Abstract
The main purpose of this study is to explore and map the intellectual structure of information management studies during 1998-2007, by analyzing 8377 cited references of 546 articles from information management in SSCI and SCI databases. In this paper, bibliometric, multivariate analysis and social network analysis techniques are used to research intellectual structure of the information management literature. We are able to identify the important publications and the influential scholars as well as the correlations among these publications by analyzing citations and co-citations. This study provides management researchers a tool for evaluating information management publications and provides a systematic and objective means of determining the relative importance of different knowledge nodes in the development of the information management research. Five factors emerged in this study: (1) information technology service management, (2) psychology of information management, (3) information system development and acquisition, (4) database management, and (5) information system ethics.
| Original language | English |
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| Pages (from-to) | 284-297 |
| Number of pages | 14 |
| Journal | European Journal of Social Sciences |
| Volume | 12 |
| Issue number | 2 |
| State | Published - Dec 2009 |
Scopus Subject Areas
- General Social Sciences
Keywords
- Bibliometric technique
- Information management
- Intellectual structure
- Social network analysis