In 2019, the International Journal of Information Management (IJIM) celebrated its 40th year of publication. This study commemorates this event by presenting a retrospect of the journal. Using a range of bibliometric tools, we find that the journal has grown impressively in terms of publication and citation. The contributions come from all over the world, but the majority are from Europe and the United States. The journal has mostly published empirical articles, with its authors dominantly using quantitative methodology. Further, the culture of collaboration has increased among authors over the years. The journal publishes on a number of including managing information systems, information technologies and their application in business, technology acceptance among consumers, using information systems for decision making, social perspectives on knowledge management, and information research from the social science perspective. Regression analysis reveals that article attributes such as article order, methodology, presence of authors from Europe, number of references, number of keywords, and abstract length have a significant association with the citations. Finally, we find that conceptual and review articles have a positive association with citations.

2019年，《国际信息管理杂志》（IJIM）庆祝成立40周年。本研究通过回顾期刊来纪念这一事件。通过使用各种文献计量工具，我们发现该期刊在出版和引文方面取得了令人瞩目的增长。捐款来自世界各地，但大多数来自欧洲和美国。该杂志主要发表经验文章，其作者主要使用定量方法。此外，多年来合作者之间的协作文化已经增强。该期刊出版了许多内容，包括管理信息系统，信息技术及其在商业中的应用，消费者对技术的接受程度，使用信息系统进行决策，关于知识管理的社会观点，社会科学视角的信息研究。回归分析显示，文章属性（例如文章顺序，方法，来自欧洲的作者的存在，参考文献的数量，关键字的数量和摘要的长度）与引文有显着关联。最后，我们发现概念文章和评论文章与引文有正相关关系。