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Smart city elementsSource: elaborated by the authors based on (Stawasz & Sikora-Fernandez, 2016; Zanella et al., 2014; Caragliu et al., 2011).
Smart city elementsSource: elaborated by the authors based on (Stawasz & Sikora-Fernandez, 2016; Zanella et al., 2014; Caragliu et al., 2011).

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Results of the search in the Scopus database — the document type criterion (indexed from January 2009 to May 2019)
Results of the search in the Scopus database — the document type criterion (indexed from January 2009 to May 2019)

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Results of the search in the Web of Science database — the document type criterion (indexed from January 2009 to May 2019)
Results of the search in the Web of Science database — the document type criterion (indexed from January 2009 to May 2019)

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Number of publications in the field of “smart city” in Scopus and Web of Science databases (indexed from January 2009 to May 2019)
Number of publications in the field of “smart city” in Scopus and Web of Science databases (indexed from January 2009 to May 2019)

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Identified publications in terms of a subject area (Scopus database, indexed from January 2009 to May 2019)
Identified publications in terms of a subject area (Scopus database, indexed from January 2009 to May 2019)

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Identified publications in terms of a subject area (Web of Science database, indexed from January 2009 to May 2019)
Identified publications in terms of a subject area (Web of Science database, indexed from January 2009 to May 2019)

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Map of sub-areas related to the “smart city” concept
Map of sub-areas related to the “smart city” concept

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Identified subareas related to smart city elements
Identified subareas related to smart city elements

Sub-areas and main issues of smart city research

CLUSTERRESEARCH SUB-AREASMAIN RESEARCH ISSUES
1.SOCIO-ECONOMIC ASPECTS• the quality of social interaction (Neuroni et al., 2019; Tenney et al., 2019; Timmerman et al., 2019; Adnan et al., 2018; Vhaduri et al., 2018; Oliveira & Santos, 2018);
• the engagement of citizens in public life and decision-making; the participation of local stakeholders in managing public affairs; the collaboration between the local government and residents (Novo Vázquez & Vicente, 2019; Certomà & Rizzi, 2017; Streitz, 2017; Morgado et al., 2015; Ma & Lam, 2019; Horgan & Dimitrijević, 2019; Trencher, 2019; Manchester & Cope, 2019; Kundu, 2019; Mannan & Callenes-Sloan, 2019);
• healthcare (Sitón-Candanedo et al., 2019; Kumar et al., 2019; Kamel Boulos et al., 2019; Sedighian 2019; Chondrogiannis et al., 2019; Julian & Botti, 2019);
• security issues (Mattos et al., 2019; Krämer et al., 2019; Sittón-Candanedo et al., 2019; Sharma & Kalra, 2019; Xie & Hwang, 2019; Vitunskaite et al., 2019);
• education (Sodiq et al., 2019; Fernández et al., 2019; Panchanathan et al., 2019; Safiullin et al., 2019; Deng, 2019; Li, 2019);
• the development of entrepreneurship (Grimaldi et al., 2019; Gonzaga, 2019; Perng et al., 2018; Tay et al., 2018; Indravati et al., 2018; Carè et al., 2018);
2.URBAN LOGISTICS• congestion (Zhao et al., 2019; Zhu & Liang, 2019; Yang & Zhu, 2019; Mishra, 2019; Reddy & Mehta, 2019; Garg et al., 2019);
• traffic flow management (Zheng et al., 2019; Ferrer et al., 2019; Vranken et al., 2019; Vaida & Mouftah, 2019; Chen, 2019; Kuang et al., 2019);
• autonomous vehicles (Li et al., 2019; Cantas et al., 2019; Schmitt et al., 2019; Ji et al., 2019; Xie et al., 2019);
3.ENVIRONMENTAL ASPECTS• incorporating sustainable development principles into the smart city concept (Bibri, 2019; Ismagilova et al., 2019; Allam & Dhunny, 2019; Zhang & Pu, 2019; Cao et al., 2019; Chakrabarty, 2019);
4.SMART TECHNOLOGY• IOT — the Internet of things (Mattos et al., 2019; Sittón-Candanedo et al., 2019; Heaton & Parlikad, 2019; Jan et al. 2019; Rath & Pattanayak, 2019);
• cloud computing (Azhdari et al., 2019; Huang et al., 2019; Min-Allah et al., 2019; Wang et al., 2019; Del Esposte et al., 2019);
• big data (Kong et al., 2019; Putra et al., 2019; Lakshmanaprabu et al., 2019; Luo et al., 2019; Ameer et al., 2019);
• artificial intelligence (Khadse et al., 2019; Marcuzzi & Tonello, 2019; Wei et al., 2019; Panchamathan et al., 2019; Bui & Jung, 2019; Hu & Jiang, 2019);
• wireless sensor networks (Sadeghpour et al., 2019; Chammas et al., 2019; Godoi et al., 2019; Alduais et al., 2019; Marrero et al., 2019; Alchihabi et al., 2019; Sedighian & Kashi, 2019)