FinTech Adoption during COVID-19 Pandemic: Bibliometric analysis. What Lessons for the Future?

This study applies a bibliometric analysis and a systematic review of papers published in the Scopus database about the use of FinTech during the COVID-19 pandemic. A bibliometric analysis allows researchers to identify the foundations of a specific research field, determine the main findings of previous studies, and identify future research ideas. This analysis is based on the trend analysis in the number of papers, the co-occurrence keywords analysis, the evolution analysis of the research topics over the years, the most influential authors, organizations, and countries analyses, the most cited papers, reference papers, and journal analyses. It reviewed 72 articles on FinTech during the COVID-19 pandemic and published in the Scopus database. Bibliometric analysis was conducted using VOSviewer, and the evolution analysis was performed using CiteSpace. The study identified six major clusters: banking, the COVID-19 pandemic, blockchain, artificial intelligence, e-commerce, banking stability, and insurance. It also highlights the trend in the research papers related to FinTech during the COVID-19 pandemic. In addition, this study highlights various future research opportunities in this field. The findings of this study have practical implications for the different uses of FinTech, such as the impact of integrating FinTech into other industries besides the banking system and financial industries such as health, pharmaceutical, and education. This study is the only one to review key topics on FinTech during the COVID-19 pandemic that can be largely used for future FinTech developments. This study provides an overview of how the research on FinTech has developed during the COVID-19 pandemic and a summary of the most influential authors, along with countries, organizations, and journal sources. This offers an opportunity for future research to focus on this topic.