Research Hotspots Mining and Trend Analysis of Blockchain

Abstract

In this paper, the bibliography included in Web of Science is taken as the data sample. This paper analyzes articles, reviews and proceedings papers published from 2013 to 2020 in the field of blockchain to reveal the major countries and institutions. We use co-word method to identify research hotspots in the field of blockchain. The results show that the research on blockchain is an emerging research area. China and The United States are always in the leading position. Beijing University of Posts & Telecommunications publish most papers in the field of blockchain. Smart contract, Internet of Thing, bitcoin, security and privacy are the hottest research topics in the field of blockchain.