Urban governance in Latin America: Bibliometrics applied to the context of smart cities

Abstract

Society lives in a dynamic, complex, and contradictory urban system that seeks the balance between urban development and
environmental preservation. For this purpose, there are Information and Communication Technologies which can make the
existence of Smart Cities possible. Thus, developing Smart Cities involves applying inter and multidisciplinary knowledge, which
permeates even Information Science. This study analyzes Latin American scientifi c production by applying Bibliometrics to
quantify the publications related to smart cities, geotechnologies, governance, and cadastre. We analyzed scientifi c production
indexed in the Scopus database from 2007 to 2017. We also performed the Factorial Correspondence Analysis for visualization
of word clusters in order to verify their co-occurrence in the abstracts of articles. The results identifi ed Brazil as the country
with the highest number of published documents. The importance of the term “Smart Cities” was evidenced with the increase
of production in the last 5 years, a period that accumulates 98% of such publications. The most common term is “Geographic
Information System”, that appears in 75% of the publications. Finally, in the co-occurrence of words, we identifi ed terms that
corroborate with the greater objectives of smart cities.