What are the most common topics in recent information systems research?

In the last 30 days, the most frequent OpenAlex keywords in papers from the tracked information systems journals were “generative AI” (9), “digital transformation” (6), “human-AI collaboration” (6), “human-AI interaction” (6) and “chatbots” (5).

Which universities and institutions publish the most information systems research?

In the last 30 days, the institutions with the most papers in the tracked information systems journals were NEOMA Business School (3), National Chung Hsing University (3), Yonsei University (3), Shanghai University (2) and Tongji University (2).

Which countries publish the most information systems research?

Counting papers with at least one author at an institution in the country, the leaders over the last 30 days were China (34), United States (21), Germany (8), South Korea (7) and United Kingdom (6).

Which equations and models do recent information systems research papers use most?

Counting papers that mention them by name in the title, abstract, keywords or full text, the most frequent in the tracked information systems journals over the last 30 days were Structural equation modeling (SEM) (13), Mediation model (indirect effect) (6), Logistic regression (logit) (5), Difference-in-differences (4) and Support vector machine (SVM) (3).

What data do recent information systems research papers use?

Counting papers that mention a dataset by name, the kinds of data used most over the last 30 days were Social media data (14), Optimization benchmark instances (9), Online reviews, e-commerce and recommender data (4), Corporate filings and text (2) and Search, news and web data (2); the most-mentioned datasets were OR-Library (9), Facebook (7), Twitter / X (3), YouTube / TikTok (3) and Amazon reviews (2).

Which information systems research topics are rising?

Compared with the ranking on 2026-10-22, the keywords that climbed the most were “generative AI” (new, now #1), “digital transformation” (new, now #2), “human-AI collaboration” (new, now #2), “human-AI interaction” (new, now #2) and “chatbots” (new, now #5).

How current is this data?

It is rebuilt from OpenAlex 4 times a day (00:00, 06:00, 12:00, 18:00, UTC+09:00); the last update was 2026-10-28 12:01 UTC+09:00. OpenAlex usually indexes new papers within a few days of publication.

Information Systems research rankings

Papers in the 18 tracked information systems journals, window 2026-09-29 – 2026-10-28 (30 days). Keywords, institutions, web domains and countries are ranked by paper count. Also as Markdown.

Latest monthly report: September 2026 · all 36 months

111Papers (30 days)

13Papers (last 7 days)

18Journals

190Institutions

36Countries

190Web domains

Key findings#

In the last 30 days (2026-09-29 to 2026-10-28), 111 papers were published in the 18 tracked information systems journals (as indexed by OpenAlex).
The most frequent keywords were “generative AI” (9), “digital transformation” (6) and “human-AI collaboration” (6).
The institutions with the most papers were NEOMA Business School (3), National Chung Hsing University (3) and Yonsei University (3).
China was involved in 31% of the papers (34), followed by United States (21) and Germany (8).
Among institution web domains, .edu.cn appeared on 31% of the papers.
The most-mentioned equations and models were Structural equation modeling (SEM) (13), Mediation model (indirect effect) (6) and Logistic regression (logit) (5).
The most-mentioned kinds of data were Social media data (14), Optimization benchmark instances (9) and Online reviews, e-commerce and recommender data (4); the most-mentioned datasets were OR-Library (9), Facebook (7) and Twitter / X (3).
Rising since 2026-10-22: “generative AI” (new, now #1), “digital transformation” (new, now #2) and “human-AI collaboration” (new, now #2).

