Research trends on smart urban governance in Asia: a bibliometric analysis
Journal of Science and Technology Policy Management
ISSN: 2053-4620
Article publication date: 12 April 2023
Abstract
Purpose
Smart urban governance research has progressed over the past few decades following changes and increasingly complicated city management difficulties. Therefore, the purpose of this paper is to use a scoping review and bibliometric analysis to examine all the publications on smart urban governance, especially in Asia.
Design/methodology/approach
A total of 1,900 smart urban governance articles indexed in the Scopus database was analyzed through scoping review and bibliometric analysis. The articles were analyzed by the number of publications per year, contributing countries, subject areas, authors, cited documents, related issues and cited papers. Furthermore, VOSviewer was used to provide a visual analysis of the co-occurrence of keywords.
Findings
This study indicated that urban smart governance publications continue to increase yearly. Even though the area of analysis is Asia, the USA and China seriously contributed to the analysis. Therefore, the topic of smart urban governance has become a discussion for scholars in the international. From the Scopus database analysis, the top three subject areas are social sciences (28%), environmental science (20%) and medicine (16%). The synthesis using bibliometric analysis by VOSviewer obtained 13 clusters.
Research limitations/implications
This study only focuses on the Scopus database and one specific topic, using one bibliometric analysis tool. Meanwhile, national and international index databases are not used.
Originality/value
This paper examined publication trends on smart urban governance. This paper provided a comprehensive analysis of topic-specific knowledge areas based on previous studies. Additionally, this paper suggested the direction of the development of smart urban governance in the future.
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Acknowledgements
The authors would like to thank the Department of Government Studies Universitas Muhammadiyah Malang for the initial comments on this work, and thank Jusuf Kalla School of Government for supporting the data-collecting process. Thanks also to the anonymous reviewers who provided critical comments.
Citation
Sulistyaningsih, T., Loilatu, M.J. and Roziqin, A. (2023), "Research trends on smart urban governance in Asia: a bibliometric analysis", Journal of Science and Technology Policy Management, Vol. ahead-of-print No. ahead-of-print. https://doi.org/10.1108/JSTPM-03-2022-0045
Publisher
:Emerald Publishing Limited
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