中国科学院自动化研究所机构知识库

Taking Ei Compendex (EI) and China Na- tional Knowledge Infrastructure (CNKI) databases as the literature sources, this paper presented a bibli- ographic analysis of the blockchain-related literature between January 2011 and September 2017. For each literature source, we built a separate dataset. Authors’productivity and collaboration, affiliation of authors and collaboration amongst institutions were analyzed using techniques of social networks analysis on both datasets. According to the results, the CNKI au- thors/institutes raised their productivity and outper- formed the EI authors/institutes since 2016. However, the EI authors/institutes show a higher level than the CNKI authors/institutes in collaboration. We also summarized the hot topics on the EI dataset using textual analysis and discovered researchers have shifted their attention from Bitcoin itself to the blockchain technology underlying it.