RESEARCH TREND ON E-DEMOCRACY PUBLICATIONS: A BIBLIOMETRIC ANALYSIS

Research related to e-democracy is now a trend carried out by scholars since the massive development of information and communication technology. The e-democracy system that continues to change and develop every year is an interesting topic to continue to be studied. The article purposes is to evaluate e-democracy research trend through bibliometric analysis techniques in the time period two decades (2001-2020). This article uses a bibliometric analysis with applied VOSviewer to provided researchers in describing data and Gephy software to map network classification. Countries in Europe and the Americas dominate the research and implementation of the e-democracy system through a smaller approach, namely, e-government. This article found 9 main clusters of 306 articles that have been comes from different countries, affiliates, and authors. This clusterization mapping was useful for future researchers in developing and discussing their research on the study of e-democracy.