A profile of information systems research published in expert systems with applications from 1995 to 2008

Expert systems with applications (ESWA) has been regarded as one of the highly qualified journals in the information system. This paper profiles research published in ESWA from 1995 to 2008. Based on the multidimensional analysis, we identified the most productive author and universities, research paper numbers per geographic region, and the most employed issues and methodologies used by the most highly published authors. Our results indicate that (1) ESWA is clearly an internationalized journal, (2) the most employed methodologies are fuzzy ESs and knowledge-based systems, and (3) the leading highly published authors always have diverse methodologies and applications. Furthermore, the implications for researchers, journal editors, universities, and research institution are presented.

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