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Information Systems Theories and Implementation

Information Systems Theories and Implementation is a research topic within Sociology and Political Science. Science Explorer counts 15k research works in it since 1950. 10.2% of them reached the world's top 10% most cited for their field and year.

This cluster of papers explores the concept of sociomateriality in information systems research, emphasizing the intertwined relationship between social and material elements in shaping technology, organizations, and practices. It encompasses topics such as design science, actor-network theory, organizational change, affordances, boundary objects, and critical realism.

  • Sociomateriality
  • Design Science
  • Information Systems
  • Actor-Network Theory
  • Organizational Change
  • Technology
  • Practice Lens
  • Affordances
  • Boundary Objects
  • Critical Realism
Research works
15k
fractional, since 1950
In the world top 10%
1.5k
per year above
Top-10% rate
10.2%
share of its works in the world top 10%
Growth, 2018-21 → 2022-25
-6%
the tick is no change
Largest producer
United States
30% of the 10 largest, 2022-now
Information Systems Theories and Implementation

Which countries lead Information Systems Theories and Implementation research?

By volume, the United States and Germany publish the most (473 and 222 works in 2022-now).

By volume, 2022-now

  1. 1 United States 473 works
  2. 2 Germany 222 works
  3. 3 United Kingdom 205 works
  4. 4 Sweden 103 works
  5. 5 Netherlands 98 works
  6. 6 Australia 97 works
  7. 7 Denmark 96 works
  8. 8 Brazil 93 works
  9. 9 France 92 works
  10. 10 Canada 84 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: 30.3%Germany: 14.2%United Kingdom: 13.1%Sweden: 6.6%6 others listed: 35.8%30%largest
United States473 · 30.3%Germany222 · 14.2%United Kingdom205 · 13.1%Sweden103 · 6.6%6 others listed560 · 35.8%

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

Which institutions lead Information Systems Theories and Implementation research?

By volume in 2022-now, Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique publishes the most Information Systems Theories and Implementation research, followed by Aalborg University and University of Virginia.

By volume, 2022-now

  1. 1 Centre National de la Recherche ScientifiqueFrance 22 works
  2. 2 Aalborg UniversityDenmark 22 works
  3. 3 University of VirginiaUnited States 17 works
  4. 4 Delft University of TechnologyNetherlands 16 works
  5. 5 Copenhagen Business SchoolDenmark 15 works
  6. 6 University of OsloNorway 14 works
  7. 7 Aarhus UniversityDenmark 13 works
  8. 8 Norwegian University of Science and TechnologyNorway 12 works
  9. 9 Linköping UniversitySweden 12 works
  10. 10 Politecnico di MilanoItaly 11 works

Who are the leading researchers in Information Systems Theories and Implementation?

The most-cited researchers publishing on Information Systems Theories and Implementation include Christian M. Ringle, Aziz Sheikh and F. Stuart Chapin.

  1. 1 Christian M. Ringle Germany 215k citations
  2. 2 Aziz Sheikh United Kingdom 214k citations
  3. 3 F. Stuart Chapin United States 185k citations
  4. 4 Herbert A. Simon United States 179k citations
  5. 5 Kathleen M. Eisenhardt United States 169k citations
  6. 6 Marc Humbert France 161k citations
  7. 7 Fred D. Davis United States 153k citations
  8. 8 Étienne Wenger United States 146k 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 Information Systems Theories and Implementation?

The most cited paper in Information Systems Theories and Implementation is "Building Theories from Case Study Research" (Kathleen M. Eisenhardt, 1989), with 23,256 citations. Next come "Theory Building From Cases: Opportunities And Challenges" (16,535) and "Design Science in Information Systems Research1" (10,470).

Most cited papers
#PaperReleasedCitations
1 Building Theories from Case Study Research Kathleen M. Eisenhardt · Academy of Management Review Open access Oct 1989 23,256
2 Theory Building From Cases: Opportunities And Challenges Kathleen M. Eisenhardt, Melissa E. Graebner · Academy of Management Journal Feb 2007 16,535
3 Design Science in Information Systems Research1 Alan R. Hevner, Salvatore T. March, Jinsoo Park et al. · MIS Quarterly Mar 2004 10,470
4 Organizational Learning and Communities-of-Practice: Toward a Unified View of Working, Learning, and Innovation John Seely Brown, Paul Duguid · Organization Science Feb 1991 8,411
5 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
All 99 most cited papers, with filters and sorting

Where is Information Systems Theories and Implementation research done?

The largest centres of Information Systems Theories and Implementation research in 2022-now are London (United Kingdom), Copenhagen (Denmark), Oslo (Norway) and Paris (France). Among places with at least 20 works in it, it is an unusually large share of all research in Aalborg.

Largest cities, 2022-now

  1. 1 LondonUnited Kingdom 53 works
  2. 2 CopenhagenDenmark 38 works
  3. 3 OsloNorway 30 works
  4. 4 ParisFrance 29 works
  5. 5 Rio de JaneiroBrazil 24 works
  6. 6 SydneyAustralia 24 works
  7. 7 BerlinGermany 23 works
  8. 8 StockholmSweden 23 works
  9. 9 AalborgDenmark 23 works
  10. 10 MelbourneAustralia 22 works

Where it is the local speciality

  1. AalborgDK · 22.6 works17×
← less than its size predicts1×more →

Location quotient: how much more of its research is in Information Systems Theories and Implementation than the world average.

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Where is the best place to study Information Systems Theories and Implementation?

Among universities, judged by research, Delft University of Technology, Cornell University and The University of Sydney score highest, combining excellence, specialisation, size, growth and international reach. Research strength is one signal when choosing where to study; it does not measure teaching.

0%10%20%mean 14.41%fractional works in this field (log) →share of work in the world top 10% →Cornell UniversityDelft University of …The University of Sy…Copenhagen Business …
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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.

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
1Delft University of TechnologyNetherlands 70.518.0%11.8×16 +25.5%
2Cornell UniversityUnited States 60.319.6%3.4×9 +137.5%
3The University of SydneyAustralia 51.114.3%4.2×10 +22.8%
4Copenhagen Business SchoolDenmark 50.113.8%45.0×15 -29.7%
5Aalborg UniversityDenmark 48.33.7%19.0×22 -18.1%
6Georgia State UniversityUnited States 48.312.4%15.3×9 +89.9%
7University College LondonUnited Kingdom 46.717.4%2.6×8 +49.9%
8Linköping UniversitySweden 46.513.1%20.8×12 +7.2%
9University of OsloNorway 46.29.7%10.6×14 -29.9%
10University of TorontoCanada 46.222.1%2.3×9 +43.5%

Universities only. The score blends 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 Information Systems Theories and Implementation, country by country

Is Information Systems Theories and Implementation research growing?

Output in 2022-2025 was 6% lower than in 2018-2021, peaking in 2011.

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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 Information Systems Theories and Implementation as a percentage of every work published that year, 0.0079% in 2024.

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Fractional works of Information Systems Theories and Implementation 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%Information Systems Theories and Implementation10.3% 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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