In the Public Administration, What Is Researched? A Review

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.