Twenty years of Public Management Review (PMR): a bibliometric overview

ABSTRACT

This study aims to mark the 20th anniversary of Public Management Review (PMR) by providing a retrospective into its journey over the past 20 years using bibliometric analysis. The findings indicate that PMR has seen a great rise in both its productivity and reputation. Clustering of articles using bibliographic coupling reveals that the content of the journal is primarily focused on the issues such as interorganizational collaborations and public-private partnerships (PPPs), reforms in public management, management, leadership, governance, challenges, accountability and innovation in public service organizations. The journal has seen an expansion in themes since its inception.

KEYWORDS:

• Public management review
• bibliometric analysis
• citations
• VOSviewer
• Gephi

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Satish Kumar

Satish Kumar is Associate Professor in the Department of Management Studies, Malviya National Institute of Technology Jaipur. He has authored 45 articles in the leading outlets including Journal of Business Research, Global Business Finance, Journal of Corporate Finance, Journal of Marketing Theory and Practice, Financial Review, Review of Financial Economics. His research interest include corporate finance, bibliometric analysis, systematic literature review and survey research.

Nitesh Pandey

Nitesh Pandey is doctoral candidate in Department of Management Studies at Malaviya National Institute of Technology Jaipur (MNIT). His research interests include corporate governance, corporate finance and bibliometric analysis. His current research examines relationship between board diversity and its impact on performance of an organization. He has published bibliometric studies in such journal as Journal of Business Research and Global Finance Journal.

Arunima Haldar

Arunima Haldar (Assistant Professor, SP Jain Institute of Management and Research, India) is an avid researcher in the area of Corporate Governance and Gender in Management.She has been conferred the Global Innovation Award in the category “Writing with Integrity” by Turnitin and has been awarded the best innovative research paper at the 3rd Conference organised by Aston India Centre for Applied Research held at Aston University, England. Her doctoral work has received outstanding paper award twice in Corporate Governance Conferences and has received the best research faculty award during her tenure at NMIMS, India.