Most cited papers in Business Process Modeling and Analysis
What are the most cited papers in Business Process Modeling and Analysis?
The most cited paper in Business Process Modeling and Analysis is "Harvard Business Review" (J. Scott Armstrong, David M. Georgoff, 1988), with 18,225 citations. Next come "Petri nets: Properties, analysis and applications" (10,641) and "Design science in information systems research" (7,717).
Showing 50 of 100 papers. Every paper with more than 685 citations is listed.
| # | Paper | ||
|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Harvard Business Review J. Scott Armstrong, David M. Georgoff · International Journal of Forecasting | 1988 | 18,225 |
| 2 | Petri nets: Properties, analysis and applications Tadao Murata · Proceedings of the IEEE | Apr 1989 | 10,641 |
| 3 | Design science in information systems research Alan R. Hevner, Salvatore T. March, Jinsoo Park et al. · Journal of the Association for Information Systems | Mar 2004 | 7,717 |
| 4 | Ontologies: principles, methods and applications Mike Uschold, Michael Grüninger · The Knowledge Engineering Review | Jun 1996 | 3,520 |
| 5 | The interdisciplinary study of coordination Thomas W. Malone, Kevin Crowston · ACM Computing Surveys | Mar 1994 | 3,479 |
| 6 | Clarifying Business Models: Origins, Present, and Future of the Concept Alexander Osterwalder, Yves Pigneur, Christopher L. Tucci · Communications of the Association for Information Systems | 2005 | 3,350 |
| 7 | The Nature of Theory in Information Systems1 Shirley Gregor · MIS Quarterly | Sep 2006 | 3,296 |
| 8 | Positioning and Presenting Design Science Research for Maximum Impact1 Shirley Diane Gregor, Alan R. Hevner · MIS Quarterly | Jun 2013 | 3,025 |
| 9 | Laboratory life: The social construction of scientific facts James Bliss Austin · Social Science & Medicine | 1982 | 2,910 |
| 10 | Digital Transformation Strategies Christian Matt, Thomas H. Hess, Alexander Benlian · Business & Information Systems Engineering | 3 Aug 2015 | 2,890 |
| 11 | THE APPLICATION OF PETRI NETS TO WORKFLOW MANAGEMENT Wil M. P. van der Aalst · Journal of Circuits Systems and Computers | Feb 1998 | 2,707 |
| 12 | Workflow Patterns Wil M. P. van der Aalst, Arthur H. M. ter Hofstede, Bartek Kiepuszewski et al. · Distributed and Parallel Databases | 4 Apr 2003 | 2,612 |
| 13 | Supply Chain Management: Implementation Issues and Research Opportunities Douglas M. Lambert, Martha C. Cooper, Janus Dóre Pagh · The International Journal of Logistics Management | Jul 1998 | 2,426 |
| 14 | DAML-S: Semantic Markup For Web Services Anupriya Ankolekar, Mark H. Burstein, Jerry R. Hobbs et al. | 2001 | 2,415 |
| 15 | Workflow mining: discovering process models from event logs Wil M. P. van der Aalst, Ton Weijters, Laura Măruşter · IEEE Transactions on Knowledge and Data Engineering | 27 Jul 2004 | 2,205 |
| 16 | Two Types of Bureaucracy: Enabling and Coercive Paul S. Adler, Bryan Borys · Administrative Science Quarterly | Mar 1996 | 2,191 |
| 17 | Semantic Matching of Web Services Capabilities Massimo Paolucci, Takahiro Kawamura, Terry R. Payne et al. · Lecture notes in computer science | 2002 | 2,120 |
| 18 | Communicating sequential processes Roger Boyle · Data Processing | Sep 1985 | 2,039 |
| 19 | An algorithmic framework for performing collaborative filtering Jonathan L. Herlocker, Joseph A. Konstan, Al Borchers et al. | Aug 1999 | 2,006 |
| 20 | Service-Oriented Computing: State of the Art and Research Challenges M. Papazoglou, Paolo Traverso, Schahram Dustdar et al. · Computer | Nov 2007 | 1,956 |
| 21 | The Gaia Methodology for Agent-Oriented Analysis and Design Michael Wooldridge, Nicholas R. Jennings, David Kinny · Autonomous Agents and Multi-Agent Systems | Sep 2000 | 1,893 |
| 22 | Implementing remote procedure calls Andrew D. Birrell, Bruce Jay Nelson · ACM Transactions on Computer Systems | Feb 1984 | 1,835 |
| 23 | Tropos: An Agent-Oriented Software Development Methodology Paolo Bresciani, Anna Perini, Paolo Giorgini et al. · Autonomous Agents and Multi-Agent Systems | 5 Mar 2004 | 1,750 |
