Mapping The Landscape Of Investor Psychology: A Bibliometric Analysis Of Key Psychological Bias

Abstract

Purpose- exploration of investor’s psychology is a prolific among researchers. Despite of the existing studies on the investor’s psychology and their decisions, the gaps still exists in understanding how investor’s behaviour stimulates these decisions. This research paper aims to map the trends of research through trends of publication of overconfidence and herding behaviour of retail investor. Secondly, this research aims to categorise existing and emerging themes of research. Finally, this research will suggest avenues of research on investor’s behaviour affected with herding and overconfidence through signifying the gaps in the existing research.

Design- the study has utilises bibliometric analysis to identify the research gaps. Furthermore, biblioshny tool is employed to check the trends of publication, countries, regions, affiliations, journal quality, citations, author influence, high frequency words, and thematic mapping.  Another tool vosviewer is used for bibliographic coupling, and geographical. To felicitate the research data was collected through scopus database, spanning from 1992 to 2024, it encompasses 122 research papers.

Findings- the study reports an upward trend in the research publication on mapping investor’s psychological bias. Furthermore, the research acknowledges the emerging trends due to evolution of fintech.