Financial Sustainability Publication Trend: A Bibliometric Study

Abstract

Financial sustainability is the organization’s capability to maintain the finance in the future to meet its goals. Financial sustainability became an attractive topic in research. ScienceDirect is a website that contains a database of quality research in the world and also publishes many published articles related to the public sector. This study aims to map the trends of publications related to the public sector. This study uses a visualization bibliometric approach, with data obtained from ScienceDirect and then analyzed with VOS Viewer. This study uses the keywords "financial sustainability", the years’ range is 2013 up to 2022, the article type is research articles, and the subject area of (1) economics, econometrics, and finance, and (2) business, management, and accounting found there are 734 articles. Analysis with VOS Viewer with a minimum of related document 25 shows that there are 2 research clusters, with 60 items, 1669 links, and a total link strength of 10656. Research on financial sustainability is very diverse and extensive with almost the same average number, effect related to 232, development 226, evidence, and performance 137, but some areas can still be developed because rarely discussed. 

Received: 15 June 2023 / Accepted: 08 August 2023 / Published: 5 September 2023