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Fostering UAM implementation: from bibliometric analysis to insightful knowledge on the demand

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In the current era, a new class of lightweight, silent, and all-electric aircraft that can take off and land vertically is about to transform mobility in major urban centers. Safer and quieter than helicopters, and operating in some cases without a pilot, they can supplement land mobility. Indeed, urban air mobility (UAM) has recently been a hot topic for debate and scientific research. However, it requires new types of service and technology and a novel business model. For a successful implementation, this paper provides the most insightful knowledge and actors, focusing on demand assessment through current research advancements in the area of urban air mobility. For that purpose, bibliometric analysis has been conducted, using a four-step methodology based on the search of the most frequently used keywords. The research work investigated the needs of the main stakeholders and illustrated how UAM can mitigate the pressure put on decision-makers regarding the mobility demand. The results show recent trends in scientific publications and citations, most cited articles, countries, and organizations that are more involved in this research subject, keyword co-co-occurrence analysis to identify and analyze current research areas and their associated barriers and challenges, using the VOSviewer software and WoS analytic feature.

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The authors are thankful to the Deanship of Scientific Research at Najran University for funding this work, under the Research Groups Funding program grant code (NU/RG/SERC/12/34).

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  1. Department of Information Technology, University of Sindh, Jamshoro, 76090, Pakistan

    Faheem Ahmed Abbasi & Muhammad Ali Memon

  2. INP-ENIT, University of Toulouse, 47 Avenue d’Azereix, BP1629, F-65016, Tarbes Cedex, France

    Faheem Ahmed Abbasi & Raymond Houé Ngouna

  3. Department of Information Systems, College of Computer Science and Information Systems, Najran University, 61441, Najran, Saudi Arabia

    Mana Saleh Al Reshan & Asadullah Shaikh

  4. Department of Computer Science, College of Computer Science and Information Systems, Najran University, 61441, Najran, Saudi Arabia

    Adel Sulaiman

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FAA contributed to conceptualization, design—data construction approach and annotation guidelines, methodology, experiment design, experiments, performance evaluation, result analysis, and writing—original draft preparation. RHN contributed to methodology, investigation, result analysis, and writing—original draft preparation. MAM contributed to methodology, investigation, result analysis, and writing—original draft preparation. MSAR contributed to conceptualization, design—data construction approach and annotation guidelines, methodology, experiment design, experiments, performance evaluation, result analysis, and writing—original draft preparation. AS contributed to methodology, experiment design, experiments, performance evaluation, and result analysis. AS contributed to methodology, experiment design, experiments, performance evaluation, result analysis, and writing—original draft preparation.

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Abbasi, F.A., Ngouna, R.H., Memon, M.A. et al. Fostering UAM implementation: from bibliometric analysis to insightful knowledge on the demand. Soc. Netw. Anal. Min. 14, 80 (2024). https://doi.org/10.1007/s13278-024-01210-3

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