Scientometrics: Challenges and trends of the Public Administration

Abstract

The lack of competencies of public servants and researchers on the nature, current situation, challenges and trends of Public Administration limits the effectiveness and quality of public institutions and the conduct of quality research, negatively impacting the conditions of life of the population and in the advocacy process to improve the administration and management of public affairs. National and international institutions consider that Public Administration is the key to the work of governments, since it plays an essential role in the fulfillment of their mandate, which is why studying it is essential. The objective of the research is to carry out a scientometric analysis of public administration, which allows us to understand the nature, current situation, challenges, and trends of public administration. The quantitative approach was applied, a non-experimental design, cross-sectional and descriptive in scope. The scientometric analysis was carried out on 604 scientific articles on Public Administration from the Web of Science (WOS) platform, selected through a search mechanism and the VOSviewer software was applied. The results detail the application of Lotka’s law, Zipf’s law, the Hirsch index and a conceptual map that synthesizes the information. The discussion and conclusions present lines of action on the topic and point out the need to deepen the study of public administration from a systemic approach that encourages its improvement.