Punching below its weight: Canadian public administration scholarship on the world stage (original) (raw)

Public Administration as an academic disicpline: Trends and changes in the COCOPS academic survey of European Public Administration scholars

2014

markdownabstract__Abstract__ This report summarises the finding from the COCOPS academic survey, a survey of public administration academics in European countries fielded in 2013. Respondents were asked to reflect on the state of the discipline and general trends within the discipline and in practice. This includes topics such as academic publishing and the reputation of journals, disciplinary affiliations, time use, research funding and emerging research topics. The paper first outlines the steps in designing and implementing the survey, along with response rates and general demographic information of respondents, including job titles, birthdates, gender, education and country of employment. Then, discussion turns to an examination of how public administration scholars rate different academic journals. Finally, the report then looks at changes in the discipline, including general trends, the relation of public administration to other academic disciplines, sources of research fundin...

Academic production patterns in Public Administration: an analysis based on Scopus

2017

This study analyzes the academic production on public administration for the period between January, 1930 and June, 2016 with emphasis on productionfrom 2010 to June 2016. For this purpose descriptive bibliometric indicators will be used: volume of production, typology of documents, number of citations, institutional affiliation of the researchers, sources, main journals, countries of origin of the researchers and the H, G, R, i10 and A indices from the records of the Scopus bibliographic index.