Full Paper: Artificial Intelligence, Big Data, Cloud Computing, and Internet of Things as Emerging ICT For Sustainability

A large number of publications in databases such as Web of Science or Scopus point to the growing interest of scientists in the importance of emerging Information and Communications Technologies (EICT) for ensuring sustainable development (SD). The study concept was inspired by the authors\u27 experiences and the previous study results, which aimed at providing a holistic view of the importance and scope of ICT research in the SD context. This article describes the study focusing on recognizing the state of research on artificial intelligence, big data, cloud computing, and the Internet of Things (the 4top EICT) adoption in 20 various sustainability areas. The methodology involved bibliometric analysis and the VOSviewer tool. The results show that the highest relevance of the 4top EICT lies in the 7 SD areas identified as cities, production, energy, ecology and environment, urban development, agriculture and food, and logistics. The dominant technology is IoT, which was described in nearly 1,000 articles about sustainability. Energy is an area where the greatest complementarity of the 4top EICT was found