Network Dynamics in the French-Speaking and English-Speaking IS Research Communities
Keywords:
Bibliometrics, co-citation analysis, bibliographic coupling, mapping of the IS field.Abstract
Using bibliographic data, we illuminate and compare the main references and schools
of thought of the French-speaking and the English-speaking Information Systems (IS) communities,
as well as the main research themes that emerged from 1996 till 2016. With the help of
bibliometric techniques, we investigate the intellectual organization of the two communities
based on a dynamic mapping of their research networks over the two periods 1996–2006
and 2007–2016. For these periods, we investigate all articles published in a journal that is
representative of each community (Systèmes d’Information & Management and Management
Information Systems Quarterly), as well as the references cited by these articles. We highlight
similarities and differences between the research networks of both communities.
