Perspectives on Smart Villages from a Bibliometric Approach
Abstract
:1. Introduction
- (I)
- Defining the field of research SV;
- (II)
- Identification and analysis of the main topics specific to it;
- (III)
- Identifying the current and future directions of development.
2. Materials and Methods
3. Results
Data Characteristics
4. Discussion
4.1. Grouping Keywords Based on Co-Occurrence
4.2. Bibliographic Coupling Analysis Combined with Systematic Literature Review
4.3. Limitations and Perspectives and of the Study
5. Conclusions
Supplementary Materials
Author Contributions
Funding
Institutional Review Board Statement
Informed Consent Statement
Data Availability Statement
Conflicts of Interest
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Criteria | Features for SV |
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Data typology | Bibliographic map |
Data source | Scopus files |
Method | Co-appearance |
Unit of analysis | Keywords |
Numbering | Fractional |
Minimum keyword occurrences | 5 |
Selected keywords | 160 |
Normalization method | Power of association (between keywords) |
Minimum cluster size | 5 |
Other | Implicitly |
Criteria | Features for SV |
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Data typology | Bibliographic map |
Data source | Scopus |
Method | Bibliographic link |
Unit of analysis | Countries |
Numbering | Fractional |
Minimum number of countries/document | 25 |
Number of selected countries | 30 |
Normalization | Power of association (between countries) |
Minimum cluster size | 5 |
Combining small groups | Yes |
Other | Implicitly |
Cluster No. (Color) | 1 (Red) | 2 (Green) | 3 (Blue) | 4 (Yellow) | 5 (Purple) | 6 (Turquoise) Potential |
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Cluster name | The energy dimension in the SV | Access to energy infrastructure in the SV | The behavior of renewable energy consumers | Access to digital infrastructure in SVs | Governance and planning in SVs | Access to renewable energy for SVs |
Number of research articles in the cluster | 8 | 7 | 7 | 6 | 6 | 4 |
- theoretical | 2 | 4 | 5 | 3 | 4 | 2 |
- empirical | 6 | 3 | 2 | 3 | 2 | 2 |
Publication period | 2017–2020 | 2016–2018 | 2013–2018 | 2018–2020 | 2015–2021 | 2019–2020 |
Average year of publication | 2018 | 2017 | 2016 | 2019 | 2018 | 2020 |
Leading country/countries in research | Greece | USA | India | Poland | Mixed | Mixed |
Comments | Promotes artificial intelligence including in agriculture and in reducing energy consumption in rural areas | It is the oldest cluster in the network considering the most cited works | A cluster that focuses on consuming energy from various renewable sources | It flourished in 2019 in the context of the COVID 19 pandemic as a social movement, its characteristics, engines, and so on | The most stable cluster | One of the youngest clusters, with growing interest in the cluster’s scope |
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Rahoveanu, M.M.T.; Serban, V.; Zugravu, A.G.; Rahoveanu, A.T.; Cristea, D.S.; Nechita, P.; Simionescu, C.S. Perspectives on Smart Villages from a Bibliometric Approach. Sustainability 2022, 14, 10723. https://doi.org/10.3390/su141710723
Rahoveanu MMT, Serban V, Zugravu AG, Rahoveanu AT, Cristea DS, Nechita P, Simionescu CS. Perspectives on Smart Villages from a Bibliometric Approach. Sustainability. 2022; 14(17):10723. https://doi.org/10.3390/su141710723
Chicago/Turabian StyleRahoveanu, Maria Magdalena Turek, Valentin Serban, Adrian Gheorghe Zugravu, Adrian Turek Rahoveanu, Dragoș Sebastian Cristea, Petronela Nechita, and Cristian Silviu Simionescu. 2022. "Perspectives on Smart Villages from a Bibliometric Approach" Sustainability 14, no. 17: 10723. https://doi.org/10.3390/su141710723