Panel: Determining the Profile of the ECIS Community a Bibliometrics Approach

A plenary presentation at ECIS 2002 (Galliers and Whitley 2002) presented a first round of research that sought to determine the profile of ECIS as a distinct community of information systems researchers. ECIS draws on a strong tradition of IS research in Europe (the first information systems–specific conference to be held in the world was the Scandinavian IS Research Seminar (IRIS) in 1978) yet little is actually known about the profile of the European IS community. It is difficult to determine any distinctive features of the community until this profile is known. This panel aims to describe the evolving profile of the ECIS community.