Dataset for How far have we come and where should we go after 30+ years of research on Africa’s emerging equity markets?

This dataset is used to perform a systematic literature review and a bibliometric network analysis of studies on African financial markets from 1992 to 2021. We began by identifying the appropriate string of keywords. We identified and agreed to use the following keywords string for the search: “African market”, African stock markets”, African equity markets”, “African capital market”, “African financial market”, “African foreign exchange market”, “African exchange market”, “common stocks” and “African”. These keywords were searched in the Title, Abstract or Keywords (TAK) functionality of Scopus and they resulted in 321 hits as of March 10, 2022. We then apply two main quality thresholds, namely, subject area and language restrictions. We restricted the subject area to “Economics and Finance”, while we set the language to “English”. As we are interested in knowing the trajectory of the 30-year literature on African financial markets, we set limit on the “end date” to 2021 as well as “document type” to journal articles. These restrictions resulted in 198 relevant articles for download for the bibliometric analysis.

本数据集用于开展1992年至2021年间非洲金融市场相关研究的系统文献综述与文献计量网络分析。研究伊始，我们首先确定了合适的关键词组合，最终确定并采用如下关键词串进行检索：“非洲市场（African market）”、“非洲股票市场（African stock markets）”、“非洲权益市场（African equity markets）”、“非洲资本市场（African capital market）”、“非洲金融市场（African financial market）”、“非洲外汇市场（African foreign exchange market）”、“非洲交易所市场（African exchange market）”、“普通股（common stocks）”以及“非洲（African）”。我们在Scopus数据库的标题、摘要或关键词（以下简称TAK）检索字段中执行上述关键词检索，截至2022年3月10日共得到321条检索结果。随后我们设置了两项主要的质量筛选阈值，即学科领域与语言限制：将学科领域限定为“经济学与金融学”，语言限定为“英语”。鉴于我们旨在梳理非洲金融市场领域30年研究文献的发展脉络，我们同时将检索截止日期设为2021年，并将文献类型限定为期刊论文。经过上述筛选流程后，共得到198篇可用于文献计量分析的相关文章以供下载。