Papers on “Bitcoin”
Research on “Bitcoin” in the 480 tracked journals: papers per year and category, the journals, institutions and countries publishing it, the keywords studied with it and its most-cited papers. It is not among the most frequent keywords of the last 30 days, so this page has no list of its latest papers. Also as Markdown.
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Key findings#
- From 2017 to 2026 (so far), the keyword “Bitcoin” appeared in 1,293 papers in the tracked journals, most of them in finance (841), economics (265) and management (52).
- 153 of them were published in 2025, against 24 in 2017.
- Since 2023, the institutions with the most of these papers were Lebanese American University (28), Paris School of Business (19) and Tunis El Manar University (18).
- The journals publishing most of them were Finance research letters (87), International Review of Financial Analysis (47) and Financial Innovation (47).
- The most-cited of them is “Bitcoin: Medium of exchange or speculative assets?” (Journal of International Financial Markets Institutions and Money, 2017), with 1,461 citations.
Papers per year#
20172026 (so far)
| Category | 2017 | 2018 | 2019 | 2020 | 2021 | 2022 | 2023 | 2024 | 2025 | 2026 (so far) |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Finance | 11 | 44 | 79 | 81 | 106 | 108 | 112 | 105 | 97 | 98 |
| Economics | 11 | 24 | 20 | 17 | 32 | 31 | 36 | 35 | 37 | 22 |
| Management | 1 | 2 | 4 | 11 | 6 | 6 | 12 | 2 | 5 | 3 |
| AI | 0 | 4 | 0 | 4 | 3 | 5 | 6 | 10 | 6 | 9 |
| Operations Research | 0 | 0 | 4 | 3 | 8 | 5 | 4 | 6 | 1 | 5 |
| Information Systems | 1 | 0 | 6 | 5 | 2 | 1 | 3 | 5 | 3 | 2 |
| Accounting | 0 | 1 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 1 | 3 | 4 | 0 |
| Statistics | 0 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 1 | 0 | 2 |
| Marketing | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 2 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 1 |
| Tourism and Hospitality | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 1 |
| Health Economics and Policy | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| All categories | 24 | 76 | 114 | 121 | 158 | 159 | 178 | 167 | 153 | 143 |
Where the papers come from#
| # | Journal | Papers |
|---|---|---|
| 1 | Finance research letters | 87 |
| 2 | International Review of Financial Analysis | 47 |
| 3 | Financial Innovation | 47 |
| 4 | International Review of Economics & Finance | 42 |
| 5 | Computational Economics | 41 |
| 6 | Research in International Business and Finance | 29 |
| 7 | The North American Journal of Economics and Finance | 26 |
| 8 | Digital Finance | 20 |
| 9 | The Quarterly Review of Economics and Finance | 14 |
| 10 | Economics Letters | 13 |
| # | Institution | Papers |
|---|---|---|
| 1 | Lebanese American University | 28 |
| 2 | Paris School of Business | 19 |
| 3 | Tunis El Manar University | 18 |
| 4 | Pusan National University | 13 |
| 5 | University of Sfax | 13 |
| 6 | Bucharest University of Economic Studies | 11 |
| 7 | Manouba University | 11 |
| 8 | Sultan Qaboos University | 10 |
| 9 | University of Sousse | 10 |
| 10 | University of Southampton | 10 |
| # | Country | Papers |
|---|---|---|
| 1 | China | 100 |
| 2 | United States | 93 |
| 3 | United Kingdom | 72 |
| 4 | France | 62 |
| 5 | Tunisia | 56 |
| 6 | South Korea | 47 |
| 7 | Turkey | 47 |
| 8 | India | 43 |
| 9 | Australia | 39 |
| 10 | Italy | 32 |
| # | Keyword | Papers |
|---|---|---|
| 1 | Ethereum | 223 |
| 2 | cryptocurrency | 146 |
| 3 | cryptocurrency market | 123 |
| 4 | COVID-19 pandemic | 122 |
| 5 | gold | 106 |
| 6 | hedging | 75 |
| 7 | Russian invasion of Ukraine | 67 |
| 8 | volatility spillovers | 65 |
| 9 | portfolio diversification | 63 |
Most-cited papers#
| # | Citations | Per month | Title | Journal | Published | Authors |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | 1,461 | 13.7 | Bitcoin: Medium of exchange or speculative assets? | Journal of International Financial Markets Institutions and Money | 2017-12-21 | Dirk G. Baur, KiHoon Hong, Adrian D. Lee |
| 2 | 1,095 | 9.7 | Volatility estimation for Bitcoin: A comparison of GARCH models | Economics Letters | 2017-06-21 | Paraskevi Katsiampa |
| 3 | 905 | 8.5 | Trading and Arbitrage in Cryptocurrency Markets | Journal of Financial Economics | 2018-01-01 | Igor Makarov, Antoinette Schoar B |
| 4 | 889 | 9.2 | Blockchain technology for enhancing supply chain resilience | Business Horizons | 2018-10-25 | Hokey Min |
| 5 | 880 | 11.3 | The contagion effects of the COVID-19 pandemic: Evidence from gold and cryptocurrencies | Finance research letters | 2020-05-14 | Shaen Corbet, Charles James Larkin, Brian M. Lucey |
Research ideas that follow this keyword#
Cite this page
Scholar4AI. (2026). Papers on “Bitcoin”. Journal and Conference Research Rankings. Retrieved November 3, 2026, from https://scholar4ai.com/keywords/bitcoin
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