Critical Analysis of the Publication Process of Articles in the Finance in the COVID-19 Pandemic in Iran: A Bibliometric Analysis

Financial scholars around the world have published a large number of articles on the financial effects of the COVID-19 pandemic crisis on various sectors of the economy. This article is a critical analysis of the process of publishing articles in this field in Iran.

This applied study was conducted based on bibliometrics. The statistical population of the study included all articles published in the financial journals approved by the Ministry of Science, Research and Technology in the financial field of the coronavirus pandemic in Iran from February 2020 to January 2023. The research data were also collected using a checklist and analyzed using Excel software.

While the crisis of COVID-19 provided researchers with many and varied study opportunities in the financial field of COVID-19 pandemic, the results of this study showed that Iranian researchers were able to publish only seven articles in this field in 11 scientific journals approved by the Ministry of Science, Research and Technology in the educational discipline of finance with different trends in Iran.

Iranian universities have failed to publish articles related to the financial field of COVID-19 pandemic, and research in this field has been limited to a few specific issues and other important financial topics have been ignored.