Study on the Characteristics of E-Government in China Based on Meta Analysis

640 publications from 2000 to 2009 are selected from the Chinese Social Science Citation Index database and are analyzed based on meta analysis from four aspects,including research topic,research methods,reference disciplines and units of analysis.The results show that,firstly,researches focus mainly on information resource management,information integration,performance assessment and policy suggestions for e-government,and some new researching themes has appeared;secondly,most of them use non-empirical research methods;thirdly,disciplines of references are diversifying.Information science,business administration,political science and law are the neighboring subjects;forthly,they focus on the micro-level,which lacks the researches on the medium-level(such as industry and organizational level).At last,the paper points out the characteristics of e-government researches and the future of the researches on e-government.