Jean-Francois Savard (ENAP) , Félix de la Durantaye (ENAP)
The past 15 years have seen a significant shift in the research requirements of Canadian funding agencies. Not only are we seeing increased expectations for open science, but we are also seeing more requirements and incentives for multidisciplinarity, pluridisciplinarity, and transdisciplinarity.
This presentation examines the impact of these new requirements on public administration research in Canada. More specifically, we seek to answer the following question: to what extent are the structure and configuration of public administration research networks distributed under pressure from funding agencies?We therefore seek to determine the extent to which the configuration and structure of public administration research networks are distributed, based on the hypothesis that these requirements imposed by funding agencies have encouraged the arrival of new expertise in the research fields specific to our discipline.
Based on information science tools and techniques, specifically bibliometric tools and techniques, our research will use the leading journal in our discipline in Canada, Administration Publique du Canada/Canada Public Administration, as a proxy for measuring the evolution of these networks. We do not aim to be exhaustive here. Rather, we propose to conduct exploratory research using a single proxy to determine whether our approach appears valid before extending it to other documentary sources and whether the results of the analyses promise to yield conclusions that confirm or refute our hypothesis.