From Conventional to Islamic Banking: A Bibliometric Analysis in the Context of Pakistan

Abstract

This study is based on the thematic analysis of Islamic and conventional banking systems using Scopus indexed articles which are analyzed on VoS-Viewer to map the co-authorship among countries, authors, institutions, journals and keywords as well. Final analysis is done in 438 research documents after data filtration process. This study is based on PRISMA guidelines for meaningful thematic analysis. The findings of this research reveals that research on Islamic banking is rapidly growing after the financial crises of 2007 to 2009 and COVID 19 also increase this research trend in terms of sustainability, digitization and ethical considerations etc. This research trend shows a upward increase from 2010 till now. This research also highlights that it is a hot topic in both developed and developing countries i.e.: UK and Pakistan respectively. But in Pakistan there is a under known work on regulatory frame work of Islamic and conventional banking systems despite of this fact that Pakistan is a dual banking system based country. So this study gives a thematic contribution after mapping the key trends in this dual banking based environment.

Keywords: Islamic banking, Conventional banking, PRISMA, Bibliometric.