The authors examine the implications of electronic shopping for consumers, retailers, and manufacturers. They assume that near-term technological developments will offer consumers unparalleled opportunities to locate and compare product offerings. They examine these advantages as a function of typical consumer goals and the types of products and services being sought and offer conclusions regarding consumer incentives and disincentives to purchase through interactive home shopping vis-à-vis traditional retail formats. The authors discuss implications for industry structure as they pertain to competition among retailers, competition among manufacturers, and retailer-manufacturer relationships.

Interactive home shopping: Consumer, retailer, and manufacturer incentives to participate in

Mapping the Research Trends by Co-word Analysis Based on Keywords from Funded Project

This study employs hierarchical cluster analysis, strategic diagrams and network analysis to map and visualize the intellectual landscape of the CHI conference on Human Computer Interaction through the use of co-word analysis. The study quantifies and describes the thematic evolution of the field based on a total of 3152 CHI articles and their associated 16035 keywords published between 1994 and 2013. The analysis is conducted for two time periods (1994-2003, 2004-2013) and a comparison between them highlights the underlying trends in our community. More significantly, this study identifies the evolution of major themes in the discipline, and highlights individual topics as popular, core, or backbone research topics within HCI.

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CHI 1994-2013: mapping two decades of intellectual progress through co-word analysis

In order to build a complete structure of subjects areas in iMetrics, both types of keywords are included in this study. Application of hierarchical clustering analysis led to the formation of 11 subject clusters in iMetrics. Analysis of the strategic diagram showed two most comprehensive themes of iMetrics. In spite of their similarity with those of Courtial (1994), clusters in this study were different from several aspects. As an iMetrics technique, co-word analysis is used to describe the status of various subject areas, however, iMetrics itself is not examined by a co-word analysis. For the purpose of using co-word analysis, this study tries to investigate the intellectual structure of iMetrics during the period of 1978 to 2014. The research data are retrieved from two core journals on iMetrics research (Scientometrics, and Journal of Informetrics) and relevant articles in six journals publishing iMetrics studies. Application of hierarchical clustering led to the formation of 11 clusters representing the intellectual structure of iMetrics, including Scientometric Databases and Indicators, Citation Analysis, Sociology of Science, Issues Related to Rankings of Universities, Journals, etc., Information Visualization and Retrieval, Mapping Intellectual Structure of Science, Webometrics, IndustryUniversityGovernment Relations, Technometrics (Innovation and Patents), Scientific Collaboration in Universities, and Basics of Network Analysis. Furthermore, a two-dimensional map and a strategic diagram are drawn to clarify the structure, maturity, and cohesion of clusters.

Intellectual structure of knowledge in iMetrics

Contemporary corporate eco-innovation research: A systematic review

The aim of this paper is to map the intellectual structure of research in doctoral dissertations of Library and Information Science in China. By use of Co-word analysis, including cluster analysis, strategic diagram and social network analysis, we studied the internal and external structure and relationship of research fields in doctoral dissertations of Library and Information Science in China. Data was collected, during the period of 1994---2011, from six public dissertation databases and ten degree databases provided by the universities/institutes which have been authorized to grant doctoral degrees of Library and Information Science in China. The results show that Wuhan University is the most important institution of doctoral education in LIS in China. The focuses of researches, including information resource, ontology, semantic web, semantic search, electronic government, information resource management, knowledge management, knowledge innovation, knowledge sharing, knowledge organization, network, information service, information need and digital library. The research fields of LIS doctoral dissertations in China are varied. Many of these research fields are still immature; accordingly, the well-developed and core research fields are fewer.

Doctoral dissertations of Library and Information Science in China: A co-word analysis

As online consumer behavior is being paid more and more attentions from both managers and academic researchers, it is urgent to understand the whole landscape of the research field. Since then, this paper, based on knowledge metric analysis technique of mapping knowledge domains, reviews the literature of online consumer behavior research from three perspectives – the development of the research around the world, the theoretical foundations of the research and the focused topics, providing some insights for future studies.

A review of online consumer behavior research

This paper collected 1696 literatures of acceptance of information technology (IT) as the data sample, which were cited by Web of Science (SCI-EXPANDED, SSCI, A&HCI, CPCI-S, CPCI-SSH) from 1985 to2010. Based on the method of mapping knowledge domains, this article used keyword frequency analysis, burst terms detecting, and co-citation analysis to analyse the research focus, frontier and theoretical foundation of acceptance of IT research, and draw the knowledge mapping of them.

Visual Analysis of Research on Acceptance of Information Technology.

It has been gradually realized that the research of Information Security should beyond the only perspective of technology, but from a perspective of inter-discipline. However, researchers belonging to a certain discipline often seem to have a poor awareness of the contributions made by researchers in other disciplines. In order to help researchers fully understand the contributions made by researchers in other disciplines, this paper, with the method of Mapping Knowledge Domains, identifies four clusters of core documents that get more attention and analyze the contents of core documents in each cluster. Finally, there is also an analysis on evolution of these core documents in this paper.

Qian-Jin Zong

Papers

Doctoral dissertations of Library and Information Science in China: A co-word analysis

A review of online consumer behavior research

Visual Analysis of Research on Acceptance of Information Technology.

Analysis of core documents in information security based on mapping knowledge domains

Analysis of Core Documents in Information Security Based on Mapping Knowledge Domains.