The Analysis of the Characteristics and Evolution of the Collaboration Network in Blockchain Domain

Yu, Dejian; Chen, Yitong

doi:10.15388/20-INFOR437

Informatica

The Analysis of the Characteristics and Evolution of the Collaboration Network in Blockchain Domain

Volume 32, Issue 2 (2021), pp. 397–424

Dejian Yu Yitong Chen

https://doi.org/10.15388/20-INFOR437

Pub. online: 20 November 2020 Type: Research Article

Open Access

Received
1 March 2020

Accepted
1 November 2020

Published
20 November 2020

Abstract

Blockchain is a decentralized database, which can protect the safety of trade and avoid double payment. Due to the widespread attention of researchers, the studies of this field have increased sharply in recent years. It is meaningful to reveal the development level and trends based on this literature. This paper adopts bibliometric methods to study the collaboration characteristics from the levels of author, institution and country. Furthermore, several kinds of collaboration networks and their centrality analysis are also presented, which not only display the development level and collaboration degree but also the evolution of author collaboration modes in different phases.

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Biographies

Yu Dejian

yudejian62@126.com

D. Yu received his PhD degree in management science and engineering from the Southeast University, Nanjing, China, in 2012. He is currently an associate professor in the Business School at the Nanjing Audit University, Nanjing, China. He has published more than 50 peer-reviewed papers, many in high-quality international journals including Scientometrics, Journal of the Operational Research Society, Knowledge-Based Systems, IEEE Transactions on Fuzzy Systems, Information Sciences, etc. His current research interests include supply chain finance, business intelligence and data science, Bibliometric, etc. Dr. Yu is the associate editor of Journal of Intelligent & Fuzzy Systems (SCI). Dr. Yu has received numerous honours and awards, including the Social Science Excellent Youth in Jiangsu Province and the Young and middle-aged academic leaders of universities in Jiangsu Province.

Chen Yitong

18645686190@163.com

Y. Chen is now pursuing her master degree in logistics engineering at Nanjing Audit University, Nanjing, China. His current research interests include supply chain and Bibliometric.

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blockchain bibliometrics social network analysis research collaboration

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This manuscript was supported by the Ministry of Education of Humanities and Social Science Project (No. 19YJC630208), the Qinglan Project of Jiangsu Province (2019), the research project of Humanities and Social Sciences in Universities of Jiangsu Province, China (No. 2019SJA0337) and the Natural Science Research Project of Universities in Jiangsu Province, China (19KJB120008).

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