Smart Grid Architecture: A Bibliometric Analysis and Future Research Directions

Abstract

Smart Grids (SGs) are one of the most critical technological challenges nowadays and have attracted the interest of many researchers. An important research objective is to review the architectures proposed to design a robust research program to address the SG's future challenges. This paper presents a bibliometric study to obtain a structural overview of the Smart Grid architecture. A search for articles dealing with Smart Grid architecture was conducted in the core collection of the Web of Science database, which provides exhaustive citation data for global academic disciplines. As a result, 3993 documents were identified between 2000 and 2022, and the collected data were analyzed using bibliometric tools. The study results are presented and discussed in the following, and recommendations for future research efforts are provided.