Internet of Things and AI

Internet of Things and AI is a research topic within Information Systems. Science Explorer counts 9.9k research works in it since 1963. 10.0% of them reached the world's top 10% most cited for their field and year.

This cluster of papers explores a wide range of topics related to the Internet of Things (IoT), including applications, challenges, and advancements in areas such as machine learning, security, healthcare, cloud computing, artificial intelligence, wireless sensor networks, big data analytics, cybersecurity, and smart cities.

Internet of Things
Machine Learning
Security
Healthcare
Cloud Computing
Artificial Intelligence
Wireless Sensor Networks
Big Data Analytics
Cybersecurity
Smart Cities

Research works: 9.9k
In the world top 10%: 981
Top-10% rate: 10.0%
Growth, 2018-21 → 2022-25: +168%
Largest producer: India

Internet of Things and AI

Which countries lead Internet of Things and AI research?

By volume, India and the United States publish the most (3.7k and 592 works in 2022-now).

By volume, 2022-now

1 India 3.7k works
2 United States 592 works
3 China 274 works
4 Indonesia 174 works
5 Iraq 156 works
6 Saudi Arabia 155 works
7 ?? 154 works
8 Pakistan 132 works
9 Malaysia 123 works
10 United Kingdom 118 works

How concentrated that is

The same countries as shares of everything the list above accounts for. A node where two countries do two thirds of the work and one spread evenly across twelve read alike as a ranking and not at all alike here.

India3,742 · 66.6%United States592 · 10.5%China274 · 4.9%Indonesia174 · 3.1%6 others listed838 · 14.9%

Shares of the rows listed above, not of the whole node.

Which institutions lead Internet of Things and AI research?

By volume in 2022-now, SRM Institute of Science and Technology publishes the most Internet of Things and AI research, followed by Saveetha University and Chandigarh University.

By volume, 2022-now

1 SRM Institute of Science and TechnologyIndia 103 works
2 Saveetha UniversityIndia 100 works
3 Chandigarh UniversityIndia 77 works
4 Vellore Institute of Technology UniversityIndia 71 works
5 Chitkara UniversityIndia 61 works
6 Lovely Professional UniversityIndia 61 works
7 Savitribai Phule Pune UniversityIndia 56 works
8 Graphic Era UniversityIndia 54 works
9 Uttaranchal UniversityIndia 50 works
10 Koneru Lakshmaiah Education FoundationIndia 47 works

Who are the leading researchers in Internet of Things and AI?

The most-cited researchers publishing on Internet of Things and AI include Lotfi A. Zadeh and Mehdi Hosseinzadeh.

1 Lotfi A. Zadeh United States 141k citations
2 Mehdi Hosseinzadeh Iran 137k citations

Ranked by citations received across their whole record, among researchers with at least three works on this topic.

What are the most cited papers in Internet of Things and AI?

The most cited paper in Internet of Things and AI is "AIP Conference Proceedings" (T Arturo Fernández, 2006), with 5,228 citations. Next come "The Internet of Things for Health Care: A Comprehensive Survey" (3,101) and "Effective Heart Disease Prediction Using Hybrid Machine Learning Techniques" (1,947).

Most cited papers
#	Paper	Released	Citations
1	AIP Conference Proceedings T Arturo Fernández · conference Conference paper	Dec 2006	5,228
2	The Internet of Things for Health Care: A Comprehensive Survey S. M. Riazul Islam, Daehan Kwak, Md. Humaun Kabir et al. · IEEE Access Open access	2015	3,101
3	Effective Heart Disease Prediction Using Hybrid Machine Learning Techniques Senthilkumar Mohan, Chandrasegar Thirumalai, Gautam Srivastava · IEEE Access Open access	2019	1,947
4	Artificial Intelligence (AI) applications for COVID-19 pandemic Raju Vaishya, Mohd Javaid, Ibrahim Haleem Khan et al. · Diabetes & Metabolic Syndrome Clinical Research & Reviews Open access	14 Apr 2020	1,535
5	Internet of Things – New security and privacy challenges Rolf H. Weber · Computer law & security review	2010	1,467

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Where is Internet of Things and AI research done?

