The Research Developments and Trend of Municipal Bonds: A Bibliometric Analysis

Abstract

This study aims to explore and analyze the development and trend of the topic of municipal bonds in the fields of economics and business. Research data using peer-reviewed journals, as many as 478 journals sourced from the Scopus database. Data analysis used a bibliometric approach. Bibliometric analysis utilizing the help of R-biblioshiny and VOSviewer. The research results show an interesting trend of this research from various indicators based on the frequencies and citations of the publications. More importantly, some popular research areas and topics have been uncovered to analyze municipal bonds, which serve as useful inferences for future studies in Indonesia. There are many studies on municipal bonds, but there are still few studies that map the topic of municipal bonds with a bibliometric approach with the help of R-Biblioshiny and VOSviewer to get meaningful and valuable results. That is the novelty of this research.