Topic · Political Science and International Relations

Public Administration and Governance

Public Administration and Governance is a research topic within Political Science and International Relations. Science Explorer counts 5.9k research works in it since 1950. 9.8% of them reached the world's top 10% most cited for their field and year.

This cluster of papers covers a wide range of topics related to public policy, governance, and political systems. It includes discussions on democracy, legislation, statecraft, constitutional law, social justice, human rights, and the role of bureaucracy in governance. The papers also explore the impact of presidential government systems and analyze the evolution of public service and new right policies.

Public Policy
Governance
Democracy
Legislation
Bureaucracy
Statecraft
Constitutional Law
Social Justice
Human Rights
Political Systems

Research works: 5.9k
In the world top 10%: 576
Top-10% rate: 9.8%
Growth, 2018-21 → 2022-25: +29%
Largest producer: Türkiye

Public Administration and Governance

Which countries lead Public Administration and Governance research?

By volume, Türkiye and ?? publish the most (2k and 56 works in 2022-now).

By volume, 2022-now

1 Türkiye 2k works
2 ?? 56 works
3 United States 42 works
4 Kazakhstan 30 works
5 Azerbaijan 21 works
6 China 18 works
7 India 10 works
8 United Kingdom 9 works
9 France 8 works
10 Iran 7 works

How concentrated that is

The same countries as shares of everything the list above accounts for. A node where two countries do two thirds of the work and one spread evenly across twelve read alike as a ranking and not at all alike here.

Türkiye1,978 · 90.8%??56 · 2.6%United States42 · 1.9%Kazakhstan30 · 1.4%6 others listed73 · 3.4%

Shares of the rows listed above, not of the whole node.

Which institutions lead Public Administration and Governance research?

By volume in 2022-now, Ankara Sosyal Bilimler Üniversitesi publishes the most Public Administration and Governance research, followed by Ankara Hacı Bayram Veli University and Mi̇lli̇ Eği̇ti̇m Bakanliği.

By volume, 2022-now

1 Ankara Sosyal Bilimler ÜniversitesiTürkiye 58 works
2 Ankara Hacı Bayram Veli UniversityTürkiye 54 works
3 Mi̇lli̇ Eği̇ti̇m BakanliğiTürkiye 49 works
4 Marmara UniversityTürkiye 40 works
5 Sivas Cumhuriyet ÜniversitesiTürkiye 37 works
6 Selçuk UniversityTürkiye 35 works
7 Çanakkale Onsekiz Mart ÜniversitesiTürkiye 35 works
8 Ankara UniversityTürkiye 32 works
9 Hacettepe UniversityTürkiye 31 works
10 Istanbul Medeniyet UniversityTürkiye 29 works

What are the most cited papers in Public Administration and Governance?

The most cited paper in Public Administration and Governance is "Mobbing in the workplace by peers and managers: mobbing experienced by nurses working in healthcare facilities in Turkey and its effect on nurses" (Aytolan Yıldırım, Dilek Yildirim, 2007), with 265 citations. Next come "Faktör Analizi: Temel Kavramlar ve Ölçek Geliştirmede Kullanımı" (135) and "Democratization Reforms in Turkey, 1993–2004" (134).

Most cited papers
#	Paper	Released	Citations
1	Mobbing in the workplace by peers and managers: mobbing experienced by nurses working in healthcare facilities in Turkey and its effect on nurses Aytolan Yıldırım, Dilek Yildirim · Journal of Clinical Nursing	25 Jul 2007	265
2	Faktör Analizi: Temel Kavramlar ve Ölçek Geliştirmede Kullanımı Yrd. Doç. Dr. Şener Büyüköztürk · DergiPark (Istanbul University)	Mar 2002	135
3	Democratization Reforms in Turkey, 1993–2004 Ergun Özbudun · Turkish Studies	16 May 2007	134
4	Referendums: A Comparative Study of Practice and Theory, by Austin Ranney and David Butler Thomas E. Cronin · Political Science Quarterly	1979	96
5	Nitel Araştırmalarda Yarı-Yapılandırılmış Görüşme Soruları: Soru Form ve Türleri, Nitelikler ve Sıralama Ayşe POLAT · Anadolu Üniversitesi Sosyal Bilimler Dergisi Open access	31 Dec 2022	91

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Where is Public Administration and Governance research done?

