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Big Data and Business Intelligence

Big Data and Business Intelligence is a research topic within Management Information Systems. Science Explorer counts 59k research works in it since 1950. 10.1% of them reached the world's top 10% most cited for their field and year.

This cluster of papers explores the impact of big data analytics on business performance, with a focus on supply chain management, predictive analytics, data science, and decision support systems. It delves into the challenges and opportunities of leveraging big data for firm performance and sustainability, as well as the integration of business intelligence and knowledge management. The research also examines the role of big data in innovation, risk mitigation, and operational transparency within organizations.

  • Big Data
  • Analytics
  • Business Intelligence
  • Supply Chain Management
  • Predictive Analytics
  • Data Science
  • Firm Performance
  • Decision Support Systems
  • Data Warehousing
  • Sustainability
Research works
59k
fractional, since 1950
In the world top 10%
6k
per year above
Top-10% rate
10.1%
share of its works in the world top 10%
Growth, 2018-21 → 2022-25
+67%
the tick is no change
Largest producer
United States
28% of the 10 largest, 2022-now
Big Data and Business Intelligence

Which countries lead Big Data and Business Intelligence research?

By volume, the United States and India publish the most (3.8k and 2.8k works in 2022-now).

By volume, 2022-now

  1. 1 United States 3.8k works
  2. 2 India 2.8k works
  3. 3 China 1.7k works
  4. 4 Indonesia 1.4k works
  5. 5 Brazil 921 works
  6. 6 United Kingdom 818 works
  7. 7 Germany 812 works
  8. 8 Italy 427 works
  9. 9 Malaysia 406 works
  10. 10 Canada 327 works

How concentrated that is

The same countries as shares of everything the list above accounts for. A node where two countries do two thirds of the work and one spread evenly across twelve read alike as a ranking and not at all alike here.

United States: 28.3%India: 20.9%China: 12.9%Indonesia: 10.3%6 others listed: 27.6%28%largest
United States3,802 · 28.3%India2,815 · 20.9%China1,734 · 12.9%Indonesia1,383 · 10.3%6 others listed3,710 · 27.6%

Shares of the rows listed above, not of the whole node.

Which institutions lead Big Data and Business Intelligence research?

By volume in 2022-now, Film Independent publishes the most Big Data and Business Intelligence research, followed by Binus University and Symbiosis International University.

By volume, 2022-now

  1. 1 Film IndependentUnited States 155 works
  2. 2 Binus UniversityIndonesia 105 works
  3. 3 Symbiosis International UniversityIndia 82 works
  4. 4 Chandigarh UniversityIndia 69 works
  5. 5 SRM Institute of Science and TechnologyIndia 65 works
  6. 6 University of IndonesiaIndonesia 62 works
  7. 7 Telkom UniversityIndonesia 59 works
  8. 8 University of JohannesburgSouth Africa 58 works
  9. 9 Islamic Azad University, TehranIran 53 works
  10. 10 Christ UniversityIndia 50 works

Who are the leading researchers in Big Data and Business Intelligence?

The most-cited researchers publishing on Big Data and Business Intelligence include Trevor Hastie.

  1. 1 Trevor Hastie United States 301k citations

Ranked by citations received across their whole record, among researchers with at least three works on this topic.

What are the most cited papers in Big Data and Business Intelligence?

The most cited paper in Big Data and Business Intelligence is "Review : Knowledge Management and Knowledge Management Systems: Conceptual Foundations And Research Issues1,2" (Maryam Alavi, Dorothy E. Leidner, 2001), with 10,112 citations. Next come "Structural Equation Modeling and Regression: Guidelines for Research Practice" (6,423) and "Business Intelligence and Analytics: From Big Data to Big Impact" (6,224).

Most cited papers
#PaperReleasedCitations
1 Review : Knowledge Management and Knowledge Management Systems: Conceptual Foundations And Research Issues1,2 Maryam Alavi, Dorothy E. Leidner · MIS Quarterly Mar 2001 10,112
2 Structural Equation Modeling and Regression: Guidelines for Research Practice David Gefen, Detmar W. Straub, Marie‐Claude Boudreau · Communications of the Association for Information Systems Open access 2000 6,423
3 Business Intelligence and Analytics: From Big Data to Big Impact Hsinchun Chen, Roger H.L. Chiang, Veda C. Storey · MIS Quarterly Dec 2012 6,224
4 Task-Technology Fit and Individual Performance Dale L. Goodhue, Ronald L. Thompson · MIS Quarterly Jun 1995 5,948
5 Digital transformation: A multidisciplinary reflection and research agenda Peter C. Verhoef, Thijs Broekhuizen, Yakov Bart et al. · Journal of Business Research Open access 3 Nov 2019 5,424
All 99 most cited papers, with filters and sorting

Where is Big Data and Business Intelligence research done?

