Urban governance in Latin America: Bibliometrics applied to the context of smart cities

Abstract

Society lives in a dynamic, complex, and contradictory urban system that seeks the balance between urban development and environmental preservation. For this purpose, there are Information and Communication Technologies which can make the existence of Smart Cities possible. Thus, developing Smart Cities involves applying inter and multidisciplinary knowledge, which permeates even Information Science. This study analyzes Latin American scientific production by applying Bibliometrics to quantify the publications related to smart cities, geotechnologies, governance, and cadastre. We analyzed scientifi c productionindexed in the Scopus database from 2007 to 2017. We also performed the Factorial Correspondence Analysis for visualization of word clusters in order to verify their co-occurrence in the abstracts of articles. The results identifi ed Brazil as the country with the highest number of published documents. The importance of the term “Smart Cities” was evidenced with the increase of production in the last 5 years, a period that accumulates 98% of such publications. The most common term is “Geographic Information System”, that appears in 75% of the publications. Finally, in the co-occurrence of words, we identifi ed terms that corroborate with the greater objectives of smart cities.

Bibliometric Analysis of Smart Public Governance Research: Smart City and Smart Government in Comparative Perspective

“…In particular, this study helps to understand the evolution of the SPG research area based on smart city and smart governments over the past two decades. Our findings support and complement the results of previous studies like Chugunov et al (2018) and Fernandes et al (2019). We confirm the lack of smart government research areas in previous similar studies using the bibliometric analysis.…”

“…The paper entails a critical analysis of various existing projects and their effects on the significance of big data and smart urbanism in smart cities around the world. The paper was indeed spotlighted in several bibliometric studies (Mora et al 2017;Fernandes et al 2019;Zhou et al 2020;Wu et al 2020) as one of the most cited articles. This means that 2013 may be considered the earliest burst of SPG research publications, which corresponds with the growing trend in the number of documents and citations shown in Figure 2.…”

“…Big data and smart urbanism" and Holland's study "Critical interventions into the corporate smart city" are the two primary studies in this cluster. Apart from general and more encompassing bibliometric studies, a bibliometric study focused on urban development in Latin America was performed by Fernandes et al (2019). For Latin American countries, the rise of smart cities began in 2013, the year we also determined in our bibliometric analysis to be when the rapid growth of the SPG documents started.…”

Empreendedorismo e inovação nas cidades inteligentes: uma revisão sistemática da literatura

“…O urbanismo do século XXI aborda a cidade inteligente como uma área marcada e governada por meios tecnológicos capazes de possibilitar fácil acesso a informações, bem como eficiência na gestão (SIMÃO; FIRMINO, 2019). Por isso, para se entender de forma clara o conceito das cidades inteligentes, é necessário, não apenas analisar a Ciência da Informação, mas considerar conhecimentos multidisciplinares (FERNANDES, 2019).…”

Past, present, future: Engagement with sustainable urban development through 35 city labels in the scientific literature 1990–2019

“…This study extends recent bibliometrics research into the significance of different city categories in three new directions: first, it takes a comprehensive approach encompassing 35 city labels, allowing for direct comparison and consideration of their singular and joint contributions to conceptualising sustainable urban development. This contrasts with bibliometrics on individual categories, such as 'sustainable city' (Perea-Moreno et al 2018), 'eco city' (Li et al 2019;Türkeli et al 2018), 'creative city' (Rodrigues and Franco, 2019;Lazzaretti et al 2017) and, reflecting surging interest, especially 'smart city' (Zheng et al 2020;Guo et al 2019;Dominguez and Sanguino 2019;Corsini et al 2019;Mora et al 2019;Li 2019;Winkowska et al, 2019;Fernandes et al 2019;Tiwari et al 2019;Moradi, 2019;Li 2019;Waheed et al 2018;Muhamedyev et al 2018;Komninos and Mora 2018;Tomaszesska and Florea 2018;Duran et al 2018;Alcaide-Munoz et al 2017;Mora et al 2017;Zheng et al 2020). Notably, so far only three studies have followed a comparative perspective, juxtaposing five (Fu and Zhang, 2017), seven (Wang et al 2019) and twelve (De Jong et al 2015) categories, respectively.…”