The efficiency of Islamic Banking: Bibliometric Analysis

Because interest-free financing is so important in Islamic banking, practitioners have created an innovative environment in which an alternative to interest is expected. As a result, the title of this study is bibliometric analysis of the efficiency Islamic banking, and the method used for this study is bibliometric analysis. The main reason for choosing this phrase is that it is relevant to the current study topic of Islamic banking and finance. There are several research objectives that have been identified that have led to this research, which are to investigate the current trend and structure of research on efficiency in the Islamic banking industry, to identify the most studied themes within the Islamic banking efficiency literature, and to determine how far prior research has discovered about the level of efficiency in the Islamic banking industry worldwide. This analysis employs the method of document analysis by gathering data from previous studies that are bibliometric. Because we conduct bibliometric research, the framework of methods used to obtain the article is included among the research questions, research objectives, and analysis techniques. We used Scopus, a multidisciplinary database suitable for information systems (IS) researchers, to find past research articles on the efficiency of Islamic banking. We chose two citations: co-occurrence and co-citation. Researchers use co-occurrence to find the most frequently used keywords in articles about the efficiency of Islamic banking, and o-citation is the frequency of using articles about the efficiency of Islamic banking in the top 16 countries. The innovation aspect of Islamic banking products or technologies plays an important role in improving the efficiency of Islamic banking.