A Bibliometric Analysis on Digitalization During the COVID-19 Pandemic

Abstract

The digitalization phenomenon can be found in academic literature starting the last years of the 20th century. However, during the COVID-19 pandemic organizations and individuals all over the world have found themselves in a position that required the use of digital technologies to adapt to the restrictions imposed by public authorities in order to minimise the spread of the virus. As a direct consequence the academic literature enriched with a significant number of papers discussing the challenges and opportunities brought by this phenomenon. The aim of this paper is to identify the evolution of this subject between the first months of 2020 and beginning of 2023, by conducting a bibliometric analysis performed with VOSviewer software on papers from Web of Science. This paper adds value for further research on digitalization during the COVID-19 pandemic.

Keywords

• digitalization
• organizations
• individuals
• covid-19
• bibliometric analysis