Digital Business: A Scientific Publication Positioning using Scientometric Analysis

The digital economy creates a digital business based on technopreneurship for the needs of digital citizens. It has been research yet the notion about digital business review which showed the big picture using data from all countries. This study aims to map the position of international business digital scientific publications indexed by Scopus using scientometric analysis. The study has carried out scientometric methods and analyzed research data using the analysis search results service from Scopus and the VOSviewer application. The research data of 933 scientific documents published from 1978 to 2019 were obtained from the Scopus database. The results showed an increasing trend in the number of digital business publications at the international level each year. Most countries, affiliation, author, subject areas, and type documents in digital business publications were Germany, Curtin University, Chang, E., computer science; and conference paper. There was one pattern of collaborative researchers in digital business publications. This research proposes a convergence axis classification consisting of digital business publication to characterize the body of knowledge generated from four decades of publication: Information technology, Management, Business ecosystem, Industry, Benchmarking, E-commerce, Digitalization, Strategy, abbreviated as IMBIBEDS themes.