The largest centres of Big Data and Business Intelligence research in 2022-now are Jakarta (Indonesia), Beijing (China), Chennai (India) and Bengaluru (India). Among places with at least 20 works in it, it is an unusually large share of all research in Williamsburg and Beaumont.

Largest cities, 2022-now

  1. 1 JakartaIndonesia 285 works
  2. 2 BeijingChina 281 works
  3. 3 ChennaiIndia 242 works
  4. 4 BengaluruIndia 215 works
  5. 5 PuneIndia 202 works
  6. 6 LondonUnited Kingdom 202 works
  7. 7 Los AngelesUnited States 200 works
  8. 8 New YorkUnited States 185 works
  9. 9 BandungIndonesia 183 works
  10. 10 São PauloBrazil 156 works

Where it is the local speciality

  1. WilliamsburgUS · 36.7 works39×
  2. BeaumontUS · 31.3 works32×
← less than its size predicts1×more →

Location quotient: how much more of its research is in Big Data and Business Intelligence than the world average.

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Where is the best place to study Big Data and Business Intelligence?

Among universities, judged by research, Jadara University, Abu Dhabi University and Middle East University score highest, combining citation excellence, specialisation, size, growth and international reach. Research strength is one signal when choosing where to study; it does not measure teaching.

0%25%50%mean 28%fractional works in this field (log) →share of work in the world top 10% →Jadara UniversityMiddle East UniversityAbu Dhabi UniversitySymbiosis Internatio…
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One dot per university in the first ten of the table below, at the default weights. The upper left is the interesting corner: small places doing unusually strong work.

Citation excellenceshare of its work in the world top 10%, 2022-now and all time averaged
40%
Specialisationhow much of its work is in this field, counted up to 10× the world share
10%
Sizeits output in this field, on a log scale
30%
Growthoutput growth, counted from -20% to +20%
10%
Internationalshare of its work with a co-author abroad
10%
Each slider sets a weight; the share it gets of the score is beside it.
#UniversityScoreTop 10%SpecialisationWorksGrowth
1Jadara UniversityJordan 63.658.2%15.4×11 -
2Abu Dhabi UniversityUnited Arab Emirates 60.343.0%7.9×11 +136.8%
3Middle East UniversityJordan 58.451.2%12.6×9 -
4Symbiosis International UniversityIndia 58.312.9%13.4×82 +471.6%
5Lamar UniversityUnited States 58.028.5%36.0×31 +2219.6%
6University of JohannesburgSouth Africa 57.415.8%5.1×58 +179.7%
7Lappeenranta-Lahti University of TechnologyFinland 54.424.5%11.8×22 +40.5%
8University of the CumberlandsUnited States 53.218.8%47.4×37 +242.9%
9Binus UniversityIndonesia 52.41.7%10.6×106 +35.8%
10Hong Kong Polytechnic UniversityChina 52.125.4%1.4×23 +124.5%

Universities only. The score blends citation excellence (40%), size (30%), specialisation (10%), growth (10%), international reach (10%), 2022-now; growth compares 2018-21 with 2022-25 and counts up to +20%, since a jump from a small base is mostly noise.

Every institution in Big Data and Business Intelligence, country by country

Is Big Data and Business Intelligence research growing?

Output in 2022-2025 was 67% higher than in 2018-2021, peaking in 2025. The fastest-growing topics are Big Data and Business Intelligence.

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The same series as a ribbon: one cell per year, darker for more. The line above answers how much; this answers when.

Its share of all research

Growing output can still be a shrinking share: all of science grows. This is Big Data and Business Intelligence as a percentage of every work published that year, 0.11% in 2024.

still counting0.050%0.10%0.15%Big Data and Business Intelligence0.11% in 202519801990200020102020

Fractional works of Big Data and Business Intelligence over all fractional works that year. How the balance of science has shifted.

How much of it reaches the world top 10%

Year by year.

still counting5%10%15%Big Data and Business Intelligence10.3% in 2025200020102020

Of each year's works in it, the share that reached the world's 10% most cited for their field and year. A field is the world for its own topics, so there is no other line to hold it against.

Which topics inside it are moving

Growth and decline on one axis around a shared zero. Two lists side by side hide the thing that matters: whether the growth dwarfs the decline, or the other way round.

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