A bibliometric review of cryptocurrencies: how have they grown?

Financial Innovation

Jaime de Pablo-Valenciano¹  Juan Uribe-Toril¹  José Antonio Cordero-García²  Francisco Javier García-Corral³ 

[1] Department of Business and Economics, Applied Economic Area, University of Almería, Carretera Sacramento s/n, 04120, La Cañada de San Urbano, Almería, Spain;Department of Law, Financial and Tax Law, University of Almeria, Carretera Sacramento s/n, 04120, La Cañada de San Urbano, Almería, Spain;Research Group: Almeria Group of Applied Economy (SEJ 147), University of Almeria, Carretera Sacramento s/n, 04120, La Cañada de San Urbano, Almería, Spain;

关键词: Cryptocurrency;    Bitcoin;    Ethereum;    Bibliometric analysis;    Business and economics;   

DOI  :  10.1186/s40854-021-00306-5

来源: Springer

【 摘 要 】

With the development of new technologies, some concepts become relevant in the economic area, as is the case with cryptocurrencies, in general, or Bitcoin and Ethereum, in particular. Due to the impact of these tools, a detailed bibliometric study that allows us to obtain all information about cryptocurrencies must be conducted. This study will help scientific production by specifying the development and lines of related research that have been followed and are currently being followed. We have used Tableau, R (Bibliometrix R Package), and VOSviewer software to analyze the information. These have been combined to create and review unified metadata from the Web of Science (WoS) and Scopus databases. The bibliometric analysis shows 771 articles on the WoS database and 648 articles on Scopus published between 2010 and early 2019. They present the most relevant articles, research areas, countries, institutions, authors, journals, and trends during the last few years. In conclusion, the number of publications has grown in the last 3 years. The analysis shows the evolution of blockchain technology used in this type of cryptocurrency. The review of this period marks a possible end to the historical part of cryptocurrencies, thereby opening the current topic to its multiple applications.

【 授权许可】

CC BY