Adoption and Implementation Trends of Vehicle-to-Everything (V2X) Technologies: A Comprehensive Bibliometric Analysis

The Vehicle-to-Everything (V2X) is a term used for denoting everything that the car can communicate with regarding its surroundings; it consists of vehicles, pedestrians, infrastructure, smart cities, and everything within its vicinity. V2X utilizes different types of communication technologies to communicate with other vehicles: infrastructure, networks and pedestrians, devices, electrical grid, homes, or the environment. The study aims to contribute by presenting a bibliometric analysis on global research trends related to V2X technology including publication outputs, co-authorship among authors; citation patterns and the countries’ affiliation. We identified 6,958 articles meeting the inclusion criteria using the Scopus database among the total retrieved items (n = 8,432). China, the United States, and the United Kingdom are responsible for most of this growth in global publications (among 80 other countries), as shown by the results. Mohammad Saad Alam and Pavol Bauer were the most cited authors with the highest link strength in co-authorship networks, while Farukh Abbas and Mustafa Inci Stand out as highly-cited authors on V2X research. Prior authors summarize the information of 13 previous field studies, while our study provides a broad view only about V2X technology from Scopus database.