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FinTech, Crowdfunding, Digital Finance

FinTech, Crowdfunding, Digital Finance is a research topic within Management Information Systems. Science Explorer counts 31k research works in it since 1952. 10.2% of them reached the world's top 10% most cited for their field and year.

This cluster of papers explores the dynamics of crowdfunding, fintech, and peer-to-peer lending, focusing on investment decisions, social capital, credit risk assessment, and the impact of financial innovation on online platforms. It also delves into the regulatory implications of these emerging financial models.

  • Crowdfunding
  • Fintech
  • Peer-to-Peer Lending
  • Investment Decisions
  • Social Capital
  • Entrepreneurship
  • Credit Risk Assessment
  • Financial Innovation
  • Online Platforms
  • Regulatory Impact
Research works
31k
fractional, since 1952
In the world top 10%
3.2k
per year above
Top-10% rate
10.2%
share of its works in the world top 10%
Growth, 2018-21 → 2022-25
+108%
the tick is no change
Largest producer
Indonesia
26% of the 10 largest, 2022-now
FinTech, Crowdfunding, Digital Finance

Which countries lead FinTech, Crowdfunding, Digital Finance research?

By volume, Indonesia and India publish the most (3k and 2.2k works in 2022-now).

By volume, 2022-now

  1. 1 Indonesia 3k works
  2. 2 India 2.2k works
  3. 3 China 2.2k works
  4. 4 United States 1.8k works
  5. 5 United Kingdom 595 works
  6. 6 Malaysia 553 works
  7. 7 Germany 343 works
  8. 8 Australia 323 works
  9. 9 Italy 290 works
  10. 10 Nigeria 259 works

How concentrated that is

The same countries as shares of everything the list above accounts for. A node where two countries do two thirds of the work and one spread evenly across twelve read alike as a ranking and not at all alike here.

Indonesia: 25.7%India: 19.1%China: 19.1%United States: 15.6%6 others listed: 20.4%26%largest
Indonesia2,974 · 25.7%India2,215 · 19.1%China2,212 · 19.1%United States1,811 · 15.6%6 others listed2,363 · 20.4%

Shares of the rows listed above, not of the whole node.

Which institutions lead FinTech, Crowdfunding, Digital Finance research?

By volume in 2022-now, Binus University publishes the most FinTech, Crowdfunding, Digital Finance research, followed by Government of Western Australia and University of Indonesia.

By volume, 2022-now

  1. 1 Binus UniversityIndonesia 136 works
  2. 2 Government of Western AustraliaAustralia 81 works
  3. 3 University of IndonesiaIndonesia 80 works
  4. 4 Universiti Teknologi MARAMalaysia 64 works
  5. 5 Telkom UniversityIndonesia 62 works
  6. 6 Symbiosis International UniversityIndia 61 works
  7. 7 Bandung Institute of TechnologyIndonesia 58 works
  8. 8 Christ UniversityIndia 56 works
  9. 9 University of BrawijayaIndonesia 54 works
  10. 10 Universitas Patria ArthaIndonesia 53 works

Who are the leading researchers in FinTech, Crowdfunding, Digital Finance?

The most-cited researchers publishing on FinTech, Crowdfunding, Digital Finance include David F. Larcker.

  1. 1 David F. Larcker United States 197k citations

Ranked by citations received across their whole record, among researchers with at least three works on this topic.

What are the most cited papers in FinTech, Crowdfunding, Digital Finance?

The most cited paper in FinTech, Crowdfunding, Digital Finance is "Open Innovation: The New Imperative for Creating and Profiting from Technology" (Henry W. Chesbrough, 2003), with 9,417 citations. Next come "Opinion Paper: “So what if ChatGPT wrote it?” Multidisciplinary perspectives on opportunities, challenges and implications of generative conversational AI for research, practice and policy" (4,365) and "The dynamics of crowdfunding: An exploratory study" (4,175).

Most cited papers
#PaperReleasedCitations
1 Open Innovation: The New Imperative for Creating and Profiting from Technology Henry W. Chesbrough Mar 2003 9,417
2 Opinion Paper: “So what if ChatGPT wrote it?” Multidisciplinary perspectives on opportunities, challenges and implications of generative conversational AI for research, practice and policy Yogesh Kumar Dwivedi et al. · International Journal of Information Management Open access 11 Mar 2023 4,365
3 The dynamics of crowdfunding: An exploratory study Ethan Mollick · Journal of Business Venturing Open access 13 Aug 2013 4,175
4 Digital Entrepreneurship: Toward a Digital Technology Perspective of Entrepreneurship Satish Nambisan · Entrepreneurship Theory and Practice 13 Oct 2016 2,748
5 Crowdfunding: Tapping the right crowd Paul Belleflamme, Thomas Andrew Lambert, Armin Schwienbacher · Journal of Business Venturing Open access 29 Sep 2013 2,721
All 99 most cited papers, with filters and sorting

Where is FinTech, Crowdfunding, Digital Finance research done?

