Resch A. Schlogl C. " Business informatics from the perspective of its main publication organ. A scientometric analysis of the journal Wirtschaftsinformatik/ Angewandte Informatik" WIRTSCHAFTSINFORMATIK 46 (4): 302-310 AUG 2004

[Eugene Garfield]

The authors have provided a translation of the summary in English.

SUMMARY IN ENGLISH:
Summary

[This paper presents a scientometric analysis of the journal
“Wirtschaftsinformatik” (business information systems) / “Angewandte
Informatik” (applied computer science). For this purpose, a total of 23
volumes of the journal (years 1980 – 2002) were analysed manually. The
analysis focuses on the level of the journal, the articles and the authors,
as well as the institutions of the authors and the references.]

The results of this article can be summarized as follows: The author’s
analysis has shown that the writers of the journal “Wirtschaftsinformatik” /
“Angewandte Informatik” are very heterogeneous. 80% of the authors published
only one article. Like the authors the referenced journals are diversified.
The 2,165 references to journals list 524 different periodicals. The
heterogeneity of the authors and the cited journals might be primarily due
to the interdisciplinary nature of business information systems.

As expected the majority of the authors comes from the German-speaking
countries (93%) and here again from Germany. However it was a little
surprising that six of the eight most referenced journals are published in
German, too. Together with the circumstance that scholars publish primarily
in their native language, this is an indication that business information
systems has developed independently (from management information systems or
MIS) in German-speaking countries.

The journal changed continuously in the period investigated. However, as was
demonstrated by several indicators, renaming “Angewandte Informatik” into
“Wirtschaftsinformatik” (in 1990) did not result in the assumed changes. The
renaming can be seen most clearly both in a stronger quotation of journals
in the fields of business administration and MIS and in a different subject
orientation of the authors. While several scholars from computer science
rank top amongst the authors in the eighties, there are only writers from
business information systems in the following years. Furthermore, the
distribution of the referenced document types has changed. Since the end of
the nineties more and more Web documents have been referenced while the
proportion of cited journal articles has declined at the same time. It is
also worth mentioning that there was a smaller share of quoted grey
literature in comparison to the eighties.

The structure of the referenced document types shows that the topicality of
the used sources is relatively high. In this respect there is more common
ground with computer science than with business administration. In addition,
also “Wirtschaftsinformatik” (besides “Angewandte Informatik”) references
journals from computer science more frequently than those from business
administration.




Author E-mail Address :
a-resch at chello.at,
Christian.schoegl at uni-graz.at


Title   : Business informatics from the perspective of its main publication
organ. A scientometric analysis of the journal Wirtschaftsinformatik/
Angewandte Informatik

Author(s: Resch A, Schlogl C

Source  : WIRTSCHAFTSINFORMATIK 46 (4): 302-310 AUG 2004

Document Type: Article Language: German
Cited References: 14      Times Cited: 0


Abstract: This paper presents a scientometric analysis of the journal
WIRTSCHAFTSINFORMATIK / Angewandte Informatik. For this purpose, a total of
23 volumes of the journal were analysed manually. The analysis focuses on
the level of the journal, the articles and the authors, as well as the
institutions of the authors and the references.

Author Keywords: journal analysis; Wirtschaftsinformatik; business
informatics; Angewandte informatik; applied informatics; scientometrics;
citation analysis

Addresses: Resch A (reprint author), Graz Univ, Inst Informat Wissensch,
Dipl Ing, Univ Str 15-F3, Graz, A-8010 Austria
Graz Univ, Inst Informat Wissensch, Dipl Ing, Graz, A-8010 Austria



Publisher: VIEWEG, ABRAHAM-LINCOLN-STRABE 46, POSTFACH 15 47, D-65005
WIESBADEN, GERMANY

IDS Number: 850UN
ISSN: 0937-6429

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