Partnership between government and non-profit sector as an object of sociological research: Bibliometric analysis of current trends in the global scientific community

About the authors:

Daria F. Telepaeva, Assistant, Department of Sociology and Technologies of State and Municipal Administration, Ural Federal University named after the first President of Russia B. N. Yeltsin (Yekaterinburg); daria.telepaeva@urfu.ru

Anna N. Tarasova, Cand. Sci. (Soc.), Associate Professor, Department of Sociology and Technology of State and Municipal Management, Ural Federal University (Yekaterinburg); ORCID: 0000-0002-9448-2893, Scopus Author ID: 57201826388, WoS ResearcherID: B-1811-2017, SPIN: 1228-4836, a.n.tarasova@urfu.ru

Maria V. Pevnaya, Dr. Sci. (Soc.), Associate Professor, Head of the Department of Sociology and Technology of Public Administration, Ural Federal University named after the first President of Russia B. N. Yeltsin (Yekaterinburg); m.v.pevnaya@urfu.ru; ORCID: 0000-0001-5539-5722

Abstract:

Cross-sectoral social partnership between government and non-profit sector is a fairly popular object of modern research in the field of sociology, economics and law. The study of this phenomenon originates in the second half of the 20th century, but the publication growth has occurred in the last decade, when the theories of cross-sectoral partnership justified their existence and began to bring tangible benefits to all participants of cooperation. Despite a sufficient number of publications, research interest in this topic is manifested mainly in Western scientific works. However, in the current turbulent conditions of forced isolation of our country, theoretical and empirical studies of cross-sectoral partnership are seen as very important for solving socially significant tasks of society. The purpose of the article is to determine the place of research on the interaction of the state and the non-profit sector in modern scientific works based on bibliometric analysis of publication data. The empirical study was conducted based on Scopus database in three stages: the selection of documents by keywords, the restriction of selected publications by branches of knowledge (social sciences) and the selection of documents corresponding to the types of “article” and “scientific review”. The final sample consisted of 819 documents, which were analyzed using the VOSviewer software (version 1.6.18). Authors identify the leaders of this research area among individual universities and countries. The most cited publications were analyzed, as well as thematic areas and their chronology were identified based on the construction of mental maps. The results obtained make it possible to determine the degree of study of the phenomenon under consideration, to identify problem fields and promising areas in the study of cross-sectoral social partnership between government and non-profit sector.

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