Figure 1
The flowchart begins with the topic 'AI & Algorithmic Trading' and specifies the database as Web of Science. The search field is 'Article Topic' with a time frame from 1637 to 2025, focusing on English language documents of all types. The search string includes terms like 'algo* trading', 'quant* trading', 'artificial intelligence', 'machine learning', and 'AI'. The date extracted is September 4, 2025. The flowchart shows that 417 records were identified and screened, with no records removed, resulting in 417 records included for bibliometric analysis.Flow diagram of the search and selection strategy applied to the Web of Science core collection, yielding the 417 publications (January 1993 to September 2025) analysed in this study