Table 3 Exclusion criteria

EC1 – Relevance criterion

Papers that do not focus on Fintech

EC2 – Availability criterion

Full text is not available, and the abstract does not provide enough information

EC3 – Impact criterion

Journal articles that are not ranked in SCImago and not in Scopus database or Web of Science Master Journal List

Conference papers that are not ranked in SCImago, or not in Scopus database, Web of Science List, CORE conference list, ACM conference, or IEEE conference

EC4 – Recycling criterion

Articles that contain excessive recycled content by the same authors

EC5 – Plagiarism criterion

Articles that contain excessive copied content from other sources

EC6 – Year to date criterion

Articles published later than 31 December 2021