Article: Technical evolution and prediction of blockchain based on different evolution patterns by text mining and bibliometric methods Journal: International Journal of Technology Management (IJTM) 2023 Vol.93 No.3/4 pp.345 - 374 Abstract: Given the disruptive changes that blockchain has brought to various industries, the profound evolutionary paths of blockchain technology (BCT) can help to comprehend it better. Thus, this paper investigates BCT from a technology management perspective that includes three parts: 1) topic identification; 2) topic evolution analysis; 3) topic prediction. In the first part, the major application fields and annual topics of BCT are identified based on cluster analysis and the hierarchical Dirichlet process (HDP), respectively. The second part calculates the topic importance and similarities amongst annual topics. Five evolutionary patterns were obtained based on the similarity relations. In the last part, both emerging and lasting topics are predicted by considering their importance and evolutionary patterns. The findings are substantial and interesting, including five main BCT-application fields, several emerging and lasting technical topics and the two longest evolutionary paths. Inderscience Publishers - linking academia, business and industry through research

Title: Technical evolution and prediction of blockchain based on different evolution patterns by text mining and bibliometric methods

Authors: Huiying Zhang; Runbo Zhao; Zuguo Yang

Addresses: College of Management and Economics, Tianjin University, No. 92, Weijin Road, Nankai District, 300072, Tianjin, China ' College of Management and Economics, Tianjin University, No. 92, Weijin Road, Nankai District, 300072, Tianjin, China ' Library, Tianjin University, No. 92, Weijin Road, Nankai District, 300072, Tianjin, China

Abstract: Given the disruptive changes that blockchain has brought to various industries, the profound evolutionary paths of blockchain technology (BCT) can help to comprehend it better. Thus, this paper investigates BCT from a technology management perspective that includes three parts: 1) topic identification; 2) topic evolution analysis; 3) topic prediction. In the first part, the major application fields and annual topics of BCT are identified based on cluster analysis and the hierarchical Dirichlet process (HDP), respectively. The second part calculates the topic importance and similarities amongst annual topics. Five evolutionary patterns were obtained based on the similarity relations. In the last part, both emerging and lasting topics are predicted by considering their importance and evolutionary patterns. The findings are substantial and interesting, including five main BCT-application fields, several emerging and lasting technical topics and the two longest evolutionary paths.

Keywords: blockchain technology; BCT; topic relationship; evolutionary pattern; topic prediction; text mining; topic importance; hierarchical Dirichlet process; HDP; technical evolution; emerging technology.

DOI: 10.1504/IJTM.2023.133897

International Journal of Technology Management, 2023 Vol.93 No.3/4, pp.345 - 374

Received: 18 Oct 2021
Received in revised form: 31 May 2022
Accepted: 27 Jul 2022
Published online: 05 Oct 2023 *

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