From traditional methods to digital solutions: The impact of artificial intelligence and metaverse in SME's

With the industrial society gaining importance and globalization, SMEs have become indispensable actors of economies after the 1980s. In our study, information was shared by providing literature research on how SMEs are defined in different countries, their contributions to economic and social life, their strengths and weaknesses, as well as artificial intelligence, metaverse, digitalization and cryptocurrency payment systems, and these technological usage areas of businesses. In the first part of our study, which consists of four main parts, general literature information about the SME concept is given, in the second part, digitalization and artificial intelligence concepts are given, and in the third part, literature information about metaverse and cryptocurrency payment systems is given. In the fourth and last section, research analysis and results are shared. In our research, which was prepared using the bibliometric research method, scientific publications obtained as a result of the scanning process using keywords related to our subject on the Web Of Science database were used as the data source. Various analyzes were made on these studies, and the analysis results constituted the purpose of our study. This aim of our study is; How many studies have been done so far, who are the authors who have done the most scientific work in this field, which authors' works have received the most citations and the number of citations they have received, which countries have done more studies, in which years the research was conducted and in which scientific categories. to make analyzes in the fields.