Blockchain for Secure Payments: A Bibliometric Review

Blockchain has gained the attention of stakeholders as a potential technology for peer-to-peer transactions. Traditional online financial transactions are susceptible to cyberattacks. The poor adoption of online payments has been a concern due to security issues. Blockchain offers a secure alternative for banks and non-bank entities engaged in the payment sector. The chapter explores the literature on blockchain for secure transactions. A bibliometric analysis was done on the Scopus database. 311 documents were used for the analysis. The VOS viewer software version 1.6.19 was used for the analysis. 187 documents were published in the Computer Science domain, 94 documents were published in the business and management domain, 86 documents in engineering, 58 in economics, econometrics, and finance, and 51 documents were published in the social science domain. The findings have implications for researchers as they explore major themes for research in secure payments using blockchain.