Blockchain Technology: A Bibliometric Analysis

Abstract

Blockchain is a decentralized transaction and data management technology. It is a relatively new technology with a wide variety of applications that may in time come to affect the whole economy and be recognized as the latest general-purpose technology. The aim of this study is to explore the literature growth and author productivity of blockchain technology research from 2008 to 2019. 9239 articles were retrieved from Scopus database and analyzed with bibliometrics approach using different perspective views. Blockchain and Blockchain Technology were used as search terms in order to run the query and obtain data. The search was performed on Title, Abstract and Keywords. The search excluded the year 2020 as we are still in the first quarter of the year. Results revealed that first publication with blockchain technology can be tracked back to 2010, and 2019 was the peak time for blockchain research. Moreover, results revealed that Chain and USA are considered to be the most productive countries producing more research, and Chinese organizations were predominant and controlling the research of the new technology. The key author was found by Scopus to be Wang, F.Y with 38 different works.