Policy advisory systems and public policy making: Bibliometric analysis, knowledge mapping, operationalization, and future research agenda

This study offers a comprehensive overview of the literature on policy advisory systems (PAS), motivated by its significance, growing interest in the field among policy scholars, and the substantial body of recent research published recently. The study conducted a quantitative bibliometric analysis of 62 articles on PAS published between 1993 and 2022, using data extracted from the Web of Science and Scopus databases. The analysis included performance analysis, collaboration analysis, and science mapping (co‐citation and co‐word analysis). The dataset comprises articles published in 29 different journals, with 17.2% of these journals publishing three or more articles on PAS. Of the 80 authors in the dataset, 78.8% had only one publication. Over the past 5 years, there has been a 69% increase in the production of research on PAS, with the majority of output coming from Canada, Australia, Germany, and the Netherlands. The intellectual structure of the field was examined through co‐citation analysis, revealing two main clusters named dynamics of PAS and Policy Advice & Policy Analysts' Role. The former focuses on the variations and dynamics of PAS, while the latter is more concerned with the nature of policy advice and the role of policy analysts. The co‐word analysis identified the most relevant issues linked with PAS, including policy advice, externalization, politicization, and policy capacity. The study has also provided operationalization of the concept with the support of empirical evidence and categorized it into internal and external PAS. Externalization is the dominant trend in Anglophone countries, while public service in Europe and Canada has been the focus of internal PAS research. The study identifies gaps in the literature and calls for further research on the application of PAS in the Global South, the demand for policy advice, and comparative analysis of PAS across different contexts and dimensions. 摘要 鉴于政策咨询系统(PAS)的重要性、政策学者对该领域日益增长的兴趣、以及近年来发表的大量相关研究，本研究全面概述了PAS文献。通过使用从科学网(WoS)和 Scopus数据库中提取的数据，本研究对1993‐2022年间发表的62篇PAS文章进行了定量文献计量分析。分析包括了绩效分析、协作分析以及科学知识图谱(共引分析和共词分析)。数据集包含发表在29本不同期刊上的文章，其中17.2%的期刊就PAS发表了三篇或更多文章。数据集包含的80位作者中，78.8%的作者只发表过一篇文章。过去五年，关于PAS的研究产出增加了69%，其中大部分产出来自加拿大、澳大利亚、德国与荷兰。通过共引分析研究了该领域的知识结构，揭示了两个主要集群，它们分别被命名为PAS动态、“政策建议与政策分析师”作用。前者侧重于PAS的变化和动态，而后者更关注政策建议的性质和政策分析师的作用。共词分析确定了与PAS最为相关的问题，包括政策建议、外部化、政治化和政策能力。本研究还在实证证据的支持下对此概念加以操作化，并将其分为内部和外部PAS。外部化是英语国家的主要趋势，而欧洲和加拿大的公共服务一直是内部PAS研究的重点。最后，本研究强调了一系列文献空白，包括需要研究PAS在全球南方的应用、政策建议的需求侧、以及PAS不同情境