Research on sustainability reporting is becoming increasingly important. Despite the growing body of literature on sustainability reporting, little is known about its past trends and how research areas might evolve in the future. Recognizing and understanding the research trend related to sustainability reporting will enable future researchers to plan and conduct research that is of high interest and impact in terms of both readership and citations. This study examines a large body of literature on environmental, social, and governance (ESG) and sustainability reporting over the last 24 years (1998–2022). The study used bibliometric analysis using VOSviewer software to perform publication trends, citation analysis, and keyword mapping analysis. Data for the analysis was extracted from the online database Scopus on 24 April 2022. Uniquely, the study also employed the Gephi technique, version 0.9.5 of bibliometric analysis, to uncover past ESG research trends and sustainability reports and predict how the content of these study areas will evolve in the future. Based on a sample size of 358 articles, most publications were published in English and in open-access journals. The resultant outcomes of the Gephi technique show that the ESG and sustainability reports can be merged into four clusters. The first cluster points out that corporate social responsibility (CSR) and sustainability reporting now have a stronger social focus as they focus on benefits and environmental impacts. The second cluster focuses on benefits and corporate social responsibility rewards. The third cluster emphasizes the cost of equity and ESG disclosure. Finally, the fourth cluster emphasizes the cost of capital and governance in CSR. The research cluster’s discovery sheds light for future researchers in planning and designing future research focuses.

Personal retirement planning is not a mandatory exercise; it is a voluntary preparation for the future. Regrettably, many are unprepared for this. Most people believe retirement planning is necessary just when they are approaching retirement or are too young to consider their retirement years. As such, retirement isn't only about relaxing in the "golden years." Instead, people must plan and invest for retirement to be financially secure during those years. This study will use bibliometric analysis to overview the published scientific literature on retirement planning. The Scopus database compiled all available retirement planning literature. The keyword search yielded 108 documents that were filtered out. In peerreviewed journals or conference proceedings, all publications were authored in English. Most of these papers were in the subjects of Economics, Econometrics and Finance, Business, Management, Accounting, and Social Sciences. The bibliometric study summarises the literature on retirement planning and identifies future research opportunities.

Globally, governments and researchers alike are committed to educating people about financial literacy/knowledge primarily through financial education as a platform. However, frequent changes in the domain have impeded progress toward elevating overall financial literacy across the population. As such, this study will examine the overall development to gain valuable insight. This study used bibliographic analysis to examine 476 selected publications from 1992 to early 2021 (28 years). The findings indicate an upward trend that is expected to continue in the coming years. Additionally, we conducted citation analysis using Harzing's Publish and Perish by utilising VOSviewer for data visualisation. The findings emphasised the importance of financial literacy/knowledge, financial education, and human and educational development. Most publications are produced in the United States, and financial literacy/knowledge and financial education continue to be the domain's intellectual structure. Additionally, Lusardi is one of the domain's most influential scholars, owing to her high-quality work. Our study makes extensive use of Scopus as a single database and focuses exclusively on document titles that precisely match our specific keywords. Based on observations, this study anticipates the emergence of new contributions and findings in the future while also serving as a primary reference.

The significance of investment decisions has increased the field's value among, particularly for investors and researchers. In this study, our review attempts to map trends and development of investment decision studies in the past, present and potential new knowledge or significant gaps in the literature for future references by utilizing bibliometric analysis. This study investigated a total of 3,894 papers retrieved from the Scopus database between 1990 and August 2021. The mapping revealed an upward trend of publications and is expected to continue in the next few years. Simultaneously, analysis based on Harzing's Publish and Perish and VOSviewer has demonstrated the significant increase of investment decisions studies as a result of emerging themes, mostly driven by technology advancement and social movement. Financial reporting and environmental, social, and governance (ESG) issues have been increasingly popular among researchers in recent years. Our mapping exposes the popularity of this topic among past, current and future researchers. As a result, this study's main value is the expansion of knowledge in investment decisions and as foundation for future academic reference. Stakeholders such as policymakers, industry players including scholars should explore potential areas in investment decision studies that will benefit the public as a whole.

Financial technology has emerged as a game-changer to complement and enhance how the Millennial and Generation Z conduct transactions. Responding to calls of prior research, this study used the unified theory of acceptance and use of technology (UTAUT) to understand how performance expectancy and effort expectancy factors influence consumers' intention to use financial technology. Performance expectancy (PE) and effort expectancy (EE) were investigated as exogenous variables towards the intention to use financial technology (FinTech) that act as endogenous variables in this study. The authors collected 284 Millennial and Generation Z respondents and analysed the data using PLS-SEM. The result from the study's structural model suggested that FinTech continuance use intention was dependent on performance expectancy and effort expectancy on engaging with young vibrant consumers and establishing attractive FinTech elements. In addition, Millennial and Generation Z consumers with a high-performance expectancy were found to emphasize FinTech components in the engagement process.