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Bibliometric analysis of Blockchain in the healthcare domain

Show Author's Information Shilpi Garg1,  Rajesh Kumar Kaushal1( ),  Naveen Kumar1,  Anshul Verma2
Chitkara Institute of Engineering and Technology, Chitkara University, Punjab 140401, India
Institute of Science, Banaras Hindu University, Varanasi 221005, India
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healthcare, Blockchain, bibliometric, VOSviewer
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As an innovation, Blockchain has transformed numerous industries and sparked the interest of the research community due to its abundance of benefits, opening up diverse research routes in the healthcare sector in the last decade. With Health 4.0 becoming ubiquitous in the healthcare industry, end-user transactions are being carried out on a decentralized network, making Blockchain profitable to meet the demands of the modern healthcare sector. Therefore, a detailed analysis of Blockchain is very crucial. This study emphasizes the evolution of science and the preliminary research of Blockchain in healthcare through bibliometric analysis. All the data are extracted from the Scopus database, and the VOSviewer tool is used for analysis. A total of 1152 Scopus articles published between 2018 and 2022 are examined. Results reveal that in 2022, the field of Blockchain experienced a notable increment in the number of publications and a significant growth rate. IEEE Access became well known in this field and had a large number of citations. It is observed that China and India are the leading countries in terms of publications on Blockchain. This study offers a number of recommendations that amateur and professional researchers can use as a benchmark before commencing a Blockchain investigation in the future.


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Bibliometric analysis of Blockchain in the healthcare domain

Show Author's information Shilpi Garg1, Rajesh Kumar Kaushal1( ), Naveen Kumar1, Anshul Verma2
Chitkara Institute of Engineering and Technology, Chitkara University, Punjab 140401, India
Institute of Science, Banaras Hindu University, Varanasi 221005, India

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As an innovation, Blockchain has transformed numerous industries and sparked the interest of the research community due to its abundance of benefits, opening up diverse research routes in the healthcare sector in the last decade. With Health 4.0 becoming ubiquitous in the healthcare industry, end-user transactions are being carried out on a decentralized network, making Blockchain profitable to meet the demands of the modern healthcare sector. Therefore, a detailed analysis of Blockchain is very crucial. This study emphasizes the evolution of science and the preliminary research of Blockchain in healthcare through bibliometric analysis. All the data are extracted from the Scopus database, and the VOSviewer tool is used for analysis. A total of 1152 Scopus articles published between 2018 and 2022 are examined. Results reveal that in 2022, the field of Blockchain experienced a notable increment in the number of publications and a significant growth rate. IEEE Access became well known in this field and had a large number of citations. It is observed that China and India are the leading countries in terms of publications on Blockchain. This study offers a number of recommendations that amateur and professional researchers can use as a benchmark before commencing a Blockchain investigation in the future.

Keywords: healthcare, Blockchain, bibliometric, VOSviewer

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Received: 13 May 2023
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