Abstract
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.
Highlights
E-participation is a process to encourage and support participation among stakeholders through technology
The main objective is to get a clearer understanding on historical reviews, development trend, and forecast on the Eparticipation literature
Several authors wrote articles related to E-participation with a mean collaboration index of 2.65 authors per article
Summary
E-participation is a process to encourage and support participation among stakeholders through technology. One of the challenges of conducting E-participation research is to robustly capture the rich context interaction between people and government (Yusuf et al, 2021). A related challenge is to understand the role of technologies in people-government interaction. E-participation aims at encouraging public participation through technology to ensure that the government’s decisions are more legitimate and publicly supported (Macintosh, 2004). E-participation is significant for educating people about the complex process of policy-making to enhance people’s understanding and awareness about the rationale of the produced policy. Its implementation is a matter of technological ability or the participation process itself; instead, it is a combination of a complex factor that affects the participation process. Most of the previous frameworks only capture a specific domain without realising that it is connected to other factors (Yusuf et al, 2020)
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