Papers per day#

2026-09-292026-10-28

Show the numbers

Papers per publication date
Date	Papers
2026-09-29	2
2026-09-30	1
2026-10-01	32
2026-10-02	0
2026-10-03	2
2026-10-04	2
2026-10-05	1
2026-10-06	3
2026-10-07	5
2026-10-08	8
2026-10-09	4
2026-10-10	4
2026-10-11	2
2026-10-12	3
2026-10-13	2
2026-10-14	4
2026-10-15	4
2026-10-16	5
2026-10-17	4
2026-10-18	2
2026-10-19	3
2026-10-20	3
2026-10-21	2
2026-10-22	6
2026-10-23	2
2026-10-24	4
2026-10-25	0
2026-10-26	1
2026-10-27	0
2026-10-28	0

Growing lately# Trends →

Papers in Jul 2026–Sep 2026 beyond what the keyword's share in Oct 2023–Jun 2026 predicts
Keyword	Papers Jul 2026–Sep 2026	vs. earlier share
large language models	31	+21
generative AI	23	+9
signaling theory	10	+6
online health communities	8	+6
Douyin	6	+5

Most-cited papers of the past three years# All →

Most-cited papers published since 2023-10-28 (citations counted by OpenAlex)
#	Citations	Per month	Title	Journal	Published	Authors
1	597	17.1	Generative artificial intelligence	Electronic Markets	2023-12-01	Leonardo Banh, Gero Strobel
2	558	25.7	Responsible artificial intelligence governance: A review and research framework	The Journal of Strategic Information Systems	2025-01-04	Emmanouil Papagiannidis, Patrick Mikalef, Kieran Conboy
3	507	16.6	AI-powered marketing: What, where, and how?	International Journal of Information Management	2024-04-09	V. Kumar, Abdul Rehman Ashraf, Waqar Nadeem
4	454	15.7	ChatGPT is bullshit	Ethics and Information Technology	2024-06-01	Michael Townsen Hicks, James Humphries, Joe Slater
5	303	9.3	The impending disruption of creative industries by generative AI: Opportunities, challenges, and research agenda	International Journal of Information Management	2024-02-08	Joseph Amankwah‐Amoah, Samar Abdalla, Emmanuel Mogaji et al.

Rising keywords#

Keywords that climbed the most since 2026-10-22
#	Keyword	Papers	vs 2026-10-22
1	generative AI	9	new
2	digital transformation	6	new
2	human-AI collaboration	6	new
2	human-AI interaction	6	new
5	chatbots	5	new
6	e-commerce	4	new
6	large language models	4	new
6	recommender systems	4	new
6	technology adoption	4	new
10	China	3	new

Top research keywords#

Top 20 · 2026-09-29 – 2026-10-28 (30 days)
#	Keyword	Papers	Last 7 days
1	generative AI	9	2
2	digital transformation	6	0
2	human-AI collaboration	6	1
2	human-AI interaction	6	0
5	chatbots	5	0
6	e-commerce	4	0
6	large language models	4	1
6	recommender systems	4	0
6	technology adoption	4	0
10	China	3	0
10	consumer behavior	3	0
10	consumer trust	3	0
13	AI disclosure	2	0
13	AI ethics	2	1
13	AI governance	2	0
13	Internet of Things	2	0
13	YouTube	2	0
13	accountability	2	0
13	affective computing	2	0
13	anthropomorphism of AI	2	0

Top universities and research institutions#

Top 20 · 2026-09-29 – 2026-10-28 (30 days)
#	Institution	Papers	Last 7 days
1	NEOMA Business School	3	0
1	National Chung Hsing University	3	0
1	Yonsei University	3	0
4	Shanghai University	2	0
4	Tongji University	2	0
4	University of Science and Technology of China	2	0
4	National Sun Yat-sen University	2	0
4	Copenhagen Business School	2	0
4	Shanghai University of Finance and Economics	2	0
4	University of Agder	2	0
4	University of Michigan	2	0
4	Xavier School of Management	2	0
4	University at Albany, State University of New York	2	0
4	University of Regensburg	2	0
4	Indian Institute of Technology Delhi	2	0
4	Zhejiang University	2	0
4	Xi'an Jiaotong University	2	0
4	Nanjing University	2	0
19	Rutgers, The State University of New Jersey	1	1
19	Florida State University	1	0

