Resumen de Smart Cities and Sustainable Urban Planning: A Systemic Review and Bibliometric Analysis
Smart interventions are gaining global attention as a solution to the sustainability challenges being faced globally. With the onset of the smart city movement, the inclusion of smart technologies aims to promote environmental, social, and economic well-being. This paper analyses the global research of smart cities and sustainable urban planning from January 2003 to December 2023to identify thematic mapping, bibliometric networks, and word cloud analysis. With the help of Biblioshiny software, the study reviews 2140 research articles written by 8019 authors and published in 812 sources acquired through the Web of Science. The impact of the documents will be describedthrough the document topics trends, most relevant journals, authors and affiliations, country-wise production and collaborations, and keyword clusters. The results indicate that the research on these topics was initiated in 2003, and within the last two decades, a total of 2137 have been published.The volume of publications started increasing in 2015. Although most papers have been produced via affiliations from China, Iran, and the U.S.A., collaborations have been avidly present throughoutthe globe. “Sustainability” has been the dominant publishing journal in both quantitative and qualitative terms followed by “Sustainable Cities and Society”. The most frequently used keywords were‘smart cities’, ‘sustainable’, and ‘urban planning.’ The most prolific authors are Simon Elias Bibri and Yigitcanlar Tan with 41 and 23 publications respectively. This study provides a global perspective on smart cities and sustainability. The study's findings can assist scholars and researchers in further research on developing these topics.
