The applications of the internet of things in smart cities governance: a bibliometric study

Integrating the Internet of Things (IoT) in smart cities can solve rapid urbanization. It will provide better urban services, addressing urban problems that develop because of enhancing urbanization without establishing policies focusing on well-being. The present investigation explores the growing trend of the dynamic publications associated with the advanced technologies integrated into smart city publication productivity using bibliometric analysis. This approach enables the detection of the usage history, the usage scheme, and the research landscape topic in scientific papers on IoT in smart cities. This study included 976 articles from 2013 to 2023. The area of research in smart cities is categorized into six important clusters: (1) IoT application areas in smart cities, (2) IoT infrastructure for smart cities, (3) IoT security and privacy for smart cities, (4) IoT architecture for smart cities, (5) IoT technologies and communication protocol for smart cities, (6) IoT data analysis for smart cities. Moreover, this study reveals that the issues related to new technologies, security, and privacy of IoT to integrate into smart cities would be an interesting topic for future research.