Bibliographic Analysis on Real Estate Finance Literature: A Study on Articles in Web of Science Core Collection Database

The aim of this study is to make a bibliographic analysis of the articles published between 1993-2022 in the journals indexed in the database Web of Science Core Collection Database on the subject of “Real Estate Finance”. Web of Science Core Collection Database was used in the preparation of the data file to be used in the research. 1405 articles included in the research were determined by filtering the search for the term “Real Estate” with the term “finance”, “financing” or “financial”. 7730 publications were narrowed down to “Citation Topics Meso: Economics”, “Web of Science Categories: Business Finance”, Document Type: Article” and “Publication Years:1993-2022”. The data file obtained by collecting the “full record and cited references” records of these articles was cleaned. Statistical analyses were carried out through R-Based Biblioshiny application. The results of the research indicate that the interest in Real Estate Finance in the literature continues to increase. Leading journals in this field are Journal of Real Estate Finance and Economics, Journal of Property Investment & Finance, and Real Estate Economics; the leading authors were determined to be Liow KH and Ling DC. Within the scope of the study, the current state of the literature on real estate finance was examined and the trends for future research were revealed.