Blockchain Applications in Power Systems: A Bibliometric Analysis

Abstract

Power systems are growing rapidly, due to ever-increasing demand for electrical power. These systems require novel methodologies and modern tools and technologies, to better perform, particularly for communication among different parts. Therefore, power systems are facing new challenges such as energy trading and marketing and cyber threats. Using blockchain in power systems, as a solution, is one of the newest methods. Most studies aim to investigate innovative approaches of blockchain application in power systems. Even though, many articles published to support the research activities, there has not been any bibliometric analysis which specifies the research trends. This paper aims to present a bibliographic analysis of the blockchain application in power systems related literature, in the Web of Science (WoS) database between January 2009 and July 2019. This paper discusses the research activities and performed a detailed analysis by looking at the number of articles published, citations, institutions, research area, and authors. From the analysis, it was concluded that there are several significant impacts of research activities in China and USA, in comparison to other countries.