期刊名称：International Journal of Academic Research in Business and Social Sciences
电子版ISSN：2222-6990
出版年度：2021
卷号：11
期号：9
页码：1201-1215
DOI：10.6007/IJARBSS/v11-i9/10846
语种：English
出版社：Human Resource Management Academic Research Society
摘要：E-participation is one of the core issues within the E-Government domain which has emerged in the last few years. However, there are concerns regarding fragmentation of E-participation towards certain disciplines. This study aimed to find out the historical reviews, the trend of the research and identify key areas and key players in E-participation research. This study conducted a bibliometric analysis on 1122 works related to E-participation. The data was retrieved in August 2021 from a Scopus database. The evolution of E-participation was analysed by examining the number of publications, source titles, types of sources and documents and the language of the published documents. Further, the analysis of the key areas of E-participation research focused on the subject areas, most used keywords, and the title analysis. The final objective was analysed by looking into the most contributed countries in the E-participation research, the authorship and citation analysis, as well as the main institutions involved in the E-participation field of study. The study employed VOSviewer and Harzing Publish or Perish software in visualising and integrating the data, respectively. The study also analysed data using Microsoft Excel and SPSS 25.0. Findings showed that research on E-participation was started as early as 1984. The early development was very slow which caught only the attention of scholars from the West. The number of publications started to evolve in the year 2003. However, the research on this field is still inconclusive. The findings should assist future directions E-participant research and facilitate the collaboration strategies between institutions and authors.
