Emerging trends in E-participation: a scientometric analysis in CiteSpace

Due to the increasing demand for public services, as a new form of public governance, e-participation has emerged. Mapping knowledge domains can directly reveal the research status and frontiers. We take 1322 articles on e-participation published in Web of Science from 2001 to 2017 as research object. Then run the information visualization software CiteSpace to drill deeper into the literature data. The study found that: E-participation through social media is gradually becoming the new research focus.

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