The largest centres of Public Administration and Governance research in 2022-now are Ankara (Türkiye), Istanbul (Türkiye), Konya (Türkiye) and Izmir (Türkiye). Among places with at least 20 works in it, it is an unusually large share of all research in Kütahya.

Largest cities, 2022-now

1 AnkaraTürkiye 345 works
2 IstanbulTürkiye 300 works
3 KonyaTürkiye 71 works
4 IzmirTürkiye 63 works
5 SivasTürkiye 38 works
6 EskişehirTürkiye 35 works
7 ÇanakkaleTürkiye 35 works
8 KütahyaTürkiye 29 works
9 AlmatyKazakhstan 28 works
10 GaziantepTürkiye 27 works

Where it is the local speciality

KütahyaTR · 28.9 works114×

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Location quotient: how much more of its research is in Public Administration and Governance than the world average.

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Where is the best place to study Public Administration and Governance?

Among universities, judged by research, Suleyman Demirel University, Kütahya Dumlupınar Üniversitesi and Karamanoğlu Mehmetbey University score highest, combining excellence, specialisation, size, growth and international reach. Research strength is one signal when choosing where to study; it does not measure teaching.

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One dot per university in the first ten of the table below, at the default weights. The upper left is the interesting corner: small places doing unusually strong work.

Excellenceshare of its work in the world top 10%, 2022-now and all time averaged

40%

Specialisationhow much of its work is in this field, counted up to 10× the world share

10%

Sizeits output in this field, on a log scale

30%

Growthoutput growth, counted from -20% to +20%

10%

Internationalshare of its work with a co-author abroad

10%

Each slider sets a weight; the share it gets of the score is beside it.

