Figure 3
From: The concept of decentralization through time and disciplines: a quantitative exploration
Ranking the influence of Blockchain and Governance in the (de)centralization literature. (a) Ranking in time of the influence coming from a cluster in the 3rd hierarchical level, computed on the average knowledge flow \(K_{a \to \bullet} (Y)\) from papers in cluster a published in the year Y towards all other future papers. (b) Ranking in time of the influence to a cluster in the 3rd hierarchical level, computed on the average knowledge flow \(K_{\bullet \to a} (Y)\) from papers published in the year Y towards future papers in cluster a. The blockchain cluster, highlighted in blue, has become a central actor in the recent literature on (de)centralization, supplanting the governance cluster, highlighted in red