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The evolution of the telecommunications policy agenda: Forty years of articles in Telecommunications Policy

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  • Gómez-Barroso, José Luis
  • Feijóo, Claudio
  • Quiles-Casas, Manuel
  • Bohlin, Erik

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This paper investigates the evolution of the telecommunications policy agenda by means of text mining forty years –from 1976 to 2016– of papers in the journal Telecommunications Policy. Text mining techniques help identify the key topics, the dominant combinations of concepts and the main areas of research within this multidisciplinary –technical, economic, social, policy– discipline. In addition they depict an evolution of the policy agenda more nuanced than the conventional public service, pre-competition and post-liberalisation stages typical of telecommunications. Also, in combination with bibliometric information, the results display the relationships between areas of research and methodologies, countries and authors’ background, all together providing a deeper understanding of the past, present and future avenues for research in telecommunications policy.

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  • Gómez-Barroso, José Luis & Feijóo, Claudio & Quiles-Casas, Manuel & Bohlin, Erik, 2017. "The evolution of the telecommunications policy agenda: Forty years of articles in Telecommunications Policy," Telecommunications Policy, Elsevier, vol. 41(10), pages 853-877.
    • Handle: RePEc:eee:telpol:v:41:y:2017:i:10:p:853-877
    DOI: 10.1016/j.telpol.2016.11.005
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    1. Lee, So-Eun & Kim, Seongcheol & Lim, Chulmin, 2019. "Special issues have got something? An overview of research trends in Telecommunications Policy special issues," 30th European Regional ITS Conference, Helsinki 2019 205192, International Telecommunications Society (ITS).
    2. Gómez-Barroso, José Luis & Marbán-Flores, Raquel, 2020. "Telecommunications and economic development – The 20th century: The building of an evidence base," Telecommunications Policy, Elsevier, vol. 44(2).
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    5. Lee, So-Eun & Kim, Seongcheol & Lim, Chulmin, 2019. "Do special issues offer something special? An overview of research trends in Telecommunications Policy special issues," Telecommunications Policy, Elsevier, vol. 43(10).
    6. Kwon, Youngsun & Kwon, Joungwon, 2017. "An overview of Telecommunications Policy's 40-year research history: Text and bibliographic analyses," Telecommunications Policy, Elsevier, vol. 41(10), pages 878-890.
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    8. Kwon, Youngsun & Kwon, Joungwon, 2017. "Telecommunications Policy: An evaluation of 40 years' research history," 28th European Regional ITS Conference, Passau 2017 169475, International Telecommunications Society (ITS).
    9. Gómez-Barroso, José Luis & Marbán-Flores, Raquel, 2020. "Telecommunications and economic development – The 21st century: Making the evidence stronger," Telecommunications Policy, Elsevier, vol. 44(2).

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