BIBLIOMETRIC ANALYSIS OF PUBLIC BUDGET ARTICLE IN SCOPUS USING SOSIAL NETWORK ANALYSIS

Abstract

The aim of this study was to analyse the bibliographic characteristics and content of articles on public budget published in journals indexed by Scopus written by researchers from throughout the world from 2011 to 2022. We conducted a bibliometric and content analysis of publication in the Scopus database. We only retrieved articles written in English. We conducted content analysis using the VOSviewer software and visualized the co-occurrence of keywords and bibliographic coupling of sources and countries. Following the study protocol, we found 290 articles on public budget over the past 11 years. The most productive journal that published these articles was Revista de Administracao Publica (n = 7). The post productive country was the United Kingdom (n = 82). Based on cititations, the most influential authors were Z. Hessami (n = 70). The keywords of research on public budget 14 clusters (e.g budget, public budget, analysis, impact, public health, public policy, case, budget impact analysis). From a global perspective, public budget research in the past one decade has increased significantly. There were United Kingdom published journals ominated publications. Thus, Asian country need to conduct more active research on this topic.