The domain of Digital Government Research (DGR) emerged at the end of the 1990s at the intersection of several traditional academic disciplines such as information studies, information systems research, public administration studies, political science, computer science, and business administration among others. While due to their own boundary definitions none of these traditional disciplines could claim “ownership” to the emerging domain, the disciplines were jointly indispensable to provide their various perspectives. As a consequence, the study domain has evolved as a multi-disciplinary endeavor increasingly fostering interdisciplinary relationships. An important contributor to forming the Digital Government research domain in this way also appears to be attributable to the impact of the Digital Government Reference Library (DGRL), which has regularly recorded, updated, and published bibliographical references to the vast majority of peer-reviewed DG research published in the English language for over a decade and a half. Besides its original curatorial purpose of findability and ease of bibliographic organization of DGR-focused research, over the years the DGRL has increasingly also been used for the purpose of bibliometric studies of some kind and some range. This review captures and analyzes the resulting increasingly formative role of the DGRL in DGR, and it documents its increased uses.

数字政府研究 (DGR) 领域出现于 1990 年代末，是信息研究、信息系统研究、公共管理研究、政治学、计算机科学和工商管理等几个传统学科的交叉点。虽然由于它们自己的边界定义，这些传统学科都不能声称对新兴领域的“所有权”，但这些学科对于提供它们的各种观点是不可或缺的。因此，研究领域已经发展成为一项多学科努力，越来越多地促进跨学科关系。以这种方式形成数字政府研究领域的一个重要贡献者似乎也归因于数字政府参考图书馆 (DGRL) 的影响，十多年来，它定期记录、更新和出版以英文发表的绝大多数经同行评审的 DG 研究的参考书目。除了其最初的策展目的是可查找性和易于 DGR 重点研究的书目组织，多年来，DGRL 也越来越多地用于某种类型和某些范围的文献计量研究。这篇评论捕捉并分析了 DGRL 在 DGR 中日益形成的作用，并记录了其越来越多的用途。除了其最初的策展目的是可查找性和易于 DGR 重点研究的书目组织，多年来，DGRL 也越来越多地用于某种类型和某些范围的文献计量研究。这篇评论捕捉并分析了 DGRL 在 DGR 中日益形成的作用，并记录了其越来越多的用途。除了其最初的策展目的是可查找性和易于 DGR 重点研究的书目组织，多年来，DGRL 也越来越多地用于某种类型和某些范围的文献计量研究。这篇评论捕捉并分析了 DGRL 在 DGR 中日益形成的作用，并记录了其越来越多的用途。