Scientometrics dimensions of world bitcoin research: A study based on scopus database

Abstract

Since 2009, there has been creating enthusiasm for bitcoin scientific research from different fields, which incorporate software engineering and designing, financial matters, trade and money, law, and regulatory. The reason for this paper is to evaluate bitcoin writing dependent on the structures and systems of science, as an essential advance inside the investigations of this new marvel. Dissecting the developing logical writing on bitcoin distributed somewhere in the range of 2009 and 2019, we outfitted useful insights on academic research on this subject concerning publication year, type and category, Highly prolific authors, major journals and citations. Scopus database was used for the gathering 3188 documents. Our study provides a knowledge area map that identifies and evaluates the links between author's and countries’ distribution, the conceptual structure of the sphere, the structure, and connections of most cited papers and journals. Resuming our findings, we note a concentration of the interest in some keywords (bitcoin, cryptocurrency, blockchain) and on a few influential authors.