Building the Academic Community of E-Government Research on Cross-Boundary Information Integration and Sharing

This paper presents the result of a network analysis on cumulative studies addressing issues of data integration, information sharing, knowledge network, and technical interoperability, which we consider as key themes of cross-boundary information integration and sharing for e-government. The network analysis explores the academic community of e-government research pertinent to those four topics. We profiled conference papers and journal articles included in the e-government research database that the Digital Government Society of North America released in March, 2011. This study found the lack of connections among scholars in the research community in terms of publication outlets and research themes. The paper also discusses potential reasons of the disconnected pattern in collaborative research.

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