Global Trends in Blockchain Technology Research: A Bibliometric Analysis

Abstract

Blockchain technology has emerged as the most impactful tool of the decade. The term ‘Blockchain Technology’ can be traced way back to 2008. The magnitude and attention of Blockchain Technology are increasing enormously in the scientific community, which makes it necessary to analyze a bibliometric study on it. Our paper aims to study scientific production only around the term “Blockchain Technology”, excluding other blockchain technology applications. Thus, we restricted our search to papers indexed in the Web of Science database provided by Clarivate. Ten years (2013-2022) were selected for the publication period with the keyword ‘Blockchain Technology’, Microsoft Excel, Bibexcel, and Hiscite were used for the analysis of data. The results revealed some valuable insights, including yearly publications, productive authors, source journals, geographic distribution, linguistic analysis, relative growth, citation trends, etc. The findings of this paper conclude that institutions from China have contributed the highest number of research articles on ‘Blockchain Technology’ during the last ten years