The largest centres of Internet of Things and AI research in 2022-now are Chennai (India), Pune (India), Bengaluru (India) and Coimbatore (India). Among places with at least 20 works in it, it is an unusually large share of all research in Coimbatore, Srivilliputhur and Pulchowk.

Largest cities, 2022-now

1 ChennaiIndia 444 works
2 PuneIndia 202 works
3 BengaluruIndia 193 works
4 CoimbatoreIndia 149 works
5 Dehra DūnIndia 133 works
6 HyderabadIndia 132 works
7 New DelhiIndia 100 works
8 Greater NoidaIndia 91 works
9 ChandigarhIndia 83 works
10 MohaliIndia 81 works

Where it is the local speciality

Coimbatore24.3 works43×
SrivilliputhurIN · 33.0 works31×
PulchowkNP · 38.6 works27×
AkolaIN · 48.9 works23×
VijayawadaIN · 70.5 works22×

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Location quotient: how much more of its research is in Internet of Things and AI than the world average.

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Where is the best place to study Internet of Things and AI?

Among universities, judged by research, Saveetha University, King Abdulaziz University and SRM Institute of Science and Technology score highest, combining excellence, specialisation, size, growth and international reach. Research strength is one signal when choosing where to study; it does not measure teaching.

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One dot per university in the first ten of the table below, at the default weights. The upper left is the interesting corner: small places doing unusually strong work.

Excellenceshare of its work in the world top 10%, 2022-now and all time averaged

40%

Specialisationhow much of its work is in this field, counted up to 10× the world share

10%

Sizeits output in this field, on a log scale

30%

Growthoutput growth, counted from -20% to +20%

10%

Internationalshare of its work with a co-author abroad

10%

Each slider sets a weight; the share it gets of the score is beside it.

#	University	Score	Top 10%	Specialisation	Works	Growth
1	Saveetha UniversityIndia	64.6	11.2%	17.1×	100	+1234.0%
2	King Abdulaziz UniversitySaudi Arabia	62.8	33.1%	3.9×	13	+266.3%
3	SRM Institute of Science and TechnologyIndia	61.8	9.7%	16.6×	103	+298.5%
4	Vellore Institute of Technology UniversityIndia	61.1	13.8%	11.8×	71	+93.5%
5	King Saud UniversitySaudi Arabia	58.4	42.5%	1.4×	8	+12.8%
6	Poornaprajna Institute of Scientific ResearchIndia	58.1	38.3%	96.6×	10	-
7	Graphic Era UniversityIndia	55.7	10.5%	25.9×	54	+472.7%
8	Lovely Professional UniversityIndia	55.2	8.2%	20.4×	60	+446.7%
9	Chandigarh UniversityIndia	54.1	5.1%	23.2×	77	+905.5%
10	Chitkara UniversityIndia	54.1	7.0%	26.1×	61	+433.1%
11	Amity UniversityIndia	53.3	6.4%	17.1×	44	+28.0%
12	University of the CumberlandsUnited States	53.1	22.8%	51.5×	13	+655.9%
13	Vel Tech Rangarajan Dr. Sagunthala R&D Institute of Science and TechnologyIndia	51.3	8.6%	32.1×	45	+372.8%
14	Jazan UniversitySaudi Arabia	51.1	21.5%	8.4×	10	+290.4%
15	Near East UniversityCyprus	50.9	20.3%	12.0×	10	+310.0%
16	Savitribai Phule Pune UniversityIndia	49.6	3.9%	22.4×	56	+147.2%
17	Koneru Lakshmaiah Education FoundationIndia	49.2	6.2%	27.4×	47	+111.1%
18	Islamic Azad University, TehranIran	48.7	25.6%	2.0×	20	+135.6%
19	Sathyabama Institute of Science and TechnologyIndia	48.5	7.0%	31.5×	40	+44.2%
20	Tribhuvan UniversityNepal	48.2	4.2%	9.9×	46	+135.7%
21	Karpagam Academy of Higher EducationIndia	48.2	9.0%	28.1×	28	+568.4%
22	Amrita Vishwa VidyapeethamIndia	47.0	8.5%	9.6×	31	+156.8%
23	Symbiosis International UniversityIndia	46.6	6.1%	18.9×	38	+618.5%
24	Uttaranchal UniversityIndia	46.5	4.8%	74.5×	50	-
25	Jain UniversityIndia	46.1	3.9%	28.5×	45	+702.1%
26	Galgotias UniversityIndia	46.1	5.5%	26.9×	38	+191.6%
27	Iraqi UniversityIraq	46.0	9.5%	15.2×	16	+1050.7%
28	G.S. Science, Arts And Commerce CollegeIndia	45.2	3.0%	45.2×	46	+197.0%
29	ASA CollegeUnited States	44.8	7.7%	34.2×	18	+170.5%
30	Manipal Academy of Higher EducationIndia	44.5	15.4%	4.6×	20	+177.3%
31	Sri Eshwar College of Engineering	44.5	12.7%	50.6×	19	+224.8%
32	American International University-BangladeshBangladesh	44.4	22.4%	19.4×	8	+65.8%
33	Kalasalingam Academy of Research and EducationIndia	43.8	2.3%	35.1×	33	+195.1%
34	GLA UniversityIndia	43.1	11.7%	13.5×	15	+768.4%
35	Sharda UniversityIndia	41.8	5.0%	23.6×	27	+1111.5%
36	Birla Institute of Technology and Science, PilaniIndia	41.6	11.4%	7.4×	18	+358.0%
37	Siddhartha Medical CollegeIndia	41.4	7.3%	21.3×	20	+238.5%
38	National Institute of Technology WarangalIndia	41.1	13.1%	9.8×	13	+186.2%
39	St. Joseph's Institute of TechnologyIndia	40.9	7.2%	32.9×	17	+543.1%
40	Bharati Vidyapeeth Deemed UniversityIndia	40.7	6.7%	20.6×	25	+135.8%
41	University of JohannesburgSouth Africa	34.4	20.2%	2.4×	9	-
42	Asia Pacific University of Technology & InnovationMalaysia	30.4	1.6%	30.9×	11	+124.6%

