Smart and sustainable city management in Asia and Europe: A bibliometric analysis

Abstract

The smart city concept, together with the growing importance of sustainable development goals, has a significant impact on city management. For this reason, our research aim is to explore the relationship between the areas of impact and tools specific to both approaches, in the context of creating and implementing urban policy. We map the academic research of smart cities and sustainable development and present key research areas, authors, publications, institutions, and countries by conducting a bibliometric analysis based on the data from the Scopus database. Our methodology includes the established tools of network analysis of scientific collaborations such as co-authorship and keyword co-occurrence networks. The research findings may help navigate the literature on the smart and sustainable city and provide a systematic basis for developing urban management in Asia and Europe.