Top institution web domains#

Top 20 · 2026-09-29 – 2026-10-28 (30 days)
#	Web domain	Papers
1	nchu.edu.tw	3
1	neoma-bs.com	3
1	yonsei.ac.kr	3
4	albany.edu	2
4	cbs.dk	2
4	iitd.ac.in	2
4	nju.edu.cn	2
4	nsysu.edu.tw	2
4	shu.edu.cn	2
4	sufe.edu.cn	2
4	tongji.edu.cn	2
4	uia.no	2
4	umich.edu	2
4	uni-regensburg.de	2
4	ustc.edu.cn	2
4	xjtu.edu.cn	2
4	xlri.ac.in	2
4	zju.edu.cn	2
19	aau.dk	1
19	ammanu.edu.jo	1

Top countries#

Top 20 · 2026-09-29 – 2026-10-28 (30 days)
#	Country	Papers	Last 7 days
1	China (CN)	34	1
2	United States (US)	21	4
3	Germany (DE)	8	0
4	South Korea (KR)	7	0
5	United Kingdom (GB)	6	2
5	Taiwan (TW)	6	0
7	Australia (AU)	5	0
7	France (FR)	5	0
7	India (IN)	5	1
10	Canada (CA)	4	1
10	Denmark (DK)	4	0
10	Hong Kong (HK)	4	1
10	Italy (IT)	4	0
14	Norway (NO)	3	1
14	Turkey (TR)	3	1
16	United Arab Emirates (AE)	2	0
16	Greece (GR)	2	1
16	Iran (IR)	2	1
16	New Zealand (NZ)	2	0
16	Vietnam (VN)	2	0

Research fields#

Top 12 · 2026-09-29 – 2026-10-28 (30 days)
#	Field	Papers	Last 7 days
1	Business, Management and Accounting	29	3
1	Social Sciences	29	5
3	Computer Science	17	1
4	Decision Sciences	12	1
5	Psychology	11	0
6	Engineering	4	0
7	Economics, Econometrics and Finance	2	1
8	Agricultural and Biological Sciences	1	0
8	Arts and Humanities	1	1
8	Environmental Science	1	0
8	Health Professions	1	0
8	Physics and Astronomy	1	0

Papers per journal#

Top 18 · 2026-09-29 – 2026-10-28 (30 days)
#	Journal	Papers	Last 7 days
1	Information & Management	12	0
2	Electronic Commerce Research	11	0
3	Decision Support Systems	10	0
3	Telematics and Informatics	10	0
5	Information Systems Frontiers	9	3
5	Telematics and Informatics Reports	9	1
7	International Journal of Information Management	8	0
7	International Journal of Information Management Data Insights	8	2
9	Ethics and Information Technology	6	4
10	Electronic Commerce Research and Applications	5	0
11	Business & Information Systems Engineering	4	0
11	Electronic Markets	4	0
11	Information Systems and e-Business Management	4	0
14	Information Technology and Management	3	1
15	Digital Business	2	1
15	Government Information Quarterly	2	0
15	Information and Organization	2	0
15	The Journal of Strategic Information Systems	2	1

