Knowledge mapping in the discipline of financial literacy and charting the future directions

The field of financial literacy is ever evolving and a wide array of research has illuminated this field since last three decades. The present study explores the avenues of research dimensions in financial literacy domain by synthesizing the contributions of pioneering journals, authors, institutions and countries. The authors have deployed bibliometric and network visualisation tool such as VoS Viewer for analysing the bibliometric information obtained from Scopus database. Analysis of 762 nos of articles found in the dataset, published in 395 journals revealed 10 highly cited research article, 4 cluster of keywords and 8 clusters of countries that substantiated the research field. The VoS Network visualisation has been depicted for each parameter. The study found that financial literacy, human literacy, education and retirement constitute matured, yet potential research areas to be undertaken by scholars of Financial Literacy.