Research on the Developments of Business Intelligence and its Enlightenment based on Bibliometric Statistics and Knowledge Map Analysis

Abstract

In the information age, the ability of information processing and utilizing has become the key to establish the success or failure of enterprises. Faced with the rapid growth of corporate data, traditional data management methods are in vain and then business intelligence has emerged. At first of the study, 876 papers from SCI-expanded and SSCI during 1997-2017 are collected to form the database. And then the present work which assisted by CiteSpace performs a bibliometric analysis to evaluate the research publications on business intelligence based on the above database. The paper presents a scenario of the field from three aspects: annual publication amount, the trend in research, citation. Lastly, results show that Journal “Expert Systems with Applications” published the most papers relating to business intelligence during 1997-2017, which has great influence and authority by measuring many indexes and Article “Business intelligence and analytics: from big data to big impact” is the most cited paper of business intelligence during 1997-2017. Among the geographic locations of the researchers, Europe was proved to be the most productive area and America always has a leading position. Among research hotspots of business intelligence, “cloud computing” is the latest hotspot. Through above studies, it can be learned that faced with the era of big data, business intelligence and cloud computing will be integrated deeply and constantly. The result of the present investigation would help the business intelligence researchers to understand the overall situation prevailing in this specialized field.