Electronic Commerce Research and Applications

Top Research Topics at Electronic Commerce Research and Applications?

The journal is mainly concerned with subjects like Marketing, Advertising, E-commerce, The Internet and Knowledge management. While work presented in Electronic Commerce Research and Applications provided substantial information on Marketing, it also covered topics in Context (language use), Empirical research and Affect (psychology). Most of the Advertising studies addressed also intersect with Social media.

E-commerce studies covered in it falls within the purview of World Wide Web.

• Marketing (24.05%)
• Advertising (16.65%)
• E-commerce (12.64%)

What are the most cited papers published in the journal?

• Factors influencing the adoption of internet banking: An integration of TAM and TPB with perceived risk and perceived benefit (1035 citations)
• The Web Service Modeling Framework WSMF (800 citations)
• The effect of negative online consumer reviews on product attitude: An information processing view (687 citations)

Research areas of the most cited articles at Electronic Commerce Research and Applications:

The published articles are mainly concerned with subjects like Marketing, Advertising, E-commerce, The Internet and Context (language use). The journal publications hold forums on Marketing that merge themes from other disciplines such as Structural equation modeling and Empirical research. The published papers facilitate discussions on Advertising that incorporate concepts from other fields like Quality (business), Social media, Electronic word of mouth, Perspective (graphical) and Continuance.

What topics the last edition of the journal is best known for?

• Law
• The Internet
• Artificial intelligence

The previous edition focused in particular on these issues:

The journal aims to foster the development of research in Industrial organization, Marketing, Service (business), Knowledge management and Context (language use). The Industrial organization research discussed in the journal can contribute to the expansion of the discourse in closely related subjects like

• Competition (economics) that connect with fields like Procurement, Reseller and Social Welfare,
• Supply chain that intertwine with fields like Blockchain and E-commerce.. In the journal, Affect (psychology), Value (ethics), Attractiveness, Social commerce and Process (engineering) are investigated in conjunction with one another to address concerns in Marketing research.

The research on Service (business) featured in Electronic Commerce Research and Applications combines topics in other fields like Outcome (game theory), Communication channel and Product (business). Knowledge management research featured in it incorporates concerns from various other topics such as Qualitative comparative analysis, Social media, Perspective (graphical) and Quality (business). The journal focuses on Context (language use) but sometimes tackles the closely related topic of Structural equation modeling which is concerned with Test (assessment) and Empirical research.

The most cited articles from the last journal are:

• Neural text similarity of user reviews for improving collaborative filtering recommender systems (4 citations)
• A novel POI recommendation method based on trust relationship and spatial–temporal factors (3 citations)
• Is the devil in the details? Construal-level effects on perceived usefulness of online reviews for experience services (3 citations)

Papers citation over time

A key indicator for each journal is its effectiveness in reaching other researchers with the papers published at that venue.

The chart below presents the interquartile range (first quartile 25%, median 50% and third quartile 75%) of the number of citations of articles over time.

Top authors and change over time

The top authors publishing in Electronic Commerce Research and Applications (based on the number of publications) are:

• Robert J. Kauffman (35 papers) published 1 paper at the last edition, 4 less than at the previous edition,
• Jie Zhang (10 papers) published 1 paper at the last edition the same number as at the previous edition,
• Xiaotong Li (8 papers) absent at the last edition,
• Maurizio Naldi (7 papers) absent at the last edition,
• Norman Sadeh (6 papers) absent at the last edition.

The overall trend for top authors publishing in this journal is outlined below. The chart shows the number of publications at each edition of the journal for top authors.

Top affiliations and change over time

Only papers with recognized affiliations are considered

The top affiliations publishing in Electronic Commerce Research and Applications (based on the number of publications) are:

• City University of Hong Kong (22 papers) published 1 paper at the last edition, 1 less than at the previous edition,
• National Sun Yat-sen University (19 papers) published 1 paper at the last edition,
• Nanyang Technological University (18 papers) published 2 papers at the last edition the same number as at the previous edition,
• Arizona State University (17 papers) absent at the last edition,
• Singapore Management University (17 papers) published 1 paper at the last edition, 3 less than at the previous edition.

The overall trend for top affiliations publishing in this journal is outlined below. The chart shows the number of publications at each edition of the journal for top affiliations.

Publication chance based on affiliation

The publication chance index shows the ratio of articles published by the best research institutions in the journal edition to all articles published within that journal. The best research institutions were selected based on the largest number of articles published during all editions of the journal.

The chart below presents the percentage ratio of articles from top institutions (based on their ranking of total papers).Top affiliations were grouped by their rank into the following tiers: top 1-10, top 11-20, top 21-50, and top 51+. Only articles with a recognized affiliation are considered.

During the most recent 2021 edition, 5.56% of publications had an unrecognized affiliation. Out of the publications with recognized affiliations, 11.76% were posted by at least one author from the top 10 institutions publishing in the journal. Another 5.88% included authors affiliated with research institutions from the top 11-20 affiliations. Institutions from the 21-50 range included 22.06% of all publications and 60.29% were from other institutions.

Returning Authors Index

A very common phenomenon observed among researchers publishing scientific articles is the intentional selection of journals they have already attended in the past. In particular, it is worth analyzing the case when the authors participate in the same journal from year to year.

The Returning Authors Index presented below illustrates the ratio of authors who participated in both a given as well as the previous edition of the journal in relation to all participants in a given year.

Returning Institution Index

The graph below shows the Returning Institution Index, illustrating the ratio of institutions that participated in both a given and the previous edition of the conference in relation to all affiliations present in a given year.

The experience to innovation index

Our experience to innovation index was created to show a cross-section of the experience level of authors publishing in a journal. The index includes the authors publishing at the last edition of a journal, grouped by total number of publications throughout their academic career (P) and the total number of citations of these publications ever received (C).

The group intervals were selected empirically to best show the diversity of the authors' experiences, their labels were selected as a convenience, not as judgment. The authors were divided into the following groups:

• Novice - P < 5 or C < 25 (the number of publications less than 5 or the number of citations less than 25),
• Competent - P < 10 or C < 100 (the number of publications less than 10 or the number of citations less than 100),
• Experienced - P < 25 or C < 625 (the number of publications less than 25 or the number of citations less than 625),
• Master - P < 50 or C < 2500 (the number of publications less than 50 or the number of citations less than 2500),
• Star - P ≥ 50 and C ≥ 2500 (both the number of publications greater than 50 and the number of citations greater than 2500).

The chart below illustrates experience levels of first authors in cases of publications with multiple authors.

Career Opportunities and Further Study

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