Author(s)

Dexiang Mei^*, Yanyan Ye, Zengan Gao

School of Economics and Management, Southwest Jiaotong University, Chengdu, People’s Republic of China.

Based on the information visualization technology and the Web of Science database, which includes English research articles on anti-money laundering and counter-terrorism financing from 1993 to 2013, this paper explores the law and development status and research focus of international anti-money laundering research by analyzing national distribution, authors’ distribution, organization distribution, cited journals, keywords, and situation to be cited by literatures (1993- 2013) on money laundering with CiteSpace II application.

Anti-Money Laundering, Scientometrics, Hot Field

Mei, D. , Ye, Y. and Gao, Z. (2014) Literature Review of International Anti-Money Laundering Research: A Scientometrical Perspective. Open Journal of Social Sciences, 2, 111-120. doi: 10.4236/jss.2014.212016.