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EGOV 2009: Electronic Government pp 13–25Cite as

Mapping the E-Government Research with Social Network Analysis

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About fifteen years of e-government research (EGR) lead to a research field that is looking forward to define an identity as a proper and autonomous scientific discipline. This paper proposes the use of social network analysis as a methodology for building a map of EGR and consequently contributing to the process of establishing EGR identity. The paper analyzes the network of citation between authors induced by papers published in the four proceedings of this conference (International Conference on e-Government) in the period from 2005 to 2008. The analysis helps us identify the authors that had most influence on the EGR field development and relate them to the thematic topics that prevailed the conference papers in the last four years.

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  1. Faculty of Administration, Univeristy of Ljubljana, Gosarjeva 5, 1000, SI, Ljubljana, Slovenia

    Nuša Erman & Ljupčo Todorovski

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  1. Institute for IS Research, University of Koblenz-Landau, Universitätsstraße 1, 56070, Koblenz, Germany

    Maria A. Wimmer

  2. The Information School, University of Washington, 98195-2840, Seattle, WA, USA

    Hans J. Scholl

  3. Faculty of Technology, Policy, and Management, Delft University of Technology, Jaffalaan 5, 2628, Delft, BX, The Netherlands

    Marijn Janssen

  4. Institute of Informatics in Business and Government, University of Linz, Altenbergerstraße 69, 4040, Linz, Austria

    Roland Traunmüller

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Erman, N., Todorovski, L. (2009). Mapping the E-Government Research with Social Network Analysis. In: Wimmer, M.A., Scholl, H.J., Janssen, M., Traunmüller, R. (eds) Electronic Government. EGOV 2009. Lecture Notes in Computer Science, vol 5693. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-642-03516-6_2

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