| 24 | The elephant in the room: Predictive performance of PLS models Galit Shmueli, Soumya Ray, Juan Manuel Velasquez Estrada et al. · Journal of Business Research | 30 Apr 2016 | 1,724 |
| 25 | Computer-supported cooperative work: history and focus Jonathan T. Grudin · Computer | May 1994 | 1,635 |
| 26 | An overview of workflow management: From process modeling to workflow automation infrastructure Diimitrios Georgakopoulos, Mark F. Hornick, Amit Sheth · Distributed and Parallel Databases | Apr 1995 | 1,534 |
| 27 | Discrete-Event System Simulation Carolyn B. Morgan · Technometrics | May 1984 | 1,415 |
| 28 | The Anatomy of a Design Theory David John Jones, Shirley Diane Gregor · Journal of the Association for Information Systems | May 2007 | 1,364 |
| 29 | YAWL: yet another workflow language Wil M. P. van der Aalst, Arthur H. M. ter Hofstede · Information Systems | 23 Mar 2004 | 1,362 |
| 30 | Business Process Management: A Survey Wil M. P. van der Aalst, Arthur H. M. ter Hofstede, Mathias Weske · Lecture notes in computer science | 2003 | 1,342 |
| 31 | The Power of Events: An Introduction to Complex Event Processing in Distributed Enterprise Systems David C. Luckham · Lecture notes in computer science | 2008 | 1,295 |
| 32 | The pragmatics of model-driven development Bran Selić · IEEE Software | Sep 2003 | 1,231 |
| 33 | Understanding customer relationship management (CRM) Injazz J. Chen, Karen Popovich · Business Process Management Journal | 22 Sep 2003 | 1,230 |
| 34 | Process Mining Manifesto Wil M. P. van der Aalst et al. · Lecture notes in business information processing | 2012 | 1,215 |
| 35 | Negotiation decision functions for autonomous agents Peyman Faratin, Carles Sierra, Nick R. Jennings · Robotics and Autonomous Systems | Sep 1998 | 1,204 |
| 36 | Petri Nets James L. Peterson · ACM Computing Surveys | Sep 1977 | 1,165 |
| 37 | Using grounded theory as a method for rigorously reviewing literature Joost F. Wolfswinkel, Elfi Furtmueller, Celeste P.M. Wilderom · European Journal of Information Systems | 29 Nov 2011 | 1,162 |
| 38 | Coloured Petri Nets and CPN Tools for modelling and validation of concurrent systems Kurt Jensen, Lars Michael Kristensen, Lisa Wells · International Journal on Software Tools for Technology Transfer | 13 Mar 2007 | 1,145 |
| 39 | A Petri net based deadlock prevention policy for flexible manufacturing systems J. Ezpeleta, José Manuel Colom, José Mario Martínez · IEEE Transactions on Robotics and Automation | Apr 1995 | 1,144 |
| 40 | Web services orchestration and choreography Chris Peltz · Computer | Oct 2003 | 1,143 |
| 41 | Conformance checking of processes based on monitoring real behavior Anne Rozinat, Wil M. P. van der Aalst · Information Systems | 6 Jul 2007 | 1,120 |
| 42 | A Survey of Automated Web Service Composition Methods Jinghai Rao, Xiaomeng Su · Lecture notes in computer science | 2005 | 1,108 |
| 43 | Virtual teams: Technology and the workplace of the future Anthony M. Townsend, Samuel M. Demarie, Anthony R. Hendrickson · Academy of Management Perspectives | Aug 1998 | 1,089 |
| 44 | Distributed Simulation: A Case Study in Design and Verification of Distributed Programs K. Mani Chandy, Jayadev Misra · IEEE Transactions on Software Engineering | Sep 1979 | 1,078 |
| 45 | A design theory for systems that support emergent knowledge processes M. Lynne Markus, Ann Majchrzak, Les Gasser | Sep 2002 | 1,077 |
| 46 | IT Alignment: What Have We Learned? Yolande E. Chan, Blaize Horner Reich · Journal of Information Technology | 18 Sep 2007 | 1,068 |
| 47 | Workflow mining: A survey of issues and approaches Wil M. P. van der Aalst, Boudewijn F. van Dongen, Joachim Herbst et al. · Data & Knowledge Engineering | 12 May 2003 | 1,058 |
| 48 | Discrete Event System Simulation J. Vijayarangam, Santosh Kumar Kamalakannan, R. Sebasthi Priya · BENTHAM SCIENCE PUBLISHERS eBooks | 4 Mar 2024 | 1,040 |
| 49 | Business Process Change: A Study of Methodologies, Techniques, and Tools* William J. Kettinger, James T. C. Teng, Subashish Guha · MIS Quarterly | Mar 1997 | 993 |
| 50 | Why CSCW applications fail: problems in the design and evaluationof organizational interfaces Jonathan T. Grudin | 1988 | 968 |
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