Twenty-five years of the Journal of Corporate Finance: A scientometric analysis

The Journal of Corporate Finance (JCF) is a highly regarded academic journal specializing in corporate finance. The journal celebrated its silver jubilee year in 2018. We use scientometrics to analyze the journal's impact, prominent topics, most frequent authors, and their affiliated institutions and countries. Using network analysis, we group JCF publications into nine main clusters. Our study depicts the bibliographic couplings of authors and their affiliated institutions and countries, co-citations of journals, and co-occurrences of the authors' specified keywords. Using text mining techniques, we also present the major content of JCF titles, keywords, or abstracts in the form of word clouds.

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The study utilizes scientometrics and network analysis techniques to analyze the impact, prominent topics, authors and their affiliated institutions and countries of the Journal of Corporate Finance. By studying bibliographic couplings, co-citations and co-occurrences, the research depicts the characteristics of JCF, and presents the major content using word clouds.