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Exploring the Nature of the Smart Cities Research Landscape

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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’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’s Scopus, ACM Digital Library, and Google Scholar. This chapter maps the research work in the smart cities’ 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.

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  1. Insight Centre for Data Analytics, National University of Ireland, Galway DERI Building, IDA Business Park, Lower Dangan, Galway, Republic of Ireland

    Adegboyega Ojo & Edward Curry

  2. United Nations Department of Economic and Social Affairs (UNDESA), Division for Public Administration and Development Management (DPADM), E-Government Branch, P. O. Box 10017, NY, USA

    Zamira Dzhusupova

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  1. Centro de Investigacion y Docencia Economicas (CIDE), Mexico, D.F. C.P., Mexico

    J. Ramon Gil-Garcia

  2. Center for Technology in Government, University at Albany State University of New York, Albany, New York, USA

    Theresa A. Pardo

  3. Myongji University, Seoul, Korea (Republic of)

    Taewoo Nam

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Ojo, A., Dzhusupova, Z., Curry, E. (2016). Exploring the Nature of the Smart Cities Research Landscape. In: Gil-Garcia, J., Pardo, T., Nam, T. (eds) Smarter as the New Urban Agenda. Public Administration and Information Technology, vol 11. Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-17620-8_2

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