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Smart city concept in the light of the literature review Cover

Smart city concept in the light of the literature review

Open Access
|Jul 2019

Figures & Tables

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Smart city elementsSource: elaborated by the authors based on (Stawasz & Sikora-Fernandez, 2016; Zanella et al., 2014; Caragliu et al., 2011).

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Results of the search in the Scopus database — the document type criterion (indexed from January 2009 to May 2019)

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Results of the search in the Web of Science database — the document type criterion (indexed from January 2009 to May 2019)

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Number of publications in the field of “smart city” in Scopus and Web of Science databases (indexed from January 2009 to May 2019)

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Identified publications in terms of a subject area (Scopus database, indexed from January 2009 to May 2019)

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Identified publications in terms of a subject area (Web of Science database, indexed from January 2009 to May 2019)

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Map of sub-areas related to the “smart city” concept

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Identified subareas related to smart city elements

Sub-areas and main issues of smart city research

CLUSTERRESEARCH SUB-AREASMAIN RESEARCH ISSUES
1.SOCIO-ECONOMIC ASPECTS• the quality of social interaction (Neuroni et al., 2019; Tenney et al., 2019; Timmerman et al., 2019; Adnan et al., 2018; Vhaduri et al., 2018; Oliveira & Santos, 2018);
• the engagement of citizens in public life and decision-making; the participation of local stakeholders in managing public affairs; the collaboration between the local government and residents (Novo Vázquez & Vicente, 2019; Certomà & Rizzi, 2017; Streitz, 2017; Morgado et al., 2015; Ma & Lam, 2019; Horgan & Dimitrijević, 2019; Trencher, 2019; Manchester & Cope, 2019; Kundu, 2019; Mannan & Callenes-Sloan, 2019);
• healthcare (Sitón-Candanedo et al., 2019; Kumar et al., 2019; Kamel Boulos et al., 2019; Sedighian 2019; Chondrogiannis et al., 2019; Julian & Botti, 2019);
• security issues (Mattos et al., 2019; Krämer et al., 2019; Sittón-Candanedo et al., 2019; Sharma & Kalra, 2019; Xie & Hwang, 2019; Vitunskaite et al., 2019);
• education (Sodiq et al., 2019; Fernández et al., 2019; Panchanathan et al., 2019; Safiullin et al., 2019; Deng, 2019; Li, 2019);
• the development of entrepreneurship (Grimaldi et al., 2019; Gonzaga, 2019; Perng et al., 2018; Tay et al., 2018; Indravati et al., 2018; Carè et al., 2018);
2.URBAN LOGISTICS• congestion (Zhao et al., 2019; Zhu & Liang, 2019; Yang & Zhu, 2019; Mishra, 2019; Reddy & Mehta, 2019; Garg et al., 2019);
• traffic flow management (Zheng et al., 2019; Ferrer et al., 2019; Vranken et al., 2019; Vaida & Mouftah, 2019; Chen, 2019; Kuang et al., 2019);
• autonomous vehicles (Li et al., 2019; Cantas et al., 2019; Schmitt et al., 2019; Ji et al., 2019; Xie et al., 2019);
3.ENVIRONMENTAL ASPECTS• incorporating sustainable development principles into the smart city concept (Bibri, 2019; Ismagilova et al., 2019; Allam & Dhunny, 2019; Zhang & Pu, 2019; Cao et al., 2019; Chakrabarty, 2019);
4.SMART TECHNOLOGY• IOT — the Internet of things (Mattos et al., 2019; Sittón-Candanedo et al., 2019; Heaton & Parlikad, 2019; Jan et al. 2019; Rath & Pattanayak, 2019);
• cloud computing (Azhdari et al., 2019; Huang et al., 2019; Min-Allah et al., 2019; Wang et al., 2019; Del Esposte et al., 2019);
• big data (Kong et al., 2019; Putra et al., 2019; Lakshmanaprabu et al., 2019; Luo et al., 2019; Ameer et al., 2019);
• artificial intelligence (Khadse et al., 2019; Marcuzzi & Tonello, 2019; Wei et al., 2019; Panchamathan et al., 2019; Bui & Jung, 2019; Hu & Jiang, 2019);
• wireless sensor networks (Sadeghpour et al., 2019; Chammas et al., 2019; Godoi et al., 2019; Alduais et al., 2019; Marrero et al., 2019; Alchihabi et al., 2019; Sedighian & Kashi, 2019)
DOI: https://doi.org/10.2478/emj-2019-0012 | Journal eISSN: 2543-912X | Journal ISSN: 2543-6597
Language: English
Page range: 70 - 86
Submitted on: Oct 25, 2018
Accepted on: May 10, 2019
Published on: Jul 30, 2019
In partnership with: Paradigm Publishing Services
Publication frequency: 4 issues per year

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