquered in order to reach the specific information they require. To combat this tendency, Economics Letters has been conceived and designed outside the realm of the traditional economics journal. As a Letters Journal, it consists of concise communications (letters) that provide a means of rapid and efficient dissemination of new results, models and methods in all fields of economic research.