Alexander Simons

3.5k total citations · 2 hit papers
38 papers, 2.2k citations indexed

About

Alexander Simons is a scholar working on Management Information Systems, Information Systems and Artificial Intelligence. According to data from OpenAlex, Alexander Simons has authored 38 papers receiving a total of 2.2k indexed citations (citations by other indexed papers that have themselves been cited), including 27 papers in Management Information Systems, 11 papers in Information Systems and 7 papers in Artificial Intelligence. Recurrent topics in Alexander Simons's work include Business Process Modeling and Analysis (18 papers), Information Systems and Technology Applications (10 papers) and Information Technology Governance and Strategy (9 papers). Alexander Simons is often cited by papers focused on Business Process Modeling and Analysis (18 papers), Information Systems and Technology Applications (10 papers) and Information Technology Governance and Strategy (9 papers). Alexander Simons collaborates with scholars based in Liechtenstein, Germany and Switzerland. Alexander Simons's co-authors include Jan vom Brocke, Björn Niehaves, Anne Cleven, Ralf Plattfaut, Kai Riemer, Stefan Stieglitz, Jörg Becker, Markus Weinmann, Jens Poeppelbuss and Jens Pöppelbuß and has published in prestigious journals such as European Journal of Operational Research, Journal of the Association for Information Systems and Business Process Management Journal.

In The Last Decade

Alexander Simons

38 papers receiving 2.1k citations

Hit Papers

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Hit papers significantly outperform the citation benchmark for their cohort. A paper qualifies if it has ≥500 total citations, achieves ≥1.5× the top-1% citation threshold for papers in the same subfield and year (this is the minimum needed to enter the top 1%, not the average within it), or reaches the top citation threshold in at least one of its specific research topics.

Reconstructing the Giant: On the Importance of Rigour in Documenting the Literature Search Process

2009 915 citations Jan vom Brocke, Alexander Simons et al. European Conference on Information Systems profile →
Standing on the Shoulders of Giants: Challenges and Recommendations of Literature Search in Information Systems Research

2015 401 citations Jan vom Brocke, Alexander Simons et al. Communications of the Association for Information Systems profile →

Peers — A (Enhanced Table)

Peers by citation overlap · career bar shows stage (early→late) cites · hero ref

Name	h						Papers	Cites
Alexander Simons Liechtenstein	16	855	455	375	321	216	38	2.2k
Ralf Plattfaut Germany	18	762 0.9×	411 0.9×	437 1.2×	425 1.3×	272 1.3×	67	2.3k
Christine Legner Switzerland	20	882 1.0×	477 1.0×	322 0.9×	451 1.4×	226 1.0×	121	2.0k
Tobias Mettler Switzerland	23	561 0