Financial inclusion has a key role to play in economic development, attainment of various Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs) including poverty alleviation, health, education, and reducing inequalities. It is considered as a quasi-public good and governments across the globe have been working affirmative in their efforts towards enhancing availability, access, affordability and awareness of adequate financial services for the masses. Last two decades have witnessed exponential growth in this area of research with primary efforts towards micro finance to current focus on optimising technology driven benefit. This article intends to conduct a bibliometric analysis of the research undertaken till date to lay a foundation of work done and future scope of work. The study included a total of 4,421 articles published from 1998 till date extracted from the Scopus database. VOS viewer software version 1.6.20 and excel were used to analyse the prominent subject areas, top authors, publications, titles, countries and keywords based on citations. Economics, Econometrics and Finance’, ‘Social sciences’ and ‘Business, Management and Accounting’ collectively count for two-thirds of publications in this area. USA and UK are leading in terms of citations though India is leading in terms of number of publications. Further overlay analysis of most productive countries and author keywords has also been presented. The study concludes that there is strong positive momentum in efforts towards a greater degree of financial inclusion.

KEYWORDS: Financial Inclusion, Bibliometric Analysis, Literature Review.