행정학의 학문적 위신에 관한 탐색적 연구: 한국행정학보와 한국정책학회보를 중심으로

초록

Public administration enjoys interactive contributions of other disciplines in the social sciences. The purpose of this study was to examine academic influence and prestige of public administration compared to other disciplines through citation analysis. More specifically, it investigated differences between in-field citations from public administration and cross-field citations from other disciplines. For this, two top-ranked journals including Korean Public Administration Review and Korean Policy Studies Review were selected in the field of public administration. For political science and social welfare, Korean Political Science Review and Korean Journal of Social Welfare were selected respectively. A total of 2,115 articles published during 2002-2011 were analyzed in terms of the frequency of citation. The results showed that cross-field citation rates from other disciplines were higher in public administration than those in political science and social welfare, indicating interdisciplinary nature of public administration. For public administration, however, cross-field citation rates from other disciplines were much lower than in-field citation rates. While organizational theory and behavior was the most influential field to other disciplines, the current hot issues in the Public Administration,administrative reform and governance, were relatively less influential. The comparative analysis produced several lessons for academic development of public administration.

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