<![CDATA[Purpose: This study aims to analyze the development and research trends of blue economy financing and is to analyze the development and research trends of blue economy financing. It aims to identify the major research topics, publication trends and research gaps in the literature and how financing influences sustainable blue economy development..Design/Methodology: This research is based on the bibliometric approach based on the Scopus-indexed publications that were published from the year 1993 to 2025. The research was performed using the VOSviewer and the Bibliometrix package in R to analyze publication trends, keyword co-occurrence, thematic clusters and research development.Findings: The findings show that there is a growing body of research on blue economy financing. In particular, the research has to do with blue finance, investment, financial instruments, and sustainable financing mechanisms. The thematic analysis indicates that financial mechanisms have increasingly been studied for ocean-based economic activities and sustainability objectives. However, there are still less advanced financing tools, ESG integration and investment strategies in the blue economy. The findings highlight the need for further research on how financial institutions, investors, and innovative financing instruments can mobilize capital for sustainable ocean development and strengthen the financial foundations of the blue economy.Practical Implications: This study provides a comprehensive overview of the development of blue economy financing research. It identifies important research gaps and offers a useful reference for future studies, particularly in strengthening the role of finance in achieving sustainable blue economy development.Originality/Value: Unlike previous reviews that map either the broad blue economy or finance-labelled blue finance instruments, this study maps the intersection between the blue economy and financing as a distinct knowledge domain over 1993–2025. It shows that investment-related themes remain peripheral to the dominant governance and sustainability themes, and translates this gap into a research agenda on financing instruments, ESG integration, and Islamic finance channels, such as sukuk and zakat- and waqf-based social finance, for developing archipelagic economies such as Indonesia.]]>
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