Abstract
The smart sustainable city (SSC) is a concept created in response to problems and challenges arising from rapid urbanization. This is a relatively new term that is developing dynamically, which is confirmed by the growing number of publications over recent years. For this reason, this article presented an up-to-date comprehensive bibliometric analysis to describe and assess the scientific landscape of smart and sustainable cities literature. The analysis was based on two bibliographic sources—the Web of Science Core Collection and the Scopus database. It covers publications on the SSC, as well as documents describing the smart city (SC) and the sustainable city (SuC) concepts separately. VOSviewer and Biblioshiny were selected as software tools for the bibliometric analysis. Based on the descriptive bibliometric analysis, quantity and quality indicators were determined separately for the SC, SuC, and SSC concepts, while the network analysis mapped and covered the level of multi-faceted scientific cooperation in the field of the SSC research. The analysis results were intended to familiarize scholars and practitioners with the most prolific authors, sources, institutions, and countries in the analyzed scientific field, to identify the most influential research channels and impact from authors, sources, countries, and research topics, to determine major clusters of the SSC research and also to provide valuable information for further investigation.
Highlights
A city is a place where a large number of people live and work
The above-mentioned query wording was revealed as the publication topic in 9694 records listed in the Web of Science (WoS) database and 18,695 records indexed in the Scopus database
Considering the analyzed query wording in the publication title, there were 4264 such publications indexed in the WoS database and 5976 publications listed in the Scopus database
Summary
A city is a place where a large number of people live and work. It is a human settlement, which differs from others by its relatively great size and by its functions entrusted by public administration authorities. According to the United Nations data, the number of city dwellers has increased significantly over the last century. In 2018, it totaled 55% of the world’s population. It is expected that this percentage will continue to grow (reaching 68% in 2050), which will be the result of the ongoing gradual relocation of residents from rural to urban areas in parallel with the increase in the overall global population. Almost 90% of this increase will occur in peripheral countries [1]
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