Governmental management of social housing as an element of state social policy: Bibliometric analysis

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Social housing for socially vulnerable segments of the population is a significant component of governmental social policy, as it is directly linked to demographic and migration processes, socially vulnerable groups and people with special needs, poverty alleviation, social integration, and community development. The study conducts a bibliometric analysis (using VOSviewer tools) of the scientific literature on social housing policy and management. The study filtered more than 6,000 research papers indexed in the Scopus database from 1983 to 2024. The purpose was to structure the global scientific knowledge on governmental management of social housing as an element of the state’s social policy, focusing on the following directions. The first is the evolution of scientific thought. The analysis revealed a rapid growth in scientific interest starting from 1991; the earliest articles were published in the United Kingdom, Netherlands, and the United States, while scholars from Spain, Mexico, and Italy joined after 2020. The second is the complexity or conversely – concentration of research networks. The top five countries by the number of works are the United Kingdom, Australia, the Netherlands, Italy, and the United States; the most powerful research schools are in the Netherlands, Australia, and the United Kingdom; the most extensive scientific connections are held by the Netherlands, the United States, the United Kingdom, Italy, and France. The third is the content-thematic orientation of the research. The paper identified the predominance of works from social sciences; social housing issues are most frequently studied in connection with public health and inequality issues.

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    • Figure 1. Changes in studying management of state policy in the field of social housing
    • Figure 2. Authors-leaders of research in the field of governmental management in the field of social housing
    • Figure 3. Branch affiliation of scientific works on policy in the field of social housing
    • Figure 4. Geographic affiliation of scientific works on policy management in the field of social housing
    • Figure 5. Institutional affiliation of scientific works on governmental management in the field of social housing
    • Figure 6. Bibliometric network of co-authorship of scientific works on the management of state policy in the field of social housing: Cross-section of countries
    • Figure 7. Bibliometric network of co-authorship of scientific works on the management of state policy in the field of social housing: Cross-section of countries in time section
    • Figure 8. Bibliometric network of clusters of scientific works on the management of state policy in the field of social housing: Formed by keywords
    • Figure 9. Bibliometric network of clusters of scientific works on the management of state policy in the field of social housing: Bibliographic coupling
    • Table 1. Quantitative bibliometric analysis of scientific publications on the main categories of social housing management
    • Table 2. Description of the clusters formed by the co-author countries
    • Table 3. Combinations of keywords in research clusters
    • Conceptualization
      Fidan Mammadova, Nargiz Fatahova
    • Formal Analysis
      Fidan Mammadova, Nargiz Fatahova
    • Investigation
      Fidan Mammadova, Nargiz Fatahova, Shukur Aliyev
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      Fidan Mammadova, Nargiz Fatahova
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      Fidan Mammadova, Shukur Aliyev
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      Fidan Mammadova, Nargiz Fatahova
    • Writing – original draft
      Fidan Mammadova
    • Project administration
      Nargiz Fatahova, Shaban Mammadov, Ruslan Gasimov
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      Nargiz Fatahova, Shaban Mammadov, Ruslan Gasimov, Shukur Aliyev
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      Shaban Mammadov, Ruslan Gasimov, Shukur Aliyev
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      Shaban Mammadov, Ruslan Gasimov
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