Bibliometric analysis of management information systems discipline

The aim of this thesis is to have an idea on the academic development of the discipline of management information systems in the world with bibliometric methods and to reveal the relational connections through documents. In this study, all the articles published by four academic journals in the field of Management Information Systems, two of which are from Europe and two from the United States, were in 2017-2018 are studied. Because of the multidisciplinary structure of the Management Information Systems study area, it was thought that it would be meaningful to make a map with social network analysis on which sub-subjects of universities / schools that make scientific publications are frequently concentrated in this field. The main objective at this point is to determine whether there are differences between two different academic study cultures (Europe and the United States). In this context, the most frequently cited articles, the most frequently cited journals, the most frequently studied sub-topics and the currentity of the articles used in the preparation of these papers were also analysed. In this sense, the findings of the thesis study provide important comparison criteria about the development of MIS in the world and the competition between continents. As a result of the study, factors such as the distribution of the cited journals and researchers, the diversity of the study subjects, the timeliness of the cited publications and the number of universities willing to make publications were taken into consideration and there are significant differences between the US and European studying traditions, it was found that the cited articles differ rather than concentrate on specific articles, and that the citations are recent. In addition, it is understood that the MIS area is in the process of forming an identity and the four journals included in the research subject are trying to create a MIS culture with a similar sensitivity. The most important indicator of their aim is to prove that they are a separate discipline from the journals in these fields, although they include issues especially related to engineering and computer science.