Debt Financing and Capital Structure Influencing the Firm’s Financial Performance: A Bibliometric Analysis

Abstract

Debt financing plays a prominent role in deciding future growth and the earning capacity of any company. Debt financing is a part of capital structure; hence both terms are interlinked with each other. The main aim of this study is to provide widespread view of previous studies associated with debt financing and capital structure. For this purpose, a Bibliometric analysis is performed with the aid of Bibliometrix Library along with BiblioShiny tools in R Studio software. Web of Science is elected as main database consisting data of 21 years from 2002-2022, gathered by using keywords “debt financing”, “capital structure”, “financial leverage”, “financial performance” and “profitability”. USA and China has been found as top contributing countries. Most of the authors belong to the USA, China, Canada, UK etc. Texas Christian University from United Statusis discovered as most active institute in writing documents/articles related to this field.