Table 1.
Results of executing ST1 and ST2 in each of the selected sources.
| Search String 1 | ||||
| Base String | “The Internet of Things” | |||
| NOT | “call for papers” “editor’s note” “guest editorial” “special issue” “theme issue” | |||
| Results | Journal/Magazine | Conferences/Book chapters | Reviews | Total |
| ISI | 236 | 0 | 16 | 252 |
| Scopus | 470 | 909 | 38 | 1417 |
| ACM | 18 | 98 | 0 | 116 |
| Elsevier | 85 | 0 | 0 | 85 |
| IEEE | 111 | 571 | 0 | 682 |
| Springer | 46 | 192 | 0 | 238 |
| 966 | 1770 | 54 | 2790 | |
| Search String 2 | ||||
| Base String | “Internet of Things” OR “IoT” | |||
| AND (Title+Abstract+keywords) | “definition” | “concept” | “evolution” | “vision” |
| “story” | “approach” | |||
| Results | Journal/Magazine | Conferences/Book chapters | Reviews | Total |
| ISI | 42 | 0 | 2 | 44 |
| Scopus | 464 | 973 | 25 | 1462 |
| ACM* | 24 | 138 | 0 | 162 |
| Elsevier | 16 | 0 | 0 | 16 |
| IEEE* | 115 | 949 | 0 | 1064 |
| Springer | 92 | 310 | 0 | 402 |
| 753 | 2370 | 27 | 3150 | |