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ABSTRAK
Analisis Bibliometrik E-Demokrasi pada Riset Pemerintah. Penelitian ini
Diterima: bertujuan untuk mengetahui perkembangan penelitian dengan tema E-Democracy on
09-02-2021 Government dalam kurun waktu sepuluh tahun terakhir dari tahun 2011 hingga 2020
Disetujui: .Metode penelitian menggunakan penelitian kualitatif dengan kajian pustaka atau
01-04-2021 literature review. Data dikumpulkan dengan mengakses jurnal di Scopus dan diperoleh
120 artikel bersitasi tinggi dengan rentang waktu 10 tahun dari 2010 hingga 2020.
Kata kunci: Analisis data menggunakan aplikasi Vosviewer dan Nvivo 12 Plus. Hasil penelitian
E-Demokrasi menunjukan terdapat 120 jurnal yang mengkaji E-Democracy on Government pada tahun
Pemerintah 2010 hingga 2020 dengan negara penyumbang terbesar ialah United States.
Bibliometrik Government Information Quarterly menjadi jurnal yang populer dengan
pembahasan e-demokrasi terbanyak. Keterbatasan dari penelitian ini adalah artikel
yang direview hanya diperoleh dari database Scopus sehingga tidak memiliki data
pembanding. Akibatnya, studi masa depan perlu menggunakan pendekatan analisis
komparatif yang melibatkan database Scopus dan Web of Sciences (WoS)
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How to Cite: Prastya, D.E., Misran., & Nurmandia, A. (2021). A Bibliometric Analysis of E-Democracy on
Government Research. Jurnal Ilmiah Mimbar Demokrasi, 20(2), 71-80. DOI:
10.21009/jimd.v20i2.19772
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electronic means to promote and increase
citizen involvement and participation in
Introduction
government activities, programs, and decision-
The development of electronic making (Norris & Reddick 2013; Oni et al. 2016;
democracy (E-democracy) has been accepted Päivärinta dan Sæbø, 2006). These
globally as a democratic revolution regarding communication channels with the potential to
citizen participation in democratic activities. E- support citizen participation are available in
democracy can be said to be the use of developed countries and most developing and
least developed countries. These channels focus (Alcaide–Muñoz et al., 2017). The use of
include chat technology, discussion forums, software in bibliometry can also help in sorting,
electronic voting systems, group decision storing, annotating, and presenting research
support systems, and blogs (Nchise, 2012). results (Perianes-Rodriguez, Waltman, & van
Citizens and governments alike can conduct Eck, 2016)
online deliberations to shape political policies
and decisions (Moss & Coleman, 2014). Method
therefore, collaboration and creating a The research method uses qualitative research
democratic environment is a significant concern with a literature review (Moleong, 2012). A
(Kreiss, 2015). literature review is carried out to determine
The development of e-democracy is various distances or some findings that have not
undeniably the development of e-government been found in previous discoveries to become a
that promotes e-democracy (Kardan dan comparison material in conducting current
Sadeghiani, 2011). The success of e-government research. The literature review in this study is to
can be directly related to the success of e- determine the development of the study of E-
democracy (Abu-shanab, 2015). However, e- Democracy on Government. This research was
democracy projects tend to reduce costs and conducted to achieve two analyzes. The first was
increase the efficiency of existing political to explore information about the dynamics of
processes or analyze civic participation outside research E-Democracy on Government. Second,
of a specially built e-democracy platform knowing where the E-Democracy on Government
(Bastick, 2017). Besides, citizens' potential for dominant research is conducted. A literature
online participation failure may occur in e- review is the right choice to achieve the
democracy (Toots 2019). Citizen acceptance of objectives of this study. The data uses journal
online political participation can be integrated to articles in the Scopus database. As one of the
understand better citizen acceptance of e- world's largest data centers, Scopus can index
democracy (Kollmann, Kayser, & Stöckmann, scientific literature to provide accurate
2012). On the other hand, an organizational information about the metadata of each
culture that rejects bottom-up political scientific article individually, including
participation and limited consultation from local publication data, abstracts, references, and
stakeholders in crafting top-down democratic others (Fauzy, 2016). The data was selected by
innovations is a predictor of arbitrary adoption selecting the type of document in journal
of e-Democracy and self-serving institutional articles, the most cited articles, and data
behavior. Actor. In turn, this attitude results in collection from 2010 to 2020. Data analysis used
low public awareness of the e-petition system's the Vosviewer application to display a
existence, low responsiveness, and frustration of bibliometric map of the study of E-Democracy on
petitioners (Zadra, 2020). The e-democracy Government (van Eck & Waltman, 2010). Also,
index can be used to record and evaluate the researchers use the feature Auto Code in the
possibility of improving the democratic process Nvivo 12 plus software to describe the
through digitization. This is because the added categorization, relationships, and mapping of
value of the e-democracy index is that, firstly, it research development themes on E-Democracy on
provides a basis for assessing democratic Government. Furthermore, researchers also show
processes that are enhanced online (something the most dominant words/topics (Edwards-
that was previously lacking) and, second, it Jones, 2014).
