A critical review on blockchain assessment initiatives: A technology evolution viewpoint Colomo Palacios, Ricardo Sánchez Gordón, Mary Arias Aranda, Daniel Blockchain Mapping Software change Technology assessment Technology evolution Blockchain is considered as a major emerging technology that is having an everincreasing spread both in industrial and academic contexts. As the usage of blockchain keeps increasing, a fourth generation of blockchain platforms is being proposed. Thus, applications of blockchain have evolved towards wider scopes than cryptocurrency and asset management. In this context, it is important for practitioners to have deep understanding of various blockchain assessment initiatives. Therefore, this work discusses blockchain assessment initiatives from a technology evolution viewpoint. Furthermore, a mapping was conducted to identify factors that impact blockchain initiatives, synthesize available evidence, and identify gaps between relevant approaches available in the literature. As a result, nine selected works were analyzed based on applicability, research approach, assessment process, blockchain adoption process, and blockchain waves. The findings can help practitioners to understand the main assessment factors that undermine blockchain implementations. 2020-06-17T11:58:37Z 2020-06-17T11:58:37Z 2020 info:eu-repo/semantics/article Colomo-Palacios R, Sánchez-Gordón M, Arias-Aranda D. A critical review on blockchain assessment initiatives: A technology evolution viewpoint. J Softw Evol Proc. 2020;e2272. [https://doi.org/10.1002/smr.2272] http://hdl.handle.net/10481/62536 10.1002/smr.2272 eng http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/3.0/es/ info:eu-repo/semantics/openAccess Atribución 3.0 España John Wiley & Sons Ltd