Research Progress and Prospect of County-wide Finance in China between 1991 and 2013 Based on Bibliometric Method.

In order to visually and comprehensively grasp scientific research progress of the county-wide finance in China, and explore new breakthrough point of county-wide finance studies, this paper took China National Knowledge Infrastructure (CNKI) database as research platform and made a bibliometrical study of literature indexed in CNKI between 1991 and 2013 by advanced search method. Results indicate that relevant researches take on the trend of firstly increasing then decreasing and finally steady; research hot spots mainly focus on county-wide finance and county-wide economy, county-wide inclusive finance, and county-wide finance exclusion. Based on literature review, it found subject research of county-wide finance and county-wide economic issue has become a relatively mature issue. The extension research of county-wide finance exclusion and inclusive finance is devoted to remove finance exclusion. This research is a blind spot in this field and may become a breakthrough point of stimulating re-growth of county-wide finance researches. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]