Development of Public Administration Research with a Bibliometric Analysis

Table 4

Top 20 countries/territories publishing in PA.

%resident/total
Rank	Nation	Publications	%world	Period	1998–2006	2007–2011	2012–2016
1	USA	7935	37.82	76.6	86.1	79.8	63.3
2	UK	4244	20.23	88.2	99.3	89.8	75.6
3	Canada	1582	7.54	86.6	96.7	89.5	74.4
4	Australia	1317	6.28	83.8	99.5	87.6	70.8
5	Netherland	1056	5.03	82.3	100	89.4	72.3
6	Germany	813	3.88	76.1	99.4	78.4	66.7
7	China	584	2.78	73.1	97.7	79.3	64.3
8	Denmark	437	2.08	75.1	100	77.8	66.7
9	Spain	434	2.07	69.1	100	82.2	55.4
10	Sweden	373	1.78	74	100	82.9	60.2
11	Italy	352	1.68	72.4	100	75.2	65.3
12	South Korea	352	1.68	67.3	96.9	81	58.5
13	Belgium	34	1.59	73.4	97.1	78.6	66.3
14	Norway	306	1.46	81.4	100	90.1	70.2
15	Switzerland	286	1.36	80.8	100	85.3	72.8
16	France	240	1.14	84.6	100	90.7	74.6
17	Israel	234	1.12	68.4	76.8	65.5	64.5
18	Romania	205	0.98	3.4	100	7.2	0.7
19	New Zealand	181	0.86	85.1	98.5	87.8	68.8
20	Singapore	160	0.76	65.6	100	88.5	54.4
	World	20980	100	78.3	91.4	81.9	64.5