Fourteen Years of Research on Smart City and Community: A Bibliometric Analysis

Abstract

Smart cities have become prominent in various disciplines in the last decade. Few scholars have reviewed the current research related to smart cities. Unfortunately, limited studies have examined the smart city and community issues using bibliometrics. Therefore, this paper aims to fill the gap in the current research by systematically reviewing the paper on smart city and community research. This research was conducted by performing a bibliometric approach. The data were traced from the Web of Science Clarivate Analytics database and analysed using the R-package, Hiscite, and VOSviewer. The results of this analysis are descriptively summarised in the number of articles, citations, and the most influential author and journal. Regarding topics, we revealed six growing clusters of research covering 174 sub-topics. This study contributes to the growing body of smart cities by reviewing the current literature on the issue and providing future research directions.