Security Aspects of Internet of Things aided Smart Grids: a Bibliometric Survey
It addresses security vulnerabilities in smart grids for researchers and practitioners, but is incremental as it is a survey paper.
This paper conducted a bibliometric survey on security aspects of IoT-aided smart grids, analyzing journal articles by dates, authorship, and key concepts, and summarizing cyber threats, defense mechanisms, and research gaps.
The integration of sensors and communication technology in power systems, known as the smart grid, is an emerging topic in science and technology. One of the critical issues in the smart grid is its increased vulnerability to cyber threats. As such, various types of threats and defense mechanisms are proposed in literature. This paper offers a bibliometric survey of research papers focused on the security aspects of Internet of Things (IoT) aided smart grids. To the best of the authors' knowledge, this is the very first bibliometric survey paper in this specific field. A bibliometric analysis of all journal articles is performed and the findings are sorted by dates, authorship, and key concepts. Furthermore, this paper also summarizes the types of cyber threats facing the smart grid, the various security mechanisms proposed in literature, as well as the research gaps in the field of smart grid security.