This study aims to investigate the research field of shadow economy in the new light of digitalization, spotlighting the thematic evolution of existing literature. The tools necessary for a bibliometric analysis are used to extract and visualize the most impactful insights. To trace the temporal evolution of research in this domain 72 documents were extracted from Web of Science platform, the selection being made using the next keywords: “digitalization”, “shadow economy”, “informal economy”, “informal sector”, “hidden economy”, and “black economy”. The empirical results underscore the important roles of Kurniawan T.A., Othman M.H.D and Goh H.H as reference authors when it comes to the digitalization and informal sector spectrum. Also, “Journal of Cleaner Production”, “Financial and Credit Activity-Problems of Theory and Practice” and “Sustainability” represent the top picks of the authors to publish their work on the studied subject.