A Bibliometric Analysis of E-Governance and ICT

Abstract

The objective of this paper is to study the trends in the research papers in last 2 decades in the area of e-governance and ICT. The present study is aimed to find the existing literature in the domain of e-governance and ICT by undertaking a bibliometric review. This work examines the research papers which were extracted from Scopus database. Scopus is one of the largest databases and it is much user friendly in terms of extracting the existing studies undertaken by other researchers. The papers extracted from Scopus were from year 2001 to 2022 and authors have used only one filter in addition to year, i.e. language as English. The authors have used VOSviewer software to generate network diagrams. The results show that there has been a significant increase in the number of research studies since 2005 onwards. Around 47.3% of research studies are published in the conference proceedings and there are around 28.5% as journal articles. Another important finding was that India was at the top of the list in terms of number of article by a country where India has 229 research papers in the area of e-governance and ICT. The study also gives an insight into the co-authorship and keyword analysis. The study is very important from the perspective that it gives a direction to the future researchers by apprising the existing studies in the area of e-governance and ICT. The study is unique in a way that it gives co-authorship and keyword analysis using VOSviewer.