A BIBLIOMETRIC ANALYSIS ON SCIENTIFIC PUBLICATIONS OF PUBLIC- PRIVATE PARTNERSHIP IN EDUCATION, 1993–2019

Public - private partnerships (PPPs) and public - private partnerships in education(ePPPs) have been more common than ever because of its great contributions to education development in terms of various aspects including management, maintenance and support services, operation services and infrastructure that especially this way of shared responsibilities and benefits. There are quite a few particular aspects of this sector that have been researched, but there has not been any research on PPPs in education with bibliometric method. Findings revealed that there was an upward fluctuated trend of publications published during the period, though several years had no publication. The themes of these publications were mainly macro issues relevant to policy, strategy, social-economic conditions and business-based activities. European publications had dominated the period, but there were some developing countries in Asia, Africa and America continents that had published the numbers of research papers equal to or even higher than the numbers of publications of developed countries. PPPs in education may be the effective method to be globally used as education systems have been more in the process of internationalism and globalization