ANALYZING THE EVOLUTION OF DIGITALIZED GOVERNANCE RESEARCH: INSIGHTFUL PUBLICATION TRENDS AND GAPS

Abstract

The paper attempts to throw light on the publication trends of digitalized governance by using a more inclusive approach of using keywords such as “e-governance”, “digital governance” and “smart governance”. By searching and extracting the relevant records from the Web of Science (WOS) Core Collection, the paper conducted bibliometric analysis on 1154 selected records that met the selection criteria. The analysis revealed that the number of publications is increasing on yearly basis in the past 5 years. This could be attributed to growing interest of researchers in this subject as well as an escalating concern among the scholars regarding increasing social issues and public awareness towards them. Similarly, most of the paper were published in China, the United State of America and India, with a substantial contribution from the Western and Central regions of Europe. Therefore, the paper emphasizes on disparities in the literature of this field and based on an in-depth analysis, concludes that future scholars should focus more on the collaboration of multiple stakeholders while studying digitalized governance.