Most-used equations and models#

Top 10 · 2026-09-29 – 2026-10-28 (30 days)
#	Equation or model	Formula	Papers
1	Structural equation modeling (SEM)	$\eta = B\eta + \Gamma\xi + \zeta,\quad y = \Lambda_y\,\eta + \varepsilon$	13
2	Mediation model (indirect effect)	$M = \alpha_0 + a X + e_1,\quad Y = \beta_0 + c' X + b M + e_2,\quad \text{indirect effect} = a\,b$	6
3	Logistic regression (logit)	$\Pr(y = 1 \mid x) = \frac{1}{1 + e^{-x^\top\beta}}$	5
4	Difference-in-differences	$Y_{it} = \alpha_i + \lambda_t + \delta\,(\mathit{Treat}_i \times \mathit{Post}_t) + \varepsilon_{it}$	4
5	Support vector machine (SVM)	$\min_{w, b, \xi}\ \tfrac{1}{2}\lVert w \rVert^2 + C \sum_i \xi_i\ \ \text{s.t.}\ \ y_i (w^\top x_i + b) \ge 1 - \xi_i,\ \xi_i \ge 0$	3
6	Analytic hierarchy process (AHP)	$A\, w = \lambda_{\max}\, w,\quad CR = \frac{(\lambda_{\max} - n)/(n - 1)}{RI}$	2
6	Contrastive loss (InfoNCE)	$\mathcal{L} = -\log \frac{\exp(\mathrm{sim}(z_i, z_j)/\tau)}{\sum_{k \ne i} \exp(\mathrm{sim}(z_i, z_k)/\tau)}$	2
6	Convolutional neural network (CNN)	$(I * K)(i, j) = \sum_{m}\sum_{n} I(i + m,\, j + n)\, K(m, n)$	2
6	Denoising diffusion model	$\mathcal{L} = E_{t, x_0, \epsilon}\Big[\left\lVert \epsilon - \epsilon_\theta\big(\sqrt{\bar\alpha_t}\, x_0 + \sqrt{1 - \bar\alpha_t}\, \epsilon,\ t\big) \right\rVert^2\Big]$	2
6	Gradient boosting (XGBoost)	$\mathcal{L} = \sum_i l(y_i, \hat y_i) + \sum_k \Omega(f_k),\quad \Omega(f) = \gamma T + \tfrac{1}{2}\lambda \lVert w \rVert^2$	2

Most-used data#

Top 10 · 2026-09-29 – 2026-10-28 (30 days)
#	Data category	Most-mentioned datasets	Papers
1	Social media data	Facebook (7), Twitter / X (3), YouTube / TikTok (3), Reddit (1) …	14
2	Optimization benchmark instances	OR-Library (9)	9
3	Online reviews, e-commerce and recommender data	Amazon reviews (2), TripAdvisor (2), Airbnb (1)	4
4	Corporate filings and text	10-K filings (1), Earnings call transcripts (1)	2
4	Search, news and web data	LexisNexis (1), Wikipedia (1)	2
6	Bond, loan and credit data	TRACE (1)	1
6	Company financial statements	Orbis (Bureau van Dijk) (1)	1
6	Education data	TIMSS / PIRLS (1)	1
6	Financial data platforms	Yahoo Finance (1)	1
6	Image classification benchmarks	ImageNet (1)	1

Latest information systems papers#

Latest information systems papers
Date	Title	Journal	Authors	Affiliations
2026-10-26	LLMs and attentional injustice in philosophy	Ethics and Information Technology	Joe Slater	University of Bristol
2026-10-24	Who needs digital designs for older adults? Disentangling barriers to digital use and the role of ageism in obscuring diverse user needs through a qualitative study	Telematics and Informatics Reports	Frankie Ho Chun Wong, Dara Kiu Yi Leung, Clarion Hau Ching Chan et al.	University of Hong Kong; Chinese University of Hong Kong; Rutgers, The State University of New Jersey
2026-10-24	From Big Data to Generative Artificial Intelligence: A Bibliometric Analysis of the Conceptual Structure and Thematic Evolution of Computational Social Science (2011–2025)	Information Systems Frontiers	Rukiye ÜNAL AYAZ, Hakan Özköse, Muhammet Berigel	Karadeniz Technical University; Bartin University
2026-10-24	AI vs. AI: An AI-Enabled Conversational Intervention to Inoculate Against AI-Generated Fake News	Information Systems Frontiers	Mohammad S. Najjar, Murtaza Nasir	Wichita State University
2026-10-24	Data-driven budget optimization for team sports	International Journal of Information Management Data Insights	Christos Spyropoulos, Polychronis Εconomou, Sotiris Bersimis	University of Piraeus; University of Patras
2026-10-23	When disclosure rules are not enough: authorial warrant and judgment in ai-supported scholarship	Ethics and Information Technology	Marcin Mirończuk	National Information Processing Institute
2026-10-23	Strategic showroom deployment and sharing as information provision under store brand competition	Information Technology and Management	Yitong Liu, Ming Dong	Shanghai Jiao Tong University
2026-10-22	A predictive analytics framework for cannibalization-aware retail expansion: A case study of a restaurant chain	International Journal of Information Management Data Insights	Farbod Motadel, Amirali Eghtesad, Abbas Saghaei	Islamic Azad University, Tehran; Islamic Azad University, Science and Research Branch
2026-10-22	Digital restraints: when AI may override human decisions	Ethics and Information Technology	Parker Crutchfield	Western Michigan University
2026-10-22	How IT Architecture Flexibility and Governance Decentralization Shape Digital Transformation Capabilities	Information Systems Frontiers	Andreas Olsen, Henri Hussinki, Patrick Mikalef	Norwegian University of Science and Technology; Lappeenranta-Lahti University of Technology
2026-10-22	Welcome to the fourth issue of Volume 35 of the Journal of Strategic Information Systems	The Journal of Strategic Information Systems	Benoit Aubert, Rajiv Sabherwal	HEC Montréal; University of Arkansas at Fayetteville
2026-10-22	Assessing Blockchain enabled traceability in halal supply chain finance: An integrated ISM-MICMAC-DEMATEL approach	Digital Business	Ilias Hussain, Bandna, Mushtaq Ahmad Shah	Lovely Professional University
2026-10-22	Imagining evil: from violent imaginings to violent extremist video games	Ethics and Information Technology	Joshua Kelsall	University of Warwick
2026-10-21	Is algorithmic media content awareness platform-specific? A replication and cross-platform validation	Telematics and Informatics	Cristián Buzeta, Antonia Guevara-Iturbe	University of Chile; Pontificia Universidad Católica de Chile
2026-10-21	Quantum Technology for Green IS: An Empirical Investigation of Quantum Technology Strategy for Green Hydrogen	Information Systems Frontiers	Prasanta Kumar Pattanaik, Shivam Gupta, Ashish Kumar Jha	Xavier School of Management; NEOMA Business School; Trinity College Dublin

