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On Hotspot and Frontier Issues concerning Internet Finance Research: An Analysis Based on Citespace

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XU Xin & FENG Shi-hui

Online published: 2015-03-20

Abstract

With the development of information technology and mobile communications, the internet financial service platforms, including the third-party payment, online microfinance and credit payment, are rapidly rising. Internet finance is expanding with an unprecedented speed, which not only changes the traditional finance a lot, but also brings a vast number of new topics to academia. This paper tries to use Citespace to analyze the literature of internet finance in Web of Science from 2003 to 2013. By using visualization map in the analysis of the institutes and countries, this paper tries to show the influence distribution in the field of internet finance research. We find that America makes the most contribution in the amount of academic literatures and England has the biggest academic influence in this field. A keywords co-occurrence analysis will discover the development history and hot topics in the past ten years. This paper also discusses the future development trend based on the literature co-occurrence and burst detection and believes that risk-management will be a frontier issue.

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XU Xin & FENG Shi-hui . On Hotspot and Frontier Issues concerning Internet Finance Research: An Analysis Based on Citespace[J]. Journal of East China Normal University (Philosophy and Social Sciences), 2015 , 47(2) : 133 -139 . DOI: 10.16382/ j.cnki.10005579.2015.02.016

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