EXPLORING THE CURRENT STATE OF RESEARCH: A BIBLIOMETRIC ANALYSIS OF BLOCKCHAIN IN LAND REGISTRY

Abstract

In this era of rapidly changing technology and evolving new applications of existing technologies, the application of blockchain technology in land registration is a new topic of interest. This application is fairly new, but it still has some available case studies across the world. The number of publications in the field is currently limited but it is becoming increasingly popular in the research domain. A detailed bibliometric analysis is being conducted in this paper to give future researchers a head start in the field and provide an overview of the current state of research to all researchers. Data was gathered from the SCOPUS database using keywords Blockchain and land registry. This data was then analysed using the Biblioshiny app through the Bibliometrix package of R Studio software. Based on the existing literature, using the software, the most relevant authors, affiliations and sources of publication were identified. The trend of publication of top countries over the years has also been depicted.  A Sankey plot has been made to summarise the relationship amongst the top authors, top author keywords and top author countries. Source clustering has been done through Bradford’s law to identify the core sources of production. Thematic evolution in the field of research, word cloud and country collaboration map are also depicted in the paper to get more insight into the current state of research and direction. This paper intends to create better insight into the topic of land registry and blockchain and provide direction to researchers in the field.