A Bibliometric Review of Digital Assets: Insights and Future Directions

Digital assets have emerged as a predominant investment avenue in the last decade and at the same time regulators and policymakers across the world are facing immense challenges in their adoption. Under this circumstance, the study aims to review and analyze the advancement of the digital asset literature produced from the year 2009 to 2024. The study offers critical insights into the developments of digital asset literature and identifies breakthroughs’ reasons for the increase in scientific publications. Identifies the most prolific countries, institutions, journals, and authors’ contributions and their impact on academia. Further, the content analysis suggests the dominant research streams such as asset pricing, market efficiency, volatility spillover, hedging effectiveness, machine learning, and forecasting techniques. Finally, the study discusses extended areas of future research avenues and directions of digital assets in terms of theoretical and practical implications.