Universities only. The score blends excellence (40%), size (30%), specialisation (10%), growth (10%), international reach (10%), 2022-now; growth compares 2018-21 with 2022-25 and counts up to +20%, since a jump from a small base is mostly noise.

Every institution in Internet of Things and AI, country by country

Is Internet of Things and AI research growing?

Output in 2022-2025 was 168% higher than in 2018-2021, peaking in 2025. The fastest-growing topics are Internet of Things and AI.

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The same series as a ribbon: one cell per year, darker for more. The line above answers how much; this answers when.

Its share of all research

Growing output can still be a shrinking share: all of science grows. This is Internet of Things and AI as a percentage of every work published that year, 0.019% in 2024.

Fractional works of Internet of Things and AI over all fractional works that year. How the balance of science has shifted.

How much of it reaches the world top 10%

Year by year.

Of each year's works in it, the share that reached the world's 10% most cited for their field and year. A field is the world for its own topics, so there is no other line to hold it against.

Which topics inside it are moving

Growth and decline on one axis around a shared zero. Two lists side by side hide the thing that matters: whether the growth dwarfs the decline, or the other way round.

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Who leads Internet of Things research?

By volume in 2022-now, SRM Institute of Science and Technology publishes the most Internet of Things and AI research, followed by Saveetha University and Chandigarh University. By volume, India and the United States publish the most (3.7k and 592 works in 2022-now).

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Which countries lead Internet of Things and AI research?

By volume, 2022-now

How concentrated that is

Which institutions lead Internet of Things and AI research?

By volume, 2022-now

Who are the leading researchers in Internet of Things and AI?

What are the most cited papers in Internet of Things and AI?

Where is Internet of Things and AI research done?

Largest cities, 2022-now

Where it is the local speciality

Where is the best place to study Internet of Things and AI?

Is Internet of Things and AI research growing?

Its share of all research

How much of it reaches the world top 10%

Which topics inside it are moving

Related research

Questions people ask

Who leads Internet of Things research?

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