With the rapidly changing institutional and technological environment for information systems research, it is useful to examine how the conduct of research itself has been changing. In this Debates and Perspectives article, based on analysis of over 1800 articles, we first describe trends from 2000 to 2015 in co-authorship, research areas, unit of analysis, and research direction-setting initiatives. Our results indicate a rising trend among information systems researchers toward co-authorship. We also find that information systems research converges on a few broad research areas, and there is increasing diversity of topics within these broad themes. Concerning level of analysis, our results indicate a decreasing trend toward macro (organizational) studies. Finally, we note a lack of positive significant trends in the publication of special issue articles, review articles, and meta-analytic studies. We then offer our perspective regarding these trends along with a discussion of the importance of managing vicious and virtuous cycles that may result from community adaptations to environmental changes.

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信息系统研究的趋势

随着信息系统研究的制度和技术环境的迅速变化，检查研究行为本身是如何变化的很有用。在这篇辩论和观点文章中，基于对 1800 多篇文章的分析，我们首先描述了 2000 年至 2015 年在合着、研究领域、分析单位和研究方向设定举措方面的趋势。我们的结果表明，信息系统研究人员对合着的趋势呈上升趋势。我们还发现信息系统研究集中在几个广泛的研究领域，并且在这些广泛的主题中主题越来越多样化。关于分析水平，我们的结果表明宏观（组织）研究呈下降趋势。最后，我们注意到特刊文章、评论文章和元分析研究的发表缺乏积极的重大趋势。然后，我们提供了对这些趋势的看法，并讨论了管理可能由社区适应环境变化而导致的恶性和良性循环的重要性。