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Technology Adoption and User Behaviour

Technology Adoption and User Behaviour is a research topic within Information Systems and Management. Science Explorer counts 63k research works in it since 1950. 10.0% of them reached the world's top 10% most cited for their field and year.

This cluster of papers explores the acceptance and adoption of information technology, focusing on the Technology Acceptance Model, user satisfaction, consumer trust in e-commerce, and the use of partial least squares structural equation modeling. It delves into topics such as online shopping behavior, mobile banking adoption, and the factors influencing user acceptance of new technologies.

  • Technology Acceptance Model
  • Information Systems
  • Online Shopping
  • Partial Least Squares
  • Consumer Trust
  • E-commerce
  • User Satisfaction
  • Mobile Banking
  • Structural Equation Modeling
  • Perceived Ease of Use
Research works
63k
fractional, since 1950
In the world top 10%
6.2k
per year above
Top-10% rate
10.0%
share of its works in the world top 10%
Growth, 2018-21 → 2022-25
+59%
the tick is no change
Largest producer
Indonesia
31% of the 10 largest, 2022-now
Technology Adoption and User Behaviour

Which countries lead Technology Adoption and User Behaviour research?

By volume, Indonesia and India publish the most (4.6k and 2.6k works in 2022-now).

By volume, 2022-now

  1. 1 Indonesia 4.6k works
  2. 2 India 2.6k works
  3. 3 China 2.4k works
  4. 4 United States 1.4k works
  5. 5 Malaysia 1.4k works
  6. 6 Türkiye 502 works
  7. 7 South Korea 481 works
  8. 8 Vietnam 463 works
  9. 9 Pakistan 440 works
  10. 10 United Kingdom 426 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.

Indonesia: 31.2%India: 17.7%China: 16.5%United States: 9.8%6 others listed: 24.9%31%largest
Indonesia4,592 · 31.2%India2,603 · 17.7%China2,426 · 16.5%United States1,437 · 9.8%6 others listed3,663 · 24.9%

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

Which institutions lead Technology Adoption and User Behaviour research?

By volume in 2022-now, Binus University publishes the most Technology Adoption and User Behaviour research, followed by Universiti Teknologi MARA and Telkom University.

By volume, 2022-now

  1. 1 Binus UniversityIndonesia 517 works
  2. 2 Universiti Teknologi MARAMalaysia 184 works
  3. 3 Telkom UniversityIndonesia 178 works
  4. 4 University of IndonesiaIndonesia 131 works
  5. 5 Universiti Sains MalaysiaMalaysia 105 works
  6. 6 Government of Western AustraliaAustralia 101 works
  7. 7 University of BrawijayaIndonesia 100 works
  8. 8 Bandung Institute of TechnologyIndonesia 90 works
  9. 9 State University of JakartaIndonesia 85 works
  10. 10 Symbiosis International UniversityIndia 83 works

Who are the leading researchers in Technology Adoption and User Behaviour?

The most-cited researchers publishing on Technology Adoption and User Behaviour include Kai You Wang, Marko Sarstedt and Christian M. Ringle.

  1. 1 Kai You Wang China 224k citations
  2. 2 Marko Sarstedt Germany 221k citations
  3. 3 Christian M. Ringle Germany 215k citations
  4. 4 Claes Fornell United States 198k 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 Technology Adoption and User Behaviour?

The most cited paper in Technology Adoption and User Behaviour is "Perceived Usefulness, Perceived Ease of Use, and User Acceptance of Information Technology" (Fred D. Davis, 1989), with 67,727 citations. Next come "User Acceptance of Information Technology: Toward A Unified View1" (44,647) and "A new criterion for assessing discriminant validity in variance-based structural equation modeling" (37,002).

Most cited papers
#PaperReleasedCitations
1 Perceived Usefulness, Perceived Ease of Use, and User Acceptance of Information Technology Fred D. Davis · MIS Quarterly Sep 1989 67,727
2 User Acceptance of Information Technology: Toward A Unified View1 Viswanath Venkatesh, Michael G. Morris, Gordon B. Davis et al. · MIS Quarterly Sep 2003 44,647
3 A new criterion for assessing discriminant validity in variance-based structural equation modeling Jörg Henseler, Christian M. Ringle, Marko Sarstedt · Journal of the Academy of Marketing Science Open access 21 Aug 2014 37,002
4 When to use and how to report the results of PLS-SEM Joseph F. Hair, Jeffrey J. Risher, Marko Sarstedt et al. · European Business Review 19 Dec 2018 26,512
5 User Acceptance of Computer Technology: A Comparison of Two Theoretical Models Fred D. Davis, Richard P. Bagozzi, Paul R. Warshaw · Management Science Aug 1989 25,784
All 99 most cited papers, with filters and sorting

Where is Technology Adoption and User Behaviour research done?

The largest centres of Technology Adoption and User Behaviour research in 2022-now are Jakarta (Indonesia), Bandung (Indonesia), Surabaya (Indonesia) and Beijing (China). Among places with at least 20 works in it, it is an unusually large share of all research in Kelaniya and Malacca.

Largest cities, 2022-now

  1. 1 JakartaIndonesia 1.1k works
  2. 2 BandungIndonesia 511 works
  3. 3 SurabayaIndonesia 358 works
  4. 4 BeijingChina 312 works
  5. 5 Kuala LumpurMalaysia 285 works
  6. 6 SeoulSouth Korea 266 works
  7. 7 YogyakartaIndonesia 242 works
  8. 8 Shah AlamMalaysia 231 works
  9. 9 MalangIndonesia 222 works
  10. 10 Ho Chi Minh CityVietnam 210 works

Where it is the local speciality

  1. KelaniyaLK · 27.8 works17×
  2. MalaccaMY · 92.2 works15×
← less than its size predicts1×more →

Location quotient: how much more of its research is in Technology Adoption and User Behaviour than the world average.

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Where is the best place to study Technology Adoption and User Behaviour?

Among universities, judged by research, Jadara University, Al-Ahliyya Amman University and University of Business and Technology 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%20%40%60%mean 32.55%fractional works in this field (log) →share of work in the world top 10% →Jadara UniversityAl-Ahliyya Amman Uni…King Faisal UniversityUniversity of Busine…
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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 70.449.0%26.0×21 +320.6%
2Al-Ahliyya Amman UniversityJordan 61.944.5%11.8×13 +28.1%
3University of Business and TechnologySaudi Arabia 59.323.5%23.6×44 +256.2%
4King Faisal UniversitySaudi Arabia 59.029.7%5.8×28 +141.5%
5Middle East UniversityJordan 58.834.1%22.8×18 +447.5%
6Mutah UniversityJordan 56.144.2%9.6×12 +361.2%
7Indian Institute of Management RanchiIndia 55.940.0%31.1×15 +53.5%
8UCSI UniversityMalaysia 55.224.4%16.0×29 +64.4%
9Applied Science Private UniversityJordan 54.021.6%21.2×32 +646.3%
10Universiti Sains MalaysiaMalaysia 53.314.5%8.2×106 +87.6%

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 Technology Adoption and User Behaviour, country by country

Is Technology Adoption and User Behaviour research growing?

Output in 2022-2025 was 59% higher than in 2018-2021, peaking in 2025. The fastest-growing topics are Technology Adoption and User Behaviour.

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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 Technology Adoption and User Behaviour as a percentage of every work published that year, 0.11% in 2024.

still counting0.050%0.10%0.15%Technology Adoption and User Behaviour0.11% in 202519801990200020102020

Fractional works of Technology Adoption and User Behaviour 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.

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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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