TITLE:
In the Public Administration, What Is Researched? A Review
AUTHORS:
Alexander Báez Hernández
KEYWORDS:
Public Administration, Literature Review, Research Trends Scopus, Web of Science
JOURNAL NAME:
Open Journal of Social Sciences,
Vol.10 No.5,
May
13,
2022
ABSTRACT: Determining the researching issue in public administration by
bibliometric analysis was the paper objective. The methodology utilized was as
follows: Scopus, Web of Science, ScienceDirect and Google Scholar were the
sources. In order to do a bibliometric analysis was took the first and second
sources. Instead, the
third and four sources provide the referential searches. The metadata,
generated from search criteria, was imported by VOSviewer program let it to
build three bibliometric maps. The evidence was displayed by a bibliometric
graphics group. It was the publications growth on the subject, and its
concentration in universities from developed countries, headed by the US; the
relationship of the Public Administration with other areas in terms of
scientific production; the most productive authors and journals with the
greatest impact on the subject. The maps, detection of the most recurrent terms
and their networks in the titles of research, co-occurrence and networks of
keywords, and networks of authors were obtained from Vosviewer program running the seminal articles, 5
originals, 8 revisions and
the 10 most cited books were determined. Interesting areas and emerging niches
in the Public Administration investigation were visualized.