Questions this page answers#

What are the most common topics in recent information systems research?: In the last 30 days, the most frequent OpenAlex keywords in papers from the tracked information systems journals were “generative AI” (9), “digital transformation” (6), “human-AI collaboration” (6), “human-AI interaction” (6) and “chatbots” (5).
Which universities and institutions publish the most information systems research?: In the last 30 days, the institutions with the most papers in the tracked information systems journals were NEOMA Business School (3), National Chung Hsing University (3), Yonsei University (3), Shanghai University (2) and Tongji University (2).
Which countries publish the most information systems research?: Counting papers with at least one author at an institution in the country, the leaders over the last 30 days were China (34), United States (21), Germany (8), South Korea (7) and United Kingdom (6).
Which equations and models do recent information systems research papers use most?: Counting papers that mention them by name in the title, abstract, keywords or full text, the most frequent in the tracked information systems journals over the last 30 days were Structural equation modeling (SEM) (13), Mediation model (indirect effect) (6), Logistic regression (logit) (5), Difference-in-differences (4) and Support vector machine (SVM) (3).
What data do recent information systems research papers use?: Counting papers that mention a dataset by name, the kinds of data used most over the last 30 days were Social media data (14), Optimization benchmark instances (9), Online reviews, e-commerce and recommender data (4), Corporate filings and text (2) and Search, news and web data (2); the most-mentioned datasets were OR-Library (9), Facebook (7), Twitter / X (3), YouTube / TikTok (3) and Amazon reviews (2).
Which information systems research topics are rising?: Compared with the ranking on 2026-10-22, the keywords that climbed the most were “generative AI” (new, now #1), “digital transformation” (new, now #2), “human-AI collaboration” (new, now #2), “human-AI interaction” (new, now #2) and “chatbots” (new, now #5).
How current is this data?: It is rebuilt from OpenAlex 4 times a day (00:00, 06:00, 12:00, 18:00, UTC+09:00); the last update was 2026-10-28 12:01 UTC+09:00. OpenAlex usually indexes new papers within a few days of publication.

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Scholar4AI. (2026). Information Systems research rankings. Journal Research Rankings. Retrieved October 28, 2026, from https://scholar4ai.com/categories/information-systems

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