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Information Systems Frontiers is a leading international journal that publishes research at the interface between information systems and information technology. The journal was launched in 1999. In 2019, the journal celebrates the 20th anniversary. Motivated by this event, this paper aims to review this first twenty years of publication record to uncover trends most influential on ISF. The analysis considers various metics including citation structure of the journal, most-cited papers, the most influential authors, institutions and countries, and citing articles. Importantly, the paper presents a thematic analysis of the publications that appeared in ISF in the past 20 years. The thematic analysis is evidenced by two sources of data: First, a bibliometric analysis highlighting core topics within the past 20 years is presented. Second, a semantic analysis of keywords introduced by the authors themselves is applied.

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  1. School of Information, Systems and Modelling, Faculty of Engineering and Information Technology, University of Technology Sydney, 81 Broadway, Ultimo, NSW, 2007, Australia

    Ghassan Beydoun, Babak Abedin & José M. Merigó

  2. Department of Management Control and Information Systems, School of Economics and Business, University of Chile, Av. Diagonal Paraguay 257, 8330015, Santiago, Chile

    José M. Merigó & Melanie Vera

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Beydoun, G., Abedin, B., Merigó, J.M. et al. Twenty Years of Information Systems Frontiers. Inf Syst Front 21, 485–494 (2019). https://doi.org/10.1007/s10796-019-09925-x

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