Scholarly Communications on Internet of Things

Abstract

The present generation immensely understands the significance and value of the Internet of Things (IoT) for the development of the society. A sizeable amount of researches are found to be conducted by scientists and academicians around the world related to IoT. Analysis of the scholarly communications of the researchers in the field could provide us many clues on various dimensions in this field of new emerging area of study. In the present study, webometric techniques have been used to investigate scholarly publications in IoT indexed in the Emerald Insight database which are published during the span of 7 years i.e. 2013 to 2019. Data analysis reveals us perspectives on the growth of IoT research, core journals, discipline domain, and top productive countries. As the findings of the study indicates IoT research productivity has grown rapidly with time significantly during the last 4 years i.e. 2016-2019. The articles are mainly based on Social Science discipline, business and management being highest. China amongst other countries tops in research in IoT as the findings show.