The number of articles mentioning bitcoin in the free search engine for scientific publications Google Scholar jumped 19.1% within one year. The most common issues analyzed are bitcoin price fluctuations and market manipulations.
In 2019, 13,700 scientific publications mentioning bitcoin were indexed by the Google Scholar search engine. This is 19.13% more than a year earlier, noticed prominent bitcoin developer and technical director of Casa Hodl Jameson Lopp.
Google Scholar articles published mentioning Bitcoin:
— Jameson Lopp (@lopp) December 23, 2019
2009: 83
2010: 136
2011: 218
2012: 424
2013: 868
2014: 2,070
2015: 2,820
2016: 3,380
2017: 6,460
2018: 11,500
2019: 13,700 (will ⬆️ due to listing lag)
10 years ago, in 2009, there were less than a hundred such publications. The most rapid growth in the number of publications was demonstrated after the explosive growth of the bitcoin price in 2017. Between 2017 and 2018, the number of published articles mentioning bitcoin jumped 78%.
Google Scholar was launched in 2004. The system indexes articles from most peer-reviewed online journals of the largest scientific publishers in Europe and America.
The majority of articles mentioning bitcoin analyzes the bitcoin price, its dependence on certain factors, susceptibility to possible manipulations and involvement in illegal activities.
