Research Trajectories on the Link Between Sovereign Debt and Financial Stability: A Bibliometric Analysis of Trends

This study provides a bibliometric analysis of the evolution, performance and scientific mapping of research on the link between sovereign debt and financial stability over the period 2000-2025. Filling a gap in the literature, it is, to our knowledge, the first to spe-cifically explore this field of financial macroeconomics using a bibliometric method. Based on a corpus of 2,969 articles from the Scopus Elsevier database after data harmonization, the descriptive analysis highlights annual output and the number of citations. The performance study then examines the contribution of the most influential sources, authors, documents and countries. The results reveal modest output before 2010, followed by an explosion since the European debt crisis in 2012, with activity peaking in 2023. Scientific mapping shows that this constantly evolving field of research is structured around central concepts such as sovereign debt, systemic risk and contagion. It is thus adapting to new crisis contexts and enriching itself with advanced quantitative methods to better map the vulnerabilities of an increasingly interconnected global financial system.