Society 5.0 publication mapping using a scientometric perspective

Abstract

Society 5.0 initiated by the Japanese nation seeks to enhance the standard of living of the society with an IoT-based smart society and an entrepreneurial spirit. This research aims to study the map of international publications in the field of Society 5.0 using a scientometrics perspective. The research conducts a scientometrics method and analyzed research data using the analyze search results service from Scopus and the VOSviewer application. Research data on 57 academic documents published from 2017 to 2019 obtained from the Scopus database. The results show an increase in the number of international publications in Society 5.0 each year. However, there were no research institutions and individual researchers with the most publications in the field of Society 5.0. The most countries, subject areas, and type documents in Society 5.0 publications were Japan, computer science, and article. There was one collaborative pattern of researchers in the field of Society 5.0. This study proposes a convergence axis classification consisting of society 5.0 publications to characterize the body of knowledge generated from three years of publications: computer science, society, economics, industry, technology, and IoT.