Public governance and accountability: A bibliometric analysis of national and international scientific publications

Abstract

The aim of this study is to investigate the articles published on Public Governance and Accountability in the Public Sector national and international journals in the area of Public Finance from 2005 to 2015. This research outlined as descriptive, exploratory bibliometric analysis qualitatively quantitative. The results show that research on that subject is scarce, for 355 articles related to the research question only 86 of them dealt with the theme, and these 12 national and 74 international. Finding the largest volume of publications in the years 2010, 2012 and 2013 with 13, 13, 11 publications respectively. The findings of this research seek to contribute to the area of Public Finance, to allow viewing of the existing scenario on specific topics. However, it is suggested new research as a means of comparison panoramas on other timelines, given the limitations of this research.

Keywords

• Governança pública
• Accountability
• Análise bibliométrica