The Role of Blockchain in Knowledge Sharing based on Scientometric analysis of Scientific Production

The current research is practical in terms of its purpose, in which the method of content analysis and the use of co-word analysis, social network analysis, hierarchical clustering and strategic diagram were used.The community of this research consists of 2010 studies related to "Blockchain in the sharing of knowledge assets" in the period of 2002-2022 in the Web of Science database. Data analysis with hist-site, bib-excel, gefi and excel software; and the maps were drawn with VOS Viewer and SPSS software. The findings of the present study show the upward trend of productions and citations of this topic, so that 2021with 553 studies and 2020 with 5792citations respectively had the most productions and citations among the years under review. Also, through synonym analysis, 9 topic clusters were formed. The keywords "Blockchain, Internet of Things and Smart Contract" had the most frequency and the keywords "Blockchain, Internet and Security" had the most connections. On the other hand, the keywords "credit management, distributed databases and licensed blockchain" had the most citations. The term blockchain also had the highest co-occurrence in connection with terms such as smart contract, Internet of Things and security. Also, three clusters were formed in hierarchical clustering. These clusters were placed in the second and third regions of the strategic diagram. This research provides a framework of the main concepts and topics discussed in the research field of blockchain and knowledge sharing, which while creating a comprehensive perspective for researchers in this field, helps them in their research path.