Abstract
Smart cities or intelligent cities have been gaining visibility and importance in recent years; not only in academia but also in the agendas of governments. Smart cities represent an important and disruptive interplay of cities’ infrastructure, technologies, and people. Advancements in information and communication technology (ICT) have been supported by the development of cutting-edge technologies that involve the behaviors and experiences of city dwellers. In this context, smart cities have changed drastically in the last years. However, due to the rapid advancement of this multidisciplinary field, scholars and practitioners have encountered some difficulties in catalysing the latest advances as well as identifying a consistent and robust research agenda on this hot topic. In order to understand the evolution of this field, this study used bibliometric and network analysis; and identified top authors and articles. Also, we provided research directions based on cluster classification. Lastly, this study offers theoretical and managerial contributions.
Highlights
Nowadays, 55% of people in the world live in urban areas [1] and according to projected estimates, approximately 68% of the world’s population will live in cities by 2050
In order to outperform this gap, this study aims to 1) identify the literature on smart cities taking into consideration the period from 2000 to 2018; 2) Give insights on the more influential studies using a bibliometric and network analysis approach; 3) Provide research directions to scholars and insights to practitioners and managers
By employing a bibliometric and network analysis approach, we identified 1226 articles, which were filtered and analysed in order to understand the dynamics of this field
Summary
55% of people in the world live in urban areas [1] and according to projected estimates, approximately 68% of the world’s population will live in cities (urban areas) by 2050 This increase in population growth is already bringing unprecedented consequences to the cities, its people and their quality of life; provoking climate change. Due to this landscape and the recent advances in information and communications technologies (ICT), cities need to become smarter in terms of resource consumption. With the use of GPS in activities that depend on vehicles, cities can accumulate important data on the behaviour of citizens in order to develop government policies to address resource usage and the well-being of the population. Smart cities have the potential to leverage the quality of life as well as the performance of the firms that use their infrastructure [14]
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