business intelligence and analytics: from big data to big impact

Chen et al./Introduction: Business Intelligence ResearchTable 5. Major IS Journals with BI&A PublicationsAcademic PublicationPublicationsDecision Support Systems 41Communications of the AIS 19Journal of Management Information Systems 12Management Science 10Information Systems Research 9Journal of the Association for Information Systems 5INFORMS Journal on Computing 4Management Information Systems Quarterly 2Table 6. Top Academic Authors in BI&ARank Name Affiliation Discipline Region Total PageRank1 Hsinchun Chen University of Arizona, U.S. IS North America 19 7.4712 Shenghong Li Zhejiang University, China Math Asia 16 4.2763 Yong Shi University of Nebraska, U.S. CS North America 15 3.7084 Kin Keung Lai City University of Hong Kong, China IS Asia 14 4.7805 Barbara H. Wixom University of Virginia, U.S. IS North America 8 2.7275 Hugh J. Watson University of Georgia, U.S. IS North America 8 2.4855 Elizabeth Chang Curtin University, Australia IS Australia 8 2.3815 Sheila Wright De Montfort University, U.K. Marketing Europe 8 2.8595 Matteo Golfarelli University of Bologna, Italy CS Europe 8 1.7855 Farookh Hussain University of Technology Sydney, Australia CS Australia 8 1.26411 Michael Chau Hong Kong University, China IS Asia 7 1.78811 Josef Schiefer Vienna University of Technology, Austria CS Europe 7 2.73111 Craig S. Fleisher College of Costal Georgia, U.S. Management North America 7 1.04214 Lingling Zhang Towson University, U.S. Communication North America 6 2.32814 Olivera Marjanovic University of Sydney, Australia IS Australia 6 2.46416 Xiaofeng Zhang Changsha University of Science andTechnology, ChinaIS Asia 5 2.39316 Stefano Rizzi University of Bologna, Italy CS Europe 5 1.68318 Jay F. Nunamaker University of Arizona, U.S. IS North America 4 2.79218 Wingyan Chung Santa Clara University, U.S. IS North America 4 1.76118 Zahir Urabu Brunel University, U.K. Management Europe 4 2.241analysis reveals broad and even contribution of authors fromNorth America, Asia, Europe, and Australia, reflecting thediversity and international interest in the field of BI&A.The last set of analyses investigated the content of BI&Apublications from 2000–2011. Mallet (McCallum 2002), aJava-based open-source NLP text analytics tool, was used toextract the top bigrams (two-word phrases) for each year. Afew bi-grams were combined to form more meaningful BIrelatedtrigrams such as “customer relation management” and“enterprise resource planning.” These keywords were thenranked based on their frequency, and the top 30 keywordsdisplayed using the tagcloud visualization. More importantkeywords are highlighted with larger fonts as shown inFigure 3. For example, competitive advantage, big data, datawarehousing, and decision support emerged as the top fourtopics in the BI&A literature. Other BI&A related topics suchas customer relation management, data mining, competitiveMIS Quarterly Vol. 36 No. 4/December 2012 17