A Bibliometric Analysis of the Surveys in Blockchain

Blockchain has become an emerging technology in the field of computer science and is used for asset security, anonymity, and verifiability, etc. Enormous use cases of blockchain, e.g., for making online payments, storing or sharing of private data in a tamper-proof way has attracted the research community in the past decade. In this regard, a lot of survey papers have been published focusing on the domain-specific exploratory study of applying blockchain in that particular domain. In this paper, we collected those survey papers published and collected $542$ unique papers covering the span of $2017$ to $2020$ published in different venues. We then perform a bibliometric study on those papers and provide interesting insights on different features extracted from that papers. We hope this study will serve as a valuable resource for the blockchain community.