Mapping Productivity in Public Administration: Trends, Structures, and Emerging Themes from a Bibliometric Perspective
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Public Administration, Productivity, Bibliometric AnalysisAbstract
This study aims to examine the development, structure, and trends of the scientific literature on the concept of “productivity” in public administration. Within this scope, publications indexed in the Web of Science (WoS) database were analyzed using bibliometric analysis methods.
The dataset of the study consists of 1,378 scientific publications obtained from the Web of Science database using the keywords “Public Administration” and “Productivity.” The data were analyzed using Microsoft Excel and VOSviewer software. The analysis includes the distribution of publications by years, document types, authors, institutions, countries, and keywords, as well as co-authorship and citation network analyses.
The findings indicate that academic interest in productivity in public administration has significantly increased, particularly after the 2000s, and has shown a notable concentration after 2010. The literature is primarily structured around concepts such as performance management, performance measurement, efficiency, and organizational performance. In addition, recent studies show that themes such as sustainability, digital transformation, and innovation have become increasingly prominent.
Overall, the results reveal that productivity research in public administration has evolved from a narrow, output-oriented perspective toward a broader, multidimensional, and interdisciplinary structure.
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