Digital cities research trend analysis (2012-2021)

A digital city is a result of the development of a city through a technology-based or digital platform. This research is conducted descriptively based on scopus.com data, where researchers obtained 586 documents over the last ten years (2012-2021). The analysis process uses (1) research country documents, (2) affiliation documents, (3) affiliation documents, and (4) funding sponsor documents. From the results and discussion, researchers find that (1) The United States has the most digital city research articles over the last ten years (2012-2021), followed by China and the United Kingdom. (2) The University with the most research articles on digital cities over the last ten years (2012-2021) is Pontificia Universidade Catolica do Parana (Brazil), followed by Universidade de Sao Paulo-U.S.P. (Brazil), The University of Sydney (Australia), and the University of Illinois at Chicago (U.S.). (3) The field of social studies has been a favorite of research articles on digital cities for the last ten years (2012-2021), followed by the field of computer science and engineering. Finally, (4) the National Natural Science Foundation of China has the most research funding sponsors in digital cities over the past ten years (2012-2021), followed by the European Commission and U.K. Research and Innovation. Digital city research is the future of the world. ? IEOM Society International.