A BIBLIOMETRIC ANALYSIS OF CRYPTOCURRENCY

Abstract

A bibliometric analysis was conducted for 6175 publications with the keyword "cryptocurrency" scanned in the Web of Science database. Then, social network analysis was applied to the data obtained and the relationships between authors, publications and keywords were visualized. When the publications by years are analyzed, the first publication on cryptocurrency was realized in 2014 and publications continue to increase today. Of the studies on cryptocurrency, 42% were conducted in the field of computer science and 11% in the field of finance. Shean Corbet was found to be the author with the strongest connection to cryptocurrency with 37 publications and 1929 citations. It was determined that 62% of the studies used between 4 and 6 keywords, and the keywords cryptocurrency, blockchain, Bitcoin, Ethereum and volatility were frequently used together. It was seen that the keywords used were divided into 255 clusters.