Open Journal of Social Sciences, 2022, 10, 84-99 https://www.scirp.org/journal/jss ISSN Online: 2327-5960 ISSN Print: 2327-5952 DOI: 10.4236/jss.2022.101007 Jan. 13, 2022 84 Open Journal of Social Sciences An Approach to the Paradigms of Public Administration in Ecuador, from a Purely Bibliometric Study Nancy del Rocio Flores Hinojosa, Alexander Báez Hernández Administrative Sciences Department, Central University of Ecuador, Quito, Ecuador Abstract Describing the situation of the Ecuadorian Public Administration, like that of any other country, is obviously not an easy task. In the first place, due to the absence of research in this field and secondly because its problems can never be fully quantified, especially because each of them, in turn, contains a num- ber of other problems or sub-problems, weaving a true network of interrela- tionships to even shape what could be classified as a system of problems. The purpose of this scientific contribution is to show the bibliometric perfor- mance of the Public Administration paradigms. To achieve this purpose, an exhaustive bibliographic review of the literature and published articles related to this topic is carried out in the academic and research database Scopus. The results of this work expose the following points: 1) Paradigms of public ad- ministration, a strictly bibliometric analysis; 2) The public administration in Ecuador; 3) Social reality of the Ecuadorian context; 4) Reality of Public Ad- ministration at the National Level in Ecuador. The main conclusions high- light that: 1) If a comparison is made between the past and the present, public administration was not conceived as a science, much less talked about the public, the states work daily depending on the urgent activities that were ne- cessary to execute them, unaware that this theory is the foundation for the application of an order within the organization; 2) It can be established that the study of public administration is a very broad and dynamic fact to under- stand, not only because it is analyzed from the point of view of the social sciences, where the purpose is the fulfillment of collective needs, as well as also the study of the norms that must be applied for the correct development of the state apparatus studied as an activity. Keywords Political Science, State Management, People’s Power, Public Administration, How to cite this paper: del Rocio Flores Hinojosa, N., & Hernández, A. B. (2022). An Approach to the Paradigms of Public Administration in Ecuador, from a Purely Bibliometric Study. Open Journal of Social Sciences, 10, 84-99. https://doi.org/10.4236/jss.2022.101007 Received: November 11, 2021 Accepted: January 10, 2022 Published: January 13, 2022 Copyright © 2022 by author(s) and Scientific Research Publishing Inc. This work is licensed under the Creative Commons Attribution International License (CC BY 4.0). http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/ Open Access