A bibliometric analysis of role of ICT in sustainable development goals

This bibliometric review is undertaken to explore the research work being pursued in the field of achieving the 2030 target of sustainable development goals with emphasis to role of ICT. Technology has been emphasised by United Nations as to play a key role as a facilitator in sustainable development goals.

The data from Scopus database was used for Bibliometric analysis..bib file was downloaded from the Scopus database for analysis. The extracted file has details viz. author's name, affiliation, article title, keywords, abstracts, and citation data. This file was used with Bibliometrix (R Studio). 163 results were used for analysis. These subject areas were selected to focus the data collection to the most relevant journal articles. The analysis using Biblioshiny was conducted on 19^th Sep 2021.

The findings revealed that publications around this area have enhanced considerably since 2015 and Norway is the most dominant country as per maximum citations. Furthermore, the thematic map shows that ICT and SDG and its varied related area are presently Basic themes of research i.e it is an area on which researchers have started working upon. Researchers are focussing on wide-ranging dimensions viz. tourism, smart cities, education etc. and exploring the role of ICT in fulfilment of 17 SDGs.

The study is a novel attempt to find out the work being done in the area of role of ICT in achieving sustainable development goals. The study has taken a novel variable of ICT and sustainable development goals to find out the dimensions of work in this area. It has taken Scopus database to find prolific authors, dimensions in this area of research and prominent countries doing collaborative research in this domain.