Perspectives on Smart Villages from a Bibliometric Approach

Maria Magdalena Turek Rahoveanu, Valentin Serban, Adrian Gheorghe Zugravu, Adrian Turek Rahoveanu (), Dragoș Sebastian Cristea, Petronela Nechita and Cristian Silviu Simionescu ()
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Maria Magdalena Turek Rahoveanu: Faculty of Engineering and Agronomy in Braila, “Dunarea de Jos” University of Galati, 800008 Galati, Romania
Valentin Serban: Faculty of Management and Rural Development, University of Agronomic Sciences and Veterinary Medicine Bucharest, 011464 Bucharest, Romania
Adrian Gheorghe Zugravu: Cross-Border Faculty of Humanities, Economics and Engineering, “Dunarea de Jos” University of Galati, 800008 Galati, Romania
Adrian Turek Rahoveanu: Faculty of Management and Rural Development, University of Agronomic Sciences and Veterinary Medicine Bucharest, 011464 Bucharest, Romania
Dragoș Sebastian Cristea: Faculty of Economics and Business Administration, “Dunarea de Jos” University of Galati, 800008 Galati, Romania
Petronela Nechita: Faculty of Engineering and Agronomy in Braila, “Dunarea de Jos” University of Galati, 800008 Galati, Romania
Cristian Silviu Simionescu: Faculty of Engineering and Agronomy in Braila, “Dunarea de Jos” University of Galati, 800008 Galati, Romania

Sustainability, 2022, vol. 14, issue 17, 1-17

Abstract: We are going through a period in which the concept of the smart village (SV) is a novelty for the management of a community, and the new smart economy of the village is based on the power of community support. Appropriately, the development of a SV is related to a family’s participation in the motivation and access to education, the increase in knowledge of information technology, information and communications technology (ICT) literacy, and also in the creation of facilities for research and development (R&D). The partnership between the public administration, the private sector, and the community heads will lead to a smart economy within the village. At the same time, the intervention of the food system to support climate change can be supported by intelligent agriculture. The SV has a strong social significance; research in the field can be multidisciplinary, including human nutrition, climate change, and community education. This paper aims to X-ray the research areas of the SV from a multidisciplinary sense, in support of the partnership with the community, and to identify the main directions of strategic development. In total, 368 pieces of research on SVs from the last ten years were analyzed through bibliometric analysis using VOSviewer software, doubled by the co-occurrence of keywords and the bibliometric combination of documents, followed by a systematic review of the literature. The research undertaken was intended to contribute to the development of research for SVs, with the analysis of identified clusters. The results obtained will have a special contribution at the SV level through strategic and research proposals and suggest that the most important strategic and research directions for SVs focus on community education, its satiety, as well as several environmental and social changes generated by SVs.

Keywords: smart village; rural areas; human capital; people; bibliometrics (search for similar items in EconPapers)
JEL-codes: O13 Q Q0 Q2 Q3 Q5 Q56 (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Date: 2022
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