#	University	Score	Top 10%	Specialisation	Works	Growth
1	Suleyman Demirel UniversityKazakhstan	58.9	16.4%	100.5×	26	+42.2%
2	Kütahya Dumlupınar ÜniversitesiTürkiye	55.8	15.3%	126.1×	29	+131.7%
3	Karamanoğlu Mehmetbey UniversityTürkiye	54.3	22.5%	69.2×	14	+19.0%
4	Ankara Hacı Bayram Veli UniversityTürkiye	52.3	10.8%	198.6×	54	+114.2%
5	Mardin Artuklu UniversityTürkiye	52.0	26.2%	55.2×	9	+159.3%
6	Başkent UniversityTürkiye	51.5	23.7%	32.6×	9	+164.0%
7	Ankara Sosyal Bilimler ÜniversitesiTürkiye	50.6	11.3%	184.4×	58	-1.6%
8	Sivas Cumhuriyet ÜniversitesiTürkiye	49.9	11.1%	77.1×	37	+211.5%
9	Hacettepe UniversityTürkiye	49.4	12.8%	32.5×	31	+13.9%
10	Dokuz Eylül UniversityTürkiye	48.5	12.0%	50.7×	29	+19.5%
11	Selçuk UniversityTürkiye	48.3	10.1%	58.9×	35	+34.4%
12	Tarsus UniversityTürkiye	45.8	19.6%	94.2×	10	+436.4%
13	Recep Tayyip Erdoğan UniversityTürkiye	44.7	16.0%	62.8×	18	+166.0%
14	Kırıkkale UniversityTürkiye	44.5	10.3%	81.7×	20	+70.9%
15	Giresun UniversityTürkiye	44.0	21.2%	55.5×	13	-4.4%
16	Mersin ÜniversitesiTürkiye	43.7	8.7%	59.9×	19	+65.3%
17	Düzce ÜniversitesiTürkiye	43.3	12.1%	72.7×	22	+79.0%
18	Çanakkale Onsekiz Mart ÜniversitesiTürkiye	42.9	9.2%	72.2×	34	+48.7%
19	Ondokuz Mayıs UniversityTürkiye	42.3	13.5%	32.1×	17	+87.6%
20	Gaziantep UniversityTürkiye	42.1	11.6%	62.0×	21	+35.6%
21	Artvin Coruh UniversityTürkiye	42.0	21.2%	88.3×	11	+32.7%
22	Sağlık Bilimleri ÜniversitesiTürkiye	41.2	7.7%	19.6×	21	+39.0%
23	Dicle UniversityTürkiye	41.0	13.0%	57.9×	18	+86.3%
24	Adnan Menderes UniversityTürkiye	40.5	12.7%	55.0×	17	+35.7%
25	Police AcademyTürkiye	39.6	18.4%	402.4×	9	+161.2%
26	Necmettin Erbakan UniversityTürkiye	38.9	9.5%	57.5×	26	+42.8%
27	Burdur Mehmet Akif Ersoy ÜniversitesiTürkiye	38.9	10.5%	73.9×	21	+27.5%
28	Atatürk UniversityTürkiye	38.8	9.0%	36.6×	25	+67.0%
29	Akdeniz UniversityTürkiye	38.7	9.6%	34.9×	16	+54.3%
30	İstanbul Sabahattin Zaim ÜniversitesiTürkiye	38.6	19.2%	83.4×	9	+23.6%
31	Gazi UniversityTürkiye	38.2	13.2%	24.1×	22	-10.1%
32	Ankara UniversityTürkiye	37.9	6.1%	38.3×	32	-18.1%
33	Istanbul Medeniyet UniversityTürkiye	37.7	6.9%	121.6×	29	+219.9%
34	Istanbul UniversityTürkiye	37.4	11.8%	33.8×	24	-8.8%
35	Marmara UniversityTürkiye	37.0	8.7%	59.5×	40	-26.8%
36	Sakarya UniversityTürkiye	36.5	9.7%	49.4×	26	-7.9%
37	Istanbul Medipol UniversityTürkiye	36.4	14.2%	37.3×	11	+180.7%
38	Siirt ÜniversitesiTürkiye	36.2	13.1%	53.1×	9	+104.9%
39	Yozgat Bozok ÜniversitesiTürkiye	36.1	8.6%	70.7×	19	+85.0%
40	Çankırı Karatekin UniversityTürkiye	35.3	10.2%	100.2×	18	+196.6%
41	İstanbul Nişantaşı ÜniversitesiTürkiye	17.6	4.0%	84.9×	9	+522.7%
42	Istanbul Commerce UniversityTürkiye	10.0	0.6%	90.0×	11	-32.6%

Universities only. The score blends excellence (40%), size (30%), specialisation (10%), growth (10%), international reach (10%), 2022-now; growth compares 2018-21 with 2022-25 and counts up to +20%, since a jump from a small base is mostly noise.

Every institution in Public Administration and Governance, country by country

Is Public Administration and Governance research growing?

Output in 2022-2025 was 29% higher than in 2018-2021, peaking in 2023. The fastest-growing topics are Public Administration and Governance.

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The same series as a ribbon: one cell per year, darker for more. The line above answers how much; this answers when.

Its share of all research

Growing output can still be a shrinking share: all of science grows. This is Public Administration and Governance as a percentage of every work published that year, 0.0090% in 2024.

Fractional works of Public Administration and Governance over all fractional works that year. How the balance of science has shifted.

How much of it reaches the world top 10%

Year by year.

Of each year's works in it, the share that reached the world's 10% most cited for their field and year. A field is the world for its own topics, so there is no other line to hold it against.

Which topics inside it are moving

Growth and decline on one axis around a shared zero. Two lists side by side hide the thing that matters: whether the growth dwarfs the decline, or the other way round.

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Which countries lead Public Administration and Governance research?

By volume, 2022-now

How concentrated that is

Which institutions lead Public Administration and Governance research?

By volume, 2022-now

What are the most cited papers in Public Administration and Governance?

Where is Public Administration and Governance research done?

Largest cities, 2022-now

Where it is the local speciality

Where is the best place to study Public Administration and Governance?

Is Public Administration and Governance research growing?

Its share of all research

How much of it reaches the world top 10%

Which topics inside it are moving

Related research

Discussion