Impact investment for sustainable development: A bibliometric analysis

Abstract

Impact investment has tremendous potential to contribute towards sustainable development. The growing significance and gradual development of the field warranted an investigation into its research trends. This paper provides a deep insight into the field of impact investment with reference to sustainable development using bibliometric analysis and content analysis. This is done by evaluating 147 relevant documents identified from the Scopus database following PRISMA protocol. VOSviewer and Biblioshiny were used for analyzing the data and visualizing the results. The study is holistic and explores the diversity of the existing researches pertaining to the study area on the basis of several parameters. This study identifies prolific authors, documents, sources, institutions and countries along with impactful keywords. The study provides significant insights about the prior research conducted in the field by identifying eight research clusters. It also provides valuable information about the research themes. Research results are expected to provide detailed insights about the research landscape of this particular field and also new direction for further research in this growing field.