The largest centres of FinTech, Crowdfunding, Digital Finance research in 2022-now are Jakarta (Indonesia), Beijing (China), Bandung (Indonesia) and Surabaya (Indonesia). Among places with at least 20 works in it, it is an unusually large share of all research in Jitra and Bengbu.

Largest cities, 2022-now

  1. 1 JakartaIndonesia 496 works
  2. 2 BeijingChina 378 works
  3. 3 BandungIndonesia 289 works
  4. 4 SurabayaIndonesia 209 works
  5. 5 BengaluruIndia 184 works
  6. 6 LondonUnited Kingdom 179 works
  7. 7 YogyakartaIndonesia 162 works
  8. 8 ShanghaiChina 159 works
  9. 9 PuneIndia 152 works
  10. 10 Kuala LumpurMalaysia 151 works

Where it is the local speciality

  1. JitraMY · 40.3 works14×
  2. BengbuCN · 40.0 works9.3×
← less than its size predicts1×more →

Location quotient: how much more of its research is in FinTech, Crowdfunding, Digital Finance than the world average.

See FinTech, Crowdfunding, Digital Finance on the map

Where is the best place to study FinTech, Crowdfunding, Digital Finance?

Among universities, judged by research, Jadara University, University of Jordan and Florida Atlantic University score highest, combining excellence, specialisation, size, growth and international reach. Research strength is one signal when choosing where to study; it does not measure teaching.

0%20%40%60%mean 32.55%fractional works in this field (log) →share of work in the world top 10% →Jadara UniversityUniversity of JordanFlorida Atlantic Uni…Middle East University
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One dot per university in the first ten of the table below, at the default weights. The upper left is the interesting corner: small places doing unusually strong work.

Excellenceshare of its work in the world top 10%, 2022-now and all time averaged
40%
Specialisationhow much of its work is in this field, counted up to 10× the world share
10%
Sizeits output in this field, on a log scale
30%
Growthoutput growth, counted from -20% to +20%
10%
Internationalshare of its work with a co-author abroad
10%
Each slider sets a weight; the share it gets of the score is beside it.
#UniversityScoreTop 10%SpecialisationWorksGrowth
1Jadara UniversityJordan 61.052.6%13.9×8 -
2University of JordanJordan 57.047.8%2.1×9 +278.2%
3Florida Atlantic UniversityUnited States 55.837.5%6.9×19 +58.7%
4Middle East UniversityJordan 54.937.1%20.4×12 -
5University of Business and TechnologySaudi Arabia 54.823.0%12.0×17 +475.0%
6University of JohannesburgSouth Africa 54.418.1%5.1×47 +359.9%
7Abu Dhabi UniversityUnited Arab Emirates 53.733.3%9.7×11 +475.7%
8Binus UniversityIndonesia 53.12.7%16.8×136 +209.3%
9Nanjing University of Finance and EconomicsChina 52.739.0%7.9×15 +412.4%
10Al-Zaytoonah University of JordanJordan 52.034.4%16.4×14 -

Universities only. The score blends excellence (40%), size (30%), specialisation (10%), growth (10%), international reach (10%), 2022-now; growth compares 2018-21 with 2022-25 and counts up to +20%, since a jump from a small base is mostly noise.

Every institution in FinTech, Crowdfunding, Digital Finance, country by country

Is FinTech, Crowdfunding, Digital Finance research growing?

Output in 2022-2025 was 108% higher than in 2018-2021, peaking in 2025. The fastest-growing topics are FinTech, Crowdfunding, Digital Finance.

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The same series as a ribbon: one cell per year, darker for more. The line above answers how much; this answers when.

Its share of all research

Growing output can still be a shrinking share: all of science grows. This is FinTech, Crowdfunding, Digital Finance as a percentage of every work published that year, 0.078% in 2024.

still counting0.050%0.10%FinTech, Crowdfunding, Digital Finance0.083% in 202519801990200020102020

Fractional works of FinTech, Crowdfunding, Digital Finance over all fractional works that year. How the balance of science has shifted.

How much of it reaches the world top 10%

Year by year.

still counting5%10%15%FinTech, Crowdfunding, Digital Finance10.2% in 202520102020

Of each year's works in it, the share that reached the world's 10% most cited for their field and year. A field is the world for its own topics, so there is no other line to hold it against.

Which topics inside it are moving

Growth and decline on one axis around a shared zero. Two lists side by side hide the thing that matters: whether the growth dwarfs the decline, or the other way round.

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