USING UAV FOR THE DIGITALISATION  OF PUBLIC ADMINISTRATION.  A BIBLIOMETRIC ANALYSIS

Gheorghe-Gavrilă HOGNOGI; Ana-Maria POP; Alexandra-Camelia MARIAN-POTRA

doi:10.24193/subbgeogr.2022.01

Authors

Gheorghe-Gavrilă HOGNOGI Babeș-Bolyai University, Faculty of Geography, Centre for Regional Geography, Cluj-Napoca, 5-7 Clinicilor Street, Romania, e-mails: gheorghe.hognogi@ubbcluj.ro, gheorghehognogi@yahoo.com https://orcid.org/0000-0001-6206-5895
Ana-Maria POP Babeș-Bolyai University, Faculty of Geography, Centre for Regional Geography, Cluj-Napoca, 5-7 Clinicilor Street, Romania, ana-maria.pop@ubbcluj.ro, mia21ro@gmail.com https://orcid.org/0000-0001-9958-1391
Alexandra-Camelia MARIAN-POTRA West University of Timișoara, Faculty of Chemistry, Biology, Geography, Department of Geography, Timișoara, 4 Vasile Pârvan Boulevard, Romania, e-mail: alexandra.potra@e-uvt.ro https://orcid.org/0000-0002-9191-681X

DOI:

https://doi.org/10.24193/subbgeogr.2022.01

Keywords:

UAV, Romania, VOSviewer, local administration

Abstract

The new European financial framework for 2021-2027 indicates digitalisation investments as a priority for the residential spaces, especially the urban ones. This is needed to increase the efficiency of the public administration and to optimize the relationships with the citizens (POR 2021-2027). In Romania, there are some recent good practice models in this regard, accelerated also by the current pandemic context. The scope of the paper consisted in highlighting the scientific production associated to the use of UAV technology in public administration by means of bibliometric analyses. Research included three stages: a). Selection of the documents in the Scopus database, b). Data extraction and visualization and c). Interpretation of bibliometric analyses conducted. The bibliometric analyses that were conducted highlighted that the interest for this topic was relatively recent (since 1988). It was strongly customized in the North-American and North-Western European research, but this type of approach is also necessary in the South-Eastern European countries.

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