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This is a descriptive bibliometric mapping of Scopus-indexed literature on zakat management strategy, using keyword searches ('zakat', 'strategy'), Publish or Perish, and VOSviewer Study methods: Scopus + PoP + VOSviewer. The five headline results are all descriptive counts, not hypothesis tests: (1) 116 publications, fluctuating yearly and peaking at 23 (19.8%) in 2023; (2) no dominant author—Saad and Widiastuti lead with 3 papers each, and S. Javaid is most cited at 57 citations; (3) Journal of Islamic Marketing is the top outlet (5 papers); (4) dominant keywords cluster around zakat, Indonesia, Malaysia, strategy, and model; (5) fintech and Covid-19 appear as emerging themes, while governance and zakat distribution remain less discussed Core quantitative findings.

Years 2008, 2009, and 2012 are absent from Table 1—an odd zero-count pattern relative to the stated 2000-2024 search window; a full-year re-run would be needed to confirm the trend Data window inconsistency (2000 vs 2007).

Critical assessment

Strengths: The work is transparent about its descriptive design, reports specific counts rather than vague claims, and its thematic map (six clusters covering models, distribution, CSR, fintech/Covid, and SDGs/poverty) is a genuinely useful orienting map for a niche field Six thematic clusters identified. Its stated limitations (secondary data only, Indonesia-Malaysia focus, truncation of recent fintech developments) are appropriate and acknowledged.

Weaknesses: (1) The most serious internal contradiction—the claimed triangulation with expert interviews about "green waqf"—suggests copy-paste from another manuscript and is never substantiated Unsubstantiated . (2) No systematic review protocol (e.g., PRISMA-equivalent flow, inclusion/exclusion counts, search string documentation) is reported, so the 116-article corpus cannot be reproduced. (3) Scopus-only coverage excludes books, theses, and non-indexed regional outlets, likely biasing the corpus toward Indonesia-Malaysia—an observation the interpretations about geographic concentration partly conflate with genuine scholarly dominance. (4) The interpretations occasionally over-reach the data: it cannot infer causality from keyword co-occurrence, and 'no dominant author' claims are fragile given author-name disambiguation issues in Scopus. (5) The stated reference handling is thin; a two-author paper with a short reference list is appropriate for scope but limits the framing scholarship compared to established bibliometric-methodology standards such as Donthu et al.'s guidelines, which the authors cite but do not strictly follow (no thematic-content analysis or theory identification phases) Donthu et al. bibliometric guidelines.

What would change the conclusion: Re-running the exact Scopus query with a documented search string and date could show different annual counts or a different peak year; adding WoS/Google Scholar could reveal important non-Scopus literature; and fixing the search-window discrepancy could shift the 'increasing trend' narrative. Confidence in the descriptive counts (as reported) is moderate-to-high; confidence in the field-level inferences drawn from them is low.

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Study Novelty

Bibliometric mapping is a standard method; its incremental contribution is applying it to the narrow zakat-management-strategy niche, where prior reviews already partially exist (e.g., Indonesian zakat bibliometrics cited in the paper).

Scientific Quality

Descriptive counts are internally consistent, but there is a copy-paste artifact ('green waqf' triangulation), a 2000-2024 vs. 2007-2024 data-window contradiction, unreported screening exclusions, no documented search string, and interpretations that over-reach keyword co-occurrence data.

Study Generality

The findings are specific to one niche field (zakat management strategy) and dominated by Indonesia-Malaysia literature; the methodological template is generic but the insights do not generalize beyond Islamic social finance.

Study Usefulness

Useful as an orientation map for researchers entering zakat research and as an agenda-setting exercise (fintech, governance gaps), but offers no new theory, data, or testable claims beyond topic frequencies.

Study Reproducibility

No search string, no database export date details, no screening counts, no inclusion criteria; reproduction of the 116-article corpus by a third party would require guesswork.

Explanatory Depth

Pure frequency description: it reports which keywords co-occur but does not explain why themes emerge, decay, or cluster, and offers no mechanism linking publication trends to field dynamics.