Comparing European and North American IS Research Using Concept Frequency Analysis: Methods and Preliminary Findings

This study introduces a computational text-mining technique called Concept Frequency Analysis, and demonstrates its usefulness by detecting convergence and divergence trends between North American and European information systems (IS) research. Applying this technique to the corpora of articles published in leading North American and European IS journals (MISQ and ISR vs. EJIS and JIT, respectively) from 1991 through 2013 (2,959 articles), …