Thirty Six Years of Information Systems Management: A Bibliometric and Thematic Analysis

ABSTRACT

Following increased interests to examine key trends is IS research, this paper presents a bibliometric analysis of Information Systems Management highlighting key themes within the past 36 years, and a semantic analysis of articles’ keywords to uncover trends most influential on ISM. It considers various metrics including citation structure, and most-cited papers. The paper divides IS research into two groups of core and emerging topics, and concludes with directions for future studies in the discipline.

KEYWORDS:

• Bibliometrics
• thematic analysis
• information systems management

Notes

1. Source: https://www.tandfonline.com/toc/uism20/current [accessed in April 2020 – covering up to 2018 data].

2. Source: https://www.scimagojr.com/journalsearch.php?q=15442&tip=sid&clean=0 [accessed in April 2020 – covering up to 2018 data]. [accessed in April 2020 – covering up to 2018 data]. Journals’ profiles on Scimago website is automatically, and objectively, generated from Scopus data.

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Notes on contributors

Babak Abedin

Babak Abedin is an Associate Professor in Business Analytics in Macquarie University’s Business School. He is a fellow of University of Technology Sydney (UTS) in Australia, and holds a PhD in Information Systems from the University of New South Wales. His research focuses on the social and managerial aspects of information systems and business analytics, and has been funded by various industry and government agencies. He has contributed to academic outlets such as Internet Research, Journal of Association for Information Science & Technology, and Information Systems Frontiers as well as to professional outlets like The Conversation, ABC News, and The Australian.

Hamed Jafarzadeh

Hamed Jafarzadeh is a senior lecturer in Information Systems at the School of Management, Massey University, New Zealand. He holds a PhD in Information Systems from the University of New South Wales (UNSW), Australia. Prior to that he was an assistant professor of Information Systems at the University of Tehran, Iran, and IT Project Manager and BPM Project Manager at the University of Queensland, Australia. His main research interests include systems and software development with focus on agile approaches, business process management (BPM), text mining and sentiment analysis, and the role of behavioral traits in IT/IS adoption e.g., IT mindfulness.

Celina M Olszak

Celina M. Olszak is a professor of Computer Science and Management Information Systems at the University of Economics in Katowice, Poland. She received MSc in Computer Science from Wroclaw University of Science and Technology and was awarded PhD and a title of professor in Management Information Systems from University of Economics in Katowice. Her research focuses on decision support systems, business intelligence, big data, and artificial intelligence.