英文摘要 |
Perceived journal preference of successful electronic commerce (EC) researchers is an important cue for subsequent researchers in EC academic community. This article contributes to and develops the discussion on the journal preference patterns of researchers in electronic commerce academic community. Some studies of the EC literature have made some contributions from various views. For examples, Bharati and Tarasewich (2002) especially provided a newly EC journal list, based on the global researchers’ subjective perception data. It is clear that this list has provided a reference collected by subjective opinion survey. Furthermore, being an EC researcher, two problems should be necessary to resolve but leave unanswered: (1)Which journals collected by objective method do successful EC researchers prefer reading? (2) What are distinct features of EC journal compared with traditional MIS journal? As now, the need of assessing EC publications outlets based on the basis of latest journal ranking list has been met. However, those two mentioned challenges for EC researchers still leave unanswered. The purpose of this study is to contribute one perspective answering the two questions through more objective citation analysis approach. The findings in this study reveal that (1) successful EC researchers have paid more attention on MIS, computer science, marketing, finance and economics, consumer behavior, and computer-mediated communication field; (2) some different features between EC journal and traditional MIS journal were reported. |