Author(s): Deepika Dhawan, Sushil Kumar Mehta
The purpose of review is to achieve a practical approach for research planning and understanding complex interrelationship of literature, as it is difficult to locate needed data in the voluminous literature, a general review is done to help the researchers and policymakers. Conceptual maps and co-word analysis is used to get a better view of the evolution of the rules and regulations of "Basel" to cope up with the needs of the changing times. Publications related to Basel norms have increased steadily after the global financial crisis reaching peaks in 2013 and 2015. The USA has come up as the highest contributor to the relevant research articles published. The United Kingdom becomes the highest contributor to multiple-authored documents and citations. The top ten journals that published relevant articles are listed in ABDC rankings giving an aura of credibility to them. The top ten cited documents are also published in journals listed in ABDC journals. The shift of focus of keywords during the period reflects changes in the Basel norms showing a pattern. Data analysis is based on the data available in the Scopus database. It will help to see the pattern evolved in the regulations with the help of keywords. This will help to understand a common man in standard terms the concept of Basel. To the researchers' knowledge, conceptual maps and co-word analysis are used for the first time to explain the terms.