@inbook{e0031476bb3f45419ca8a41a27a27217,
title = "Exploring the Nature of the Smart Cities Research Landscape",
abstract = "As a research domain, Smart Cities is only emerging. This is evident from the number of publications, books, and other scholarly articles on smart cities indexed in Google scholar and Elsevier{\textquoteright}s Scopus—an abstract and citation database. However, significant literature is available on related topics like intelligent city, digital city, and intelligent community based on search results research repositories such as Elsevier{\textquoteright}s Scopus, ACM Digital Library, and Google Scholar. This chapter maps the research work in the smart cities{\textquoteright} domain, based on the available scholarly publications. The aim is to synthesize an emerging understanding of the smart city concept, determine major research themes, types, and gaps in the current research landscape.",
keywords = "Bibliometrics, Intelligent cities, Research mapping, Scientometrics, Smart cities, Smart city research",
author = "Adegboyega Ojo and Zamira Dzhusupova and Edward Curry",
note = "Publisher Copyright: {\textcopyright} 2016, Springer International Publishing Switzerland.",
year = "2016",
doi = "10.1007/978-3-319-17620-8\_2",
language = "English",
series = "Public Administration and Information Technology",
publisher = "Springer ",
pages = "23--47",
booktitle = "Public Administration and Information Technology",
}
