Chan HC, Kim HW, Tan WC "Information systems citation patterns from international conference on information systems articles " JOURNAL OF THE AMERICAN SOCIETY FOR INFORMATION SCIENCE AND TECHNOLOGY 57 (9): 1263-1274 JUL 2006

[Eugene Garfield]

H.C. Chan : chanhc at comp.nus.edu.sg
H.W. Kim  : kimhw at comp.nus.edu.sg
W.C. Tan  : weaichee at yahoo.com 

Readers should be aware that the abbreviation "IS" is ambiguous and refers 
to INFORMATION SYSTEMS in this article but is widely used to refer 
to "Information Science" as well.

Title: Information systems citation patterns from international conference 
on information systems articles 

Author(s): Chan HC, Kim HW, Tan WC 

Source: JOURNAL OF THE AMERICAN SOCIETY FOR INFORMATION SCIENCE AND 
TECHNOLOGY 57 (9): 1263-1274 JUL 2006 

Document Type: Article 
Language: English 
Cited References: 19      Times Cited: 0   
     
Abstract: 
Research patterns could enhance understanding of the Information Systems 
(IS) field. Citation analysis is the methodology commonly used to determine 
such research patterns. In this study, the citation methodology is applied 
to one of the top-ranked Information Systems conferences-international 
Conference on Information Systems (ICIS). Information is extracted from 
papers in the proceedings of ICIS 2000 to 2002. A total of 145 base 
articles and 4,226 citations are used. Research patterns are obtained using 
total citations, citations per journal or conference, and overlapping 
citations. We then provide the citation ranking of journals and 
conferences. We also examine the difference between the citation ranking in 
this study and the ranking of IS journals and IS conferences in other 
studies. Based on the comparison, we confirm that IS research is a 
multidisciplinary research area. We also identify the most cited papers and 
authors in the IS research area, and the organizations most active in 
producing papers in the top-rated IS conference. We discuss the findings 
and implications of the study. 

KeyWords Plus: MIS; PUBLICATIONS; SCHOLARS; QUALITY; FORUMS 

Addresses: Chan HC (reprint author), Natl Univ Singapore, Dept Informat 
Syst, 3 Sci Dr 2, Singapore, 117543 Singapore
Natl Univ Singapore, Dept Informat Syst, Singapore, 117543 Singapore 

E-mail Addresses: chanhc at comp.nus.edu.sg, kimhw at comp.nus.edu.sg, 
weaichee at yahoo.com 

Publisher: JOHN WILEY & SONS INC, 111 RIVER ST, HOBOKEN, NJ 07030 USA 
Subject Category: COMPUTER SCIENCE, INFORMATION SYSTEMS; INFORMATION 
SCIENCE & LIBRARY SCIENCE 
IDS Number: 056JT 

ISSN: 1532-2882 

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