Purpose

This study aims to provide researchers a holistic approach for comprehensive understanding of the Bitcoin-related research by discovering its trends, subjects, relations, keywords and concepts.

Design/methodology/approach

An integrated approach of bibliometric analysis, network analysis and concept linking analysis was proposed for exploring Bitcoin-related studies from 70 countries in the Scopus database.

Findings

The bibliometric analysis shows that electronic money and blockchain are the mainstream issues of Bitcoin, and the domain distribution of the literature is mainly in engineering-related fields. Through the network analysis of cocitations, co-occurrences and cowords, research clusters were discovered respectively from different perspectives. The authors also have mastered a multilevel concept linking diagram for six related major concepts.

Originality/value

The major contribution of this research is about providing an integrated and comprehensive approach to extract the mainstream issues that can help researchers conduct Bitcoin-relevant research. This study shows the development trend, context and clusters of Bitcoin-related studies from various perspectives networks and produces a visual concept linking diagram that will enable researchers to quickly understand the contextual relationship between Bitcoin keywords during literature analysis. In addition, the most crucial studies in the main topics are extracted to save the considerable time and labor that would be required to manually read all the literature and summarize the issues.

中文翻译：

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比特币研究进展：网络与概念联动分析

目的

本研究旨在通过发现其趋势、主题、关系、关键字和概念，为研究人员提供一种全面了解比特币相关研究的整体方法。

设计/方法/方法

提出了一种文献计量分析、网络分析和概念链接分析的综合方法，用于探索 Scopus 数据库中来自 70 个国家的比特币相关研究。

发现

文献计量分析表明，电子货币和区块链是比特币的主流问题，文献领域分布主要集中在工程相关领域。通过对共引、共现和共词的网络分析，分别从不同的角度发现了研究集群。作者还掌握了六个相关主要概念的多层次概念链接图。

原创性/价值

这项研究的主要贡献是提供一种综合和全面的方法来提取可以帮助研究人员进行比特币相关研究的主流问题。本研究从多角度网络展示了比特币相关研究的发展趋势、语境和集群，并产生了一个可视化的概念链接图，使研究人员能够在文献分析中快速了解比特币关键词之间的语境关系。此外，提取了主要主题中最关键的研究，以节省手动阅读所有文献和总结问题所需的大量时间和劳动力。