A BIBLIOMETRIC ANALYSIS FOR GLOBAL RESEARCH TRENDS ON DIGITAL ECONOMY

Sorin-Constantin Deaconu and Sorin Teiusan
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Sorin-Constantin Deaconu: 1 Decembrie 1918 University, Alba-Iulia

Revista Economica, 2021, vol. 73, issue Special, 312-337

Abstract: Introduced two decades ago, the digital economy concept became a subject of interest for governments and businessmen, politicians and researchers. This paper aims at highlighting the current state of research and trends on digital economy. There is no previous evidence of a global bibliometric analysis on digital economy. Therefore, we conducted a bibliometric analysis on digital economy literature, to identify area of interest and potential for future research. Through this research we aimed to answer the following questions: How many scientific papers on digital economy have been published in journals? What are the most productive journals, countries and authors on the subject of digital economy? What are the most cited papers on digital economy? What are the most frequent keywords in published documents on digital economy? The data used for the research were extracted from the Web of Science database, collections Science Citation Index Expanded, Social Sciences Citation Index, and Emerging Sources Citation Index, and the processing of collected information was done using package biblioshiny for bibliometrix from statistical R software. The results, obtained with the mentioned computer tools, answer the research questions. Research production and publication of documents on digital economy are increasing. As no bibliometric analysis on digital economy has been identified in the Web of Science database, this paper is intended to cover this gap

Keywords: digital economy; bibliometric analysis; R software; bibliometrix; biblioshiny (search for similar items in EconPapers)
JEL-codes: A10 L86 O10 (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Date: 2021
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