Estimating systemic risk in networks of financial institutions is still a challenge in policymaking. The complexity of financial networks may increase the difficulty of mitigating systemic risk and how the topology of connections can propagate the failure of an individual entity through the network in the system. Our study's primary purpose is to apply the bibliometric method to understand further the importance of systemic risk and interconnectedness among financial institutions. Moreover, this contributes to analysing the evolution of systemic risk and networks publications, considering influential aspects of the literature such as authors, themes, and articles. Results suggest that systemic risk and financial networks have experienced rapid growth during the last decade, and this can contribute to a future new research agenda on the topic.