<![CDATA[This study aims to map publication growth, scientific impact, leading contributors, conceptual structure, and thematic evolution in fraud and corporate governance research. A bibliometric analysis was conducted on 500 journal articles indexed in Dimensions and published between 2021 and 2026. The metadata were analysed using RStudio and the bibliometrix package through annual scientific production, citation, source, author, affiliation, country, influential document, keyword co-occurrence, thematic map, and thematic evolution analyses. The results show that annual publications increased from 57 articles in 2021 to a temporary peak of 123 articles in 2024. Earlier publications received higher average citations because of their longer citation windows. PLOS ONE and Heliyon were the most productive sources, Wang Y and Zhang Y were the most productive author names and China made the largest national contribution. However, the dominance of multidisciplinary and environmental journals among the most productive sources suggests that the corpus retrieved is broader than the traditional accounting, finance and corporate governance outlets. This condition may influence the interpretation of thematic patterns, indicating that the results should be interpreted as representing a wider interdisciplinary corpus rather than a narrowly specialised fraud–corporate governance literature. The conceptual structure connects investment, organisational behaviour, auditing, risk management, and technology, while fraud is associated with financial auditing, artificial intelligence, and neural networks. However, corporate governance has not yet emerged as a central theme, while the thematic evolution remains influenced by environmental and health-related issues. Future research should integrate governance mechanisms with artificial intelligence, machine learning, digital auditing, and fraud early-warning systems, while expanding cross-country comparisons and distinguishing among different forms of fraud.]]>
