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. 2021 Dec 4;7(12):e08551.
doi: 10.1016/j.heliyon.2021.e08551. eCollection 2021 Dec.

The development of internet financial reporting publications: A concise of bibliometric analysis

Yunika Murdayanti  1 , Mohd Noor Azli Ali Khan  1
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The development of internet financial reporting publications: A concise of bibliometric analysis

Yunika Murdayanti et al. Heliyon. .

Abstract

This paper identifies the main areas and the development of the field of internet financial reporting publications and to suggest future research directions. Internet use for corporate financial reporting represents a voluntary approach to consolidate printed sustainability reports which have increasingly been published by large companies in recent years. Using a bibliometric analysis, this paper examined a sample of 246 studies from Web of Science, Scopus, Emerald, Springer, Proquest, Ebsco, and Science Direct databases and only accepted articles and review paper were published in open access to identify research activity on internet financial reporting between 1998 until 2020. This review provides the most influential articles and authors based on their citations and publications as well as their importance within the network through network visualization, overlay visualization, and density visualization. The co-authorship analysis shows 208 authors who have connected each other, the co-organization analysis resulted 76 organizations which write article about internet financial reporting and co-occurrence analysis of keywords, the results found that 669 keywords divided into 11 clusters. The analysis which uses bibliometric analysis develops the status of internet financial reporting, this is a research field in a precise way through the visualization of emerging trend and currently focused on topics. The results of analysis also have recommended some variables which can be used in further research, and it is very helpful to find knowledge basis and detect the future research directions in this area.

Keywords: Bibliometric analysis; Internet financial reporting; VOSviewer.

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The authors declare no conflict of interest.

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Process of collecting data of internet financial reporting publications.
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Numbers of IFR publication.
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Author's network.
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Overlay visualization organization.
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Network visualization in internet financial reporting publications.
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Overlay visualization in IFR publications.
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Density visualization in IFR publications.
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Map of literature review.
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