Researching the Digital Economy: A Bibliometric Analysis of Articles Indexed in Selected Scientific Databases

Abstract

Networking, datafication and platformization are irreversible and ubiquitous processes that have fundamentally changed the conditions and the ways that the economy functions, nowadays called the digital economy (4.0). Digital economy as a relatively new phenomenon is a cognitively interesting object of research conducted in Poland and abroad. The aim of this paper is to present areas of research conducted in the field of digital economy during the last eleven years. An additional result of the research is an attempt to conceptualize and operationalize the concept of digital economy. The research was based on bibliometric analysis of scientific articles indexed in selected journal databases. They play a significant role in learning about the results of research conducted in various national and foreign research centers, hence their analysis was considered an appropriate scientific method to achieve the indicated purpose.