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Abstract
This paper presents a comprehensive bibliometric review of research on green finance and the banking sector with special emphasis on public sector banks. The study synthesizes 800 Scopus-indexed journal articles published between 2000 and 2024 and employs Biblioshiny for performance analysis, science mapping, and thematic evolution. Key findings reveal rapid growth in scholarly output after 2015, with dominant themes including ESG integration, green credit, fintech-enabled green finance, and climate-risk regulation. China, the United Kingdom, and India are central contributors, while regions such as Africa and Latin America remain underrepresented. The study identifies five major gaps: limited attention to public sector banks, geographic imbalance, scarcity of longitudinal studies, thematic isolation of green fintech, and limited use of behavioural frameworks. Based on these results, the paper proposes a future research agenda and policy recommendations to strengthen the institutional, methodological, and geographic breadth of green finance scholarship.