Bibliometric analysis and mapping of management information systems field

Abstract

The main aim of this study was to widelyanalyze Management Information Systems (MIS) field using bibliometric mapping.For this purpose, 222 journals, indexed in Science Citation Index Expanded(SCI-E) and Social Science Index (SSCI), were selected from Web of Science andScopus. To determine a journal corpus, expert opinions were taken to interpretthe field better. After taking expert opinions, 24 journals were chosen andanalyses were done over these journals. Firstly, 20497 English articles were collectedin these journals from Web of Science (WoS) Core Collection during the periodof 1980-2015. After text mining process, effective organizations, authors andcountries were shown on graphs by statistical analysis using BibExcel. Also,annual evolution of published papers was illustrated and trend analysis ofthese articles was interpreted. In addition to this, most cited articles weregiven. After that, by using VosViewer, the most related terms in this fieldwere obtained by co-occurrence analysis from abstracts and keywords. The termsand its clusters were illustrated on a graph. Also, density maps were utilized.The graphs and density maps were interpreted respectively in details.