Moving Towards Sustainable Connectivity: Bibliometric Analysis of IoT-Enabled Financial Sustainability Trends

The Internet of Things (IoT) is one of the biggest technical advances in recent years, improving our lives in many different ways. One important area of its application is sustainable development. Additionally, funds’ availability is as crucial for sustainable development as IoT. The relationship between technological advancements like big data, blockchain, artificial intelligence (AI), mobile platforms, and the IoT with finance is referred to as “digital finance”. The financial system has been digitalized for a while now. The capacity to quickly, accurately, affordably, and conveniently access vast amounts of complex data related to investments and sustainability consequences accelerates transparency and helps public institutions monitor the regulatory aspects of sustainable development. This study aims to investigate the characteristics of prior studies to comprehend the most recent developments in IoT and sustainable finance. A bibliometric analysis is performed on 306 research publications retrieved from the Scopus database and published between 2011 and 2024. Software tools like VOS-Viewer and Biblioshiny with R Studio are used for the analysis. The study is capable to summarise the traits and patterns of IoT and sustainable finance research. Moreover, the research identifies well-known authors, journals, and institutions and finds the research articles with the highest citation counts and the fastest-growing theme of the domain. This paper offers insightful recommendations to academicians for their future research.