以文獻計量法分析加密貨幣研究趨勢

隨著科技的發展，近幾年金融科技快速創新，深深地影響了人們生活的方式。近十年虛擬貨幣市場開始快速興起，其中加密貨幣擁有「無法被追蹤的匿名貨幣」並且「沒有第三方信任金融干涉」，以及透過電腦運算驗證交易可以獲得加密貨幣作為報酬。這些特性讓許多人對其興趣逐漸增加，並且開始將加密貨幣列入一種投資標的。而在學術上加密貨幣也廣泛受到討論，從最初的加密貨幣解說探討，到加密貨幣的技術、應用以及交易、經濟，後續還有加密貨幣市場心理學或是市場泡沫投機等。總體而言加密貨幣還算是一項新的領域，還有討論的空間，目前在學術上以及實務上都還沒有得到一個很好的整合。而現今人們對科學生產評估的重視，文獻計量分析已成為一個活躍的研究領域。文獻計量學的回顧性研究特質，作者必須仔細選擇引用哪些文章，而大多數被引用的文章也反映出它們在其學科領域中的重要性。因此，本研究以加密貨幣文獻作為研究對象，採用書目計量分析來彙整這些文獻，了解加密貨幣領域研究現況。透過分析結果，本研究也找出該領域當前主流在探討的議題有哪些，並討論相關結果在學術與實務上的意涵。

關鍵字

加密貨幣；比特幣；以太幣；書目計量學

並列摘要

With the development of technology, the rapid innovation of financial technology in recent years has deeply influenced the way we live. The virtual currencies such as cryptocurrencies has been rapidly emerging in the last decade. Cryptocurrencies are "pseudonym currencies" which work without a central authority controlling them and could be obtain through mining (i.e. the validation of transactions). These features have led to a growing interest in cryptocurrencies, and many people are beginning to consider them as an investment target. Cryptocurrencies are also widely discussed in academic, from initial cryptocurrency explanations to cryptocurrency technology, applications, trading, economics, and later cryptocurrency market psychology or market bubble speculation. In general, cryptocurrency is still a new field that need for discussion, and it is not yet well integrated in both academic and practical. With the current emphasis on assessment of scientific production, bibliometric analysis has become an active discipline. The nature of bibliometric analysis requires scholars to choose carefully which articles to cite, and most of the articles cited reflect their importance in the discipline. Consequently, this study uses bibliometric analysis to analyze literature contain keywords cryptocurrency Bitcoin or Ethereum to understand the current state of research in the discipline. Base on the results of the analysis, this study also identifies the current mainstream issues being explored in this field. Both academic and practical implications were also discussed.