An alternative perspective on citation classics: evidence from the first ten years of the European Conference on Information Systems

We present an alternative perspective to the many citation classics papers that have appeared in the IS literature by presenting citation data from the first 10 years of the European Conference on IS (ECIS, 1993–2002), identifying the most frequently cited texts in this sample. We compared the ECIS citation classics with those presented by others and suggest that the ECIS data highlight the ways in which the IS field is more nuanced than previously reported. We thus provided insights how the field has developed internationally.