Digital economy research: Thirty-five years insights of retrospective review

Abstract

Research on the digital economy continues to develop but is limited to one country and/or field. From a bibliometric retrospective review, this study purposes to visually research mapping and research trends in the field of the digital economy on an international scale. This study used bibliometric techniques with secondary data from Scopus. Analyze and visualize data using the VOSViewer program and the analyze search results function on Scopus. This study analyzed 2,784 scientific documents published from 1984 to 2019. This study proposes a grouping of digital economy research themes: Information systems, Digitization, E-commerce, Education, Engineering, Marketing, Industrial revolutions, and Information technology, abbreviated as IDEEEMII research themes.