Purpose

This paper provides a comprehensive review of the influential and intellectual aspects of the literature on the Gulf Cooperation Council (GCC) region's banking activities.

Design/methodology/approach

This study undertakes a bibliometric meta-analysis review of the GCC region banking literature, covering 199 articles published between 2004 and 2022, extracted from the Web of Science (WoS) database, followed by a content analysis of highly cited papers.

Findings

This paper identifies the influential aspects of the GCC region banking literature in terms of journals, articles, authors, universities and countries. The paper also identifies and discusses five major research clusters: (1) bank efficiency; (2) corporate governance (CG) and disclosure; (3) performance and risk-taking; (4) systemic risk, bank stability and risk spillovers and (5) intellectual capital (IC). Finally, it identifies gaps in the literature and highlights some important research issues that provide directions for future research.

Research limitations/implications

This paper is limited to the articles indexed in the WoS database and written in English. Though the WoS database encompasses a wide range of multidisciplinary journals, there is a chance that some relevant articles are not included in the WoS database or written in another language.

Practical implications

This study provides regulators, practitioners and academics with valuable insight and an in-depth understanding of the banking system of the GCC region.

Originality/value

To the best of the authors' knowledge, this is the first review paper on GCC region banking literature. This study provides regulators, practitioners and academics with valuable insight and an in-depth understanding of the banking system of the GCC region.

中文翻译：

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海湾合作委员会地区的银行业研究和未来研究议程——文献计量检查

 目的

本文对海湾合作委员会 (GCC) 地区银行活动文献的影响力和知识方面进行了全面回顾。

设计/方法论/途径

本研究对海湾合作委员会地区银行文献进行了文献计量荟萃分析，涵盖 2004 年至 2022 年间发表的 199 篇文章，这些文章摘自 Web of Science (WoS) 数据库，随后对高被引论文进行内容分析。

 发现

本文从期刊、文章、作者、大学和国家方面确定了海湾合作委员会地区银行文献的影响力。本文还确定并讨论了五个主要研究集群：（1）银行效率； (2) 公司治理（CG）和披露； （三）业绩和风险承担； (4) 系统性风险、银行稳定性和风险溢出；(5) 智力资本 (IC)。最后，它确定了文献中的空白，并强调了一些重要的研究问题，为未来的研究提供了方向。

研究局限性/影响

本文仅限于 WoS 数据库索引的且以英文撰写的文章。尽管 WoS 数据库包含广泛的多学科期刊，但某些相关文章可能未包含在 WoS 数据库中或以其他语言撰写。

 实际影响

这项研究为监管者、从业者和学者提供了宝贵的见解和对海湾合作委员会地区银行体系的深入了解。

 原创性/价值

据作者所知，这是第一篇关于海湾合作委员会地区银行文献的综述论文。这项研究为监管者、从业者和学者提供了宝贵的见解和对海湾合作委员会地区银行体系的深入了解。