Current State and Future Directions of Cryptocurrency Research: A Bibliometric Review

The present work investigates the previous research on cryptocurrency since its inception and provides an overview of its journey as a discipline. The study utilizes the Scopus database to collect the documents, resulting in 2,533 research papers published between 2008 and 2021. A bibliometric analysis is conducted, followed by the network analysis using VOSviewer. The study provides a more comprehensive overview of cryptocurrency research and its significant growth since its inception. It also gives us an understanding of how cryptocurrency research emerged as a domain across various dimensions. Further, it also provides an understanding of the possible future research areas for cryptocurrency research. It will provide a base for scholars and researchers to identify the current gaps in cryptocurrency research across various domains within business, management, and accounting and select the most appropriate field for their study.