Blockchain Technology in Data Privacy: A Bibliometric Analysis

Abstract

Blockchain is an emerging technology used to record transactions, agreements, and contracts in a peer to peer distributed ledger. It creates an unalterable and verified ledger of information by validating transactions. The important features of blockchain are open, interconnection, sharing and peer-to-peer [18]. Blockchain technology has given a new opportunity to various domains to conduct research. Research community has taken an interest in exploring the use of blockchain in implementing fast and efficient solutions. There is a need to conduct a study on the existing facts in the blockchain with respect to data privacy as it rapidly evolved in recent years. As such, we have conducted a bibliometric study of blockchain technology in data privacy. We have used Scopus, WoS, DBLP and ACM databases. We choose data privacy because it is very important to protect the data. It might misuse the information once it reached the wrong hands. Bibliometric study of Scopus, WoS, DBLP and ACM indexed Blockchain ‘s articles, conference papers, and review papers in data privacy from Jan 2015 to March 2020 is performed and presented in this paper. Collected papers are analyses against five research questions and findings are noted. These findings are helpful to both fresh and experienced researchers when they initiate a data privacy project by using blockchain technology.