allows for a more in-depth perspective on digital
processes in democracy (Kneuer, 2016). Research Finding
This study presents the trend of E- Research Developments in E-Democracy on
Democracy on Government globalizing bibliometry. Government
Bibliometry or scientometric analysis can be The results of the analysis of 120 journal articles
defined as a research area that helps analyze yielded diverse and varied data. The theme of
current trends in the literature regarding a research results on E-Democracy on Government
particular area and provides guidance and produced in the last ten years from 2010 to 2020
motivation for future research work (Muhuri, varies widely from various angles. This study
Shukla, & Abraham, 2019). Bibliometric analysis analyzes and classifies data based on annual
can be used to look for patterns, trends, and documents, document citations, authors,
niche areas in a field, subject area, and research campus affiliations, journal sources, document
2016
2010
2011
2012
2013
2015
2017
2018
2019
2020
Democracy policy in the
UK
Documents 9 Assessing (e-)Democratic 2012 33
Innovations: "Democratic
Goods" and Downing Street
Figure.1 Document by year E-Petitions
Source: Scopus Data Analysis 10 An empirical study of user 2017 28
acceptance of online
political participation:
The development of journal articles in the last
Integrating Civic
ten years has fluctuated in the number of Voluntarism Model and
documents per year. There was an increase in Theory of Reasoned Action
the number of documents from 2010 to 2012, From table 1, it can be seen that the
with five documents to 13 documents. Then it journal documents with high citation were
decreased from 2013 to 2014 with 13 published in 2012 with 160 citations. Then came
documents to 6 documents. However, it second with 113 citations published in 2013 and
increased again in 2015 with 12 documents, and 2012, with 78 citations ranking third. This shows
the peak of the highest increase was in 2018 that the last ten years of documents with many
with 14 documents. This condition shows that citations were from 2011 to 2014. Meanwhile,
the study of e-democracy is very dynamic every many researchers have studied the development
year. This also happened to document citations of e-democracy, but there are only ten authors
in the last ten years. There are ten documents with the highest number of documents in
with high citation. The document details are as Scopus. The authors are as follows.
follows.
Table 1. Document by cited Tabel 2. Authors by Document
details of affiliations can be seen in the following The Government Information Quarterly Journal
figure. is a source of productive journals every year.
There are ten documents produced from 2011
Universidade Federal do
to 2020. Then, Information Communication and
Parana Society with seven documents and six
documents from the Transforming Government
Universitat Duisburg-Essen
People Process and Policy. The details can be
Trinity College Dublin seen in the following table.
Table. 3 Journal and Total Document
Universitetet i Oslo
No Journals Document
Universita di Salerno 1 Government Information 10
Southern University and
Quarterly
A&M College 2 Information 7
Eurasian Humanities Communication and
Institute Society
University of Leeds 3 Transforming 6
Government People
Utrecht University Process and Policy
The University of Texas at 4 International Journal of 5
San Antonio
Electronic Governance
0 1 2 3 4 5 International Journal of 5
Public Administration
6 Information Polity 4
Figure 2. Document by Affiliation
Source: Scopus data Analysis 7 Journal of Information 4
Technology and Politics
Figure 2 shows that The University of 8 Electronic Government 3
Texas at San Antonio occupies the top three 9 Informacios Tarsadalom 2
10 Information Technology 2
university affiliation positions at San Antonio,
and People
Utrecht University, and the University of Leed
Journal of Government Information Quarterly
with three documents. Other universities such as
ranks first with ten documents. Followed, the
Eurasian Humanities Institute, Southern
journal Information Communication and
University and A&M College, Universita di
Society ranks second with seven documents.
Salerno, Universitetet I Oslo, Trinity College
Meanwhile, in third place is the journal
Dublin, Universitat Duisburg-Essen, and
Transforming Government, People Process and
Universidade Federal do Parana are in the fourth
Policy. Meanwhile, the International Journal of
to tenth place by having two documents.
Electronic Governance and the International
Meanwhile, judging from the journal publishing
Journal of Public Administration rank fourth
sources, teen journals have the most e-
and fifth. Not only journal sources but
democracy research documents.
document data are also categorized by document
type. There are two types, namely articles and
reviews. The percentage of document types can
be seen in the following figure:
3.3%
97.3%