A Bibliometric Analysis of Electronic Government Research

Methodology

The method utilised in this study is adapted from previous studies which have employed Bibliometrics approach to analyse literature on specific topics (Dwivedi et al. 2008abc). In line with previous studies (Dwivedi et al. 2008abc) this research also made use of the academic journals database provided by Thomson Scientific (previously known as the Institute for Scientific Information (ISI)). The Web of Science® product provides two main search-techniques i.e. ‘General Search’ and ‘Advanced Search’. The search-technique used within this research exercise was the ‘General Search’. The main reason for employing a ‘General Search’ approach was simply that its easy to use characteristics facilitate the repetition of searches without any confusion, henceforth is straightforward to obtain consistent results in repetitive searches provided the same search criteria are applied (Dwivedi et al. 2008abc).