Evolution of E-Government: A visual bibliometric analysis from 2013 to 2023

With the widespread use of ICT in public sector organisations, the field of e-government research has become more prominent. It should be mentioned that e-government research is still in its early stages of development. Its impact on the sudden rise in the number of scholarly articles is substantial. However, bibliometric studies that particularly target e-government research have been few during the last decade. Present study aims to show how bibliometric analysis may be used to examine the literature on e-government thoroughly. We conducted a bibliometric study on 551 papers related to e-government after conducting a scientific search strategy on the Scopus database for the years 2013-2023. Biblioshiny, a web-based application implemented in the R programming language and a component of the Bibliometrix package, was used in the study (Ariaa and Cuccurullo, 2017). The software's process automation helped identify the most important journals, authors, locations, articles, and themes. Policymakers in the e-government sector may find this paper useful for its prospective insights. Because it is bibliometric research, the current inquiry has to adhere to the rules that are common to such investigations. In order to provide a firm conceptual groundwork for future researchers, it would be beneficial to do a thorough evaluation of the relevant literature. Only the Scopus database, with its comprehensive coverage of high-quality journals and structured formats compatible with Bibliometrix, may be used for scientific mapping in this study.