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Artificial Intelligence Techniques for Financial Fraud Detection: A Bibliometric Analysis of Scientific Development and Future Directions

This study examines the development and intellectual structure of artificial intelligence (AI)-based financial fraud detection through a bibliometric analysis of 2200 Scopus- and Web of Science-indexed journal articles published between 1992 and 2026. The literature has expanded rapidly, with 89.6% of publications appearing since 2018 and an annual growth rate of 29.4%. Research is concentrated in Computer Science and Engineering, whereas Business and Economics account for 9.2% of classified publications. Credit…

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Artificial Intelligence Techniques for Financial Fraud Detection: A Bibliometric Analysis of Scientific Development and Future Directions
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In brief

The study analyzed 2200 journal articles indexed in Scopus and Web of Science from 1992 to 2026. It found that most of the work appeared after 2018, with an annual growth rate of 29.4%, and that credit card and payment fraud is the largest research domain.

The mapping shows where scholarly attention on AI fraud detection is concentrated and which methods dominate. It describes the research literature, not how well these systems detect fraud in practice, so real-world effectiveness is not established by the text.

Main points

  1. The dataset covers 2200 Scopus- and Web of Science-indexed articles published between 1992 and 2026.
  2. Credit card and payment fraud accounts for 32.0% of research, ahead of banking, loan and transaction fraud at 14.3%.
  3. Insurance fraud makes up 12.2% and accounting and financial statement fraud 9.9% of the literature.
  4. Neural networks and deep learning, ensemble and boosting methods, and classical supervised classifiers are the dominant method families.
  5. Of authors, 88.9% contributed only a single publication.

The gain

A review of 2200 indexed articles shows AI fraud-detection research expanding quickly and moving toward deep learning, ensemble methods, graph neural networks and explainable AI.

The rundown

Research is concentrated in Computer Science and Engineering, while Business and Economics account for 9.2% of classified publications. This suggests the field is driven mainly by technical disciplines.

Science mapping shows the intellectual structure remains strongly centered on payment fraud, while accounting and insurance fraud form more distinct research fronts. International collaboration varies considerably across leading countries.

The authors combined performance analysis, science mapping, fraud-domain classification, bibliometric laws and publication-growth analysis to assess the field's development and emerging directions.

Sources

  1. Peer-reviewedJournal of Risk and Financial Management2026-10-16

The debate