Information systems research in the Asia Pacific region

Figures & data

Table 1 Distribution of contributor’s nationality

Country/region	1993	1995	1997	2000	2001	2002	2003	2004	Total
	TW	SG	AUS	HK	KR	Japan	AUS	China
Australia	3	19	48	32	21	27	69	37	256
USA	26	15	13	7	6	3	6	29	105
Taiwan	20	9	2	5	6	9	11	32	94
Singapore	10	14	4	3	11	14	8	27	91
Hong Kong	5	11	8	10	7	14	11	20	86
Korea	2	3	1	7	30	5	5	16	69
China	1	3	1	2	2	5	3	47	64
Japan	4	8	6	7	6	16	3	6	56
New Zealand	0	6	5	5	3	6	8	6	39
Others	5	30	12	23	8	18	26	33	155
Total	76	118	100	101	100	117	150	253	1015

Note: Some papers have co-authors from multiple countries and hence the total number of paper counts by country is higher than the total number of published papers.

Table 2 Distribution of research topics in PACIS

Area	1993	1995	1997	2000	2001	2002	2003	2004	Total
I
Individual	2	4	9	7	15	12	11	21	81
Group	1	2	6	1	6	1	0	4	21
Organization	5	8	23	21	25	28	26	32	168
Societal	3	10	4	3	2	6	5	7	40
Subtotal	11	24	42	32	48	47	42	64	310
II
Development methods	2	13	4	8	3	6	5	7	48
System development	27	19	8	5	7	9	9	15	99
System applications	19	23	26	40	45	56	28	86	323
Subtotal	48	55	38	53	55	71	42	108	470
III
IT tools	14	14	8	4	4	5	26	29	104
IV
Management	18	21	23	21	21	8	21	48	181
V
Research methods	1	1	0	1	3	0	17	9	32
Total	92	115	111	111	131	131	148	258	1097

Note: Total number is higher than the number of papers, due to multiple areas per paper.

Table 3 Distribution of papers published in eight major IS journals

	Human		System		Technology and analysis model		Management		Research methodology and theory
	Paper counts	%	Paper counts	%	Paper counts	%	Paper counts	%	Paper counts	%
1980–1984	85	18.0	231	49.0	38	8.1	65	13.8	52	11.0
1985–1991	398	17.2	1027	44.4	262	11.3	414	17.9	212	9.2
1992–1998	740	20.9	1358	38.4	467	13.2	595	16.8	378	10.7
1999–2001	531	26.6	670	33.6	283	14.2	327	16.4	186	9.3

Source: Liang & Chen (2003).

Figure 1 Topic distributions of PACIS and major IS journal papers.

Table 4 Distribution of research methods in PACIS papers

Method	1993	1995	1997	2000	2001	2002	2003	2004	Total
Case	1	5	16	12	12	13	29	42	130
Survey	11	31	20	28	33	14	22	80	239
Experiment	16	22	20	12	22	3	5	21	121
Qualitative	3	0	2	3	5	29	20	29	91
System development	6	3	5	7	3	4	20	4	52
Problem solving	6	4	4	4	4	0	3	13	38
System application	8	16	11	19	5	0	0	14	73
Concept description	10	10	2	0	6	14	12	19	73
Other	6	6	4	1	0	25	19	0	61
Total	67	97	84	86	90	102	130	222	878

Table 5 Topic distribution of PACIS and China papers

Area	PACIS	China
I
Individual	81	2
Group	21	6
Organization	168	17
Societal	40	6
Subtotal	310	31
II
Development methods	48	11
System development	99	136
System applications	323	100
Subtotal	470	247
III
IT tools	104	54
IV
Management	181	75
V
Research methods	32	3
Total	1097	410

Table 6 Difference in research methods between PACIS and China

Method	PACIS		China
Case	130	14.8%	3	0.7%
Survey	239	27.2%	3	0.7%
Experiment	121	13.8%	0	0%
Qualitative	91	10.4%	0	0%
System development	52	5.9%	89	21.7%
Problem solving and modeling	38	4.3%	58	14.1%
System application	73	8.3%	132	32.2%
Concept description	73	8.3%	120	29.3%
Other	61	7.0%	5	1.3%
Total	878	100%	410	100%

Figure 2 Topic difference between PACIS and China.

LiangTPChenDNEvolution of information systems researchProceedings of the Seventh Pacific Asia Conference on Information Systems2003834842

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