Housing market and financial crisis: An analysis of bibliometric from 1997 to 2021

This study presents a bibliometric analysis of the publications on housing market and financial crisis research from the Scopus database during the period of 1997 to 2021. Based on the keywords used, which are related to housing market and financial crisis in the article title, the study retrieved 1,231 documents for further analysis using various tools. This study used Microsoft Excel to conduct the frequency analysis, VOSviewer for data visualization, and Harzing’s Publish or Perish for citation metrics and analysis. This study reports the results using standard bibliometric indicators such as the growth of publications, authorship patterns, collaboration, and prolific authors, country contribution, most active institutions, preferred journals, and top-cited articles. Based from the findings, there is a continuous growth of publications on housing market and financial crisis research for 24 years since 1997. United State was the largest contributor to housing market and financial crisis research, followed by the United Kingdom. The International Journal of Urban and Regional Research published the most number of publications related to housing market and financial crisis research. The finding of this study enable government, policy makers and researchers to analyze the research trend on housing market and financial crisis by using bibliometric analysis.