Predicting Trends and Research Patterns of Smart Cities: A Semi-Automatic Review Using Latent Dirichlet Allocation (LDA)

Smart cities are a current worldwide topic requiring much scientific investigation. This research instigates the necessity of an organized review to a heedful insight of the research trends and patterns prevailing in this domain. The string is formulated to extract the corpus from Scopus largest database of publications. The corpus of 8320 articles published from 2010 to 2022 is processed using Latent Dirichlet Allocation. Two, five, and ten topics have been extracted to provide the recent trends for IoT in smart cities. There has been an increased recognition that more attention needs to be paid to the area of smart cities so a complete overview of the topic of smart cities research, including the most prominent nations (institutions, sources, and authors) and noteworthy research directions has been presented in this paper. The scientific collaboration across countries (regions), organizations, and authors has also been widely discussed. A detailed and comprehensive overview and visualization of the trends and research patterns used to integrate the Internet of Things in Smart Cities. This data based experimental study signifies a roadmap of the research trends in Smart Cities by implementing topic modeling technique that has never been used in this domain. Based upon the topic modeling using LDA, authors have formulated three research questions and answered those question based on the in-depth research. At the end this study concludes the areas suggested are at the growing phase and need more insight for their growth.