Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs): A Bibliometric Approach to Islamic Microfinance Improvement as an Alternative to Reducing Poverty

Abstract

This study attempts to conduct a literature review on research on sustainable microfinance development published in Scopus-indexed journals. This study uses descriptive statistical analysis on 319 papers from national and international journals on microfinance and sustainable development. All samples of publications were published between 1996 and 2022. The data is then processed and analysed using the VOSviewer application programme to produce a bibliometric visualisation map for the long-term development of microfinance research. The findings of this bibliometric mapping study depict a map of research advancement in the field of sustainable microfinance development. This study also discovered a strong link between microfinance for sustainable development and the SDGs' main goal of eradicating poverty and promoting prosperity for all people of all ages worldwide. This study identifies new and intriguing key phrases for future studies