Electronic commerce, e-trade platforms (e-marketplaces) and Internet have been growing parallelly and continuously in the last more than three decades. In our paper we conduct a bibliometric study on data from the Web of Science (WoS) database for the period 2000-2025 (730 sources with 19947 references and 11.63 average citations per document). Revealing the evolution of the notions about e-marketplaces over time, we observe a remarkable regularity of research matching the maturing of the market itself and Chinese authors having emerging and growing importance. Core topics in the research group around three areas - strategy, business aspects and organisation of commerce, covering both business and technical aspects of e-commerce.
Temelkova et al. (Mon,) studied this question.