A systematic literature review of blockchain-based applications: Current status, classification and open issues

By Fran Casino, Thomas K. Dasaklis, Constantinos Patsakis. Telematics and informatics, 2019

1,921 citations recorded by the source corpus.

Abstract This work provides a systematic literature review of blockchain-based applications across multiple domains. The aim is to investigate the current state of blockchain technology and its applications and to highlight how specific characteristics of this disruptive technology can revolutionise “business-as-usual” practices. To this end, the theoretical underpinnings of numerous research papers published in high ranked scientific journals during the last decade, along with several reports from grey literature as a means of streamlining our assessment and capturing the continuously expanding blockchain domain, are included in this review. Based on a structured, systematic review and thematic content analysis of the discovered literature, we present a comprehensive classification of blockchain-enabled applications across diverse sectors such as supply chain, business, healthcare, IoT, privacy, and data management, and we establish key themes, trends and emerging areas for research. We also point to the shortcomings identified in the relevant literature, particularly limitations the blockchain technology presents and how these limitations spawn across different sectors and industries. Building on these findings, we identify various research gaps and future exploratory directions that are anticipated to be of significant value both for academics and practitioners.

Subfields: Information Systems

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A Survey on Blockchain for Big Data: Approaches, Opportunities, and Future Directions (2020, background): “Blockchain platforms can be classified into three types; public, private and hybrid blockchains, based on their areas of application [43].”
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A Survey of Blockchain From the Perspectives of Applications, Challenges, and Opportunities (2019, background): “The blockchain is poised to innovate and transform a wide range of applications, including goods transfer (supply chain), digital media transfer (sale of art), remote services delivery (travel and tourism), platforms for example, moving computing to data sources and distributed credentialing [8].”
Blockchain-based food supply chain traceability: a case study in the dairy sector (2020, methodology): “In Casino et al. (2019), a distributed functional model that provided decentralised and automated FSC traceability based on blockchain technology and smart contracts was introduced.”
Accounting and auditing with blockchain technology and artificial Intelligence: A literature review (2023, neutral): “Adopting machine learning has paved the way for advanced auditing, which can be enhanced by blockchain (Casino et al., 2019).”
Blockchain Technology in Healthcare: A Comprehensive Review and Directions for Future Research (2019, background): “This aspect of interoperability is resolved by using blockchain technology which showed potential to store, manage, and share EHRs safely amongst healthcare communities [28].”
A Survey on Blockchain Interoperability: Past, Present, and Future Trends (2020, background): “Notwithstanding, security, privacy, and scalability remain the most prominent areas to be improved in the blockchain space [40, 109, 146, 191].”
Towards an economic geography of FinTech (2020, background): “A full review of the literature is beyond the scope of this paper (see, for example, Casino et al., 2019; Wang et al., 2019; Zook and Blankenship, 2019).”