Examining the Evolution of the Field of Public Administration through a Bibliometric Analysis of Public Administration Review

• 成果类型: Article
• 署名作者: Ni, Chaoqun; Sugimoto, Cassidy R.; Robbin, Alice
• 署名单位: Simmons University; Indiana University System; Indiana University Bloomington
• 刊物名称: PUBLIC ADMINISTRATION REVIEW
• ISSN/ISSBN: 0033-3352
• DOI: 10.1111/puar.12737
• 发表日期: 2017
• 页码: 496-509
• 关键词: productivity; practitioner; cocitation; KNOWLEDGE; faculty; SCHOLARSHIP; leadership; patterns; POLITICS; science

摘要

In 2015, Public Administration Review celebrated its 75th year of publication. For this milestone, the PAR Editorial Board selected the 75 most influential articles in the history of the journal and invited scholars to revisit a selection of these articles in order to take stock of what these articles meant for the field. Bibliometrics offers a complementary view of the history of a discipline and the evolution of its research and practice agendas through an analysis of its published literature. This article examines the changes over time in PAR from 1940 through 2013 in authorship: contributions, impact, gender composition, institutional and national affiliation, profession as scholar or practitioner, collaboration networks, and the status of the 75 influential articles. Through an extensive quantitative analysis of scholarly production, this article demonstrates PAR's centrality to the discipline of public administration and its bridging role between public administration and political science.