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Amit Mishra, Vibhuti Tripathi: From Mobile Trading to Intelligent Investing:
A Bibliometric and Thematic Review of AI-Driven Financial Investments

RQ2: Which are the most influential countries, journals, articles and authors that have
contributed towards literature of mobile stock trading applications in Investment
decisions?
RQ3: What are the influential research themes in this domain?
RQ4: What is the future research agenda of Artificial Intelligence-Enabled Mobile
Stock Trading Applications for Investment Decisions.

2. RESEARCH METHODOLOGY
The current study has adopted the bibliometric and thematic analysis to structure the
existing knowledge and analyze the field of mobile trading applications in Investment
decisions as previous studies also incorporated these techniques to synthesized the
literature in different domains (Ahuja et al., 2025; Bala et al., 2025; Dhingra et al.,
2024; Horani et al., 2025; Jain et al., 2022). To perform the transparent literature
review, this study have followed the approach provided by the (Khanra, Dhir, &
Mäntymäki, 2020; Khanra, Dhir, Islam, et al., 2020), which includes three stages:
scanning, curating and reporting the sample.

2.1 Scanning Phase
To perform this study, an initial exploration of relevant keywords related to mobile
trading adoption for investment was carried out using the Google Scholar database. Based
on the preliminary examination of the existing literature, key words to this domain are
investing, trading, mobile based trading/investing, retail investment, fintech, digital
investment, AI based mobile trading application. Using these keywords, a comprehensive
search string was developed to ensure the broader aspect of this domain.

Title: “mobile stock trading” OR “retail investment” OR “mobile retail investment”
OR “mobile investing” OR “mobile stock trading” OR “mobile equity trading” OR
“trading app” OR “stock trading application” OR “share trading application” OR
“investment application” OR “mobile investment application” OR “mobile
investment platform” OR “fintech trading app” OR “fintech investment platform” OR
“wealthtech” OR “digital investment service” OR “mobile brokerage application” OR
“online brokerage application” OR “mobile finance application” OR “automated
investment service” OR “algorithmic investment platform” OR “AI-driven trading”
OR “agentic AI” OR “service Robot*” OR “social robot*” OR “robo advisor*” OR
“artificial Intelligence*” OR “AI chatbot*” OR “chatbot*” OR “conversational AI”
And
Title: "investing" OR "stock trad*" OR "investment*"
The search query was performed in March 2026 using the Scopus Database to retrieve
the publications within this domain. The Scopus database has been selected due to the
wide coverage of publications of multidisciplinary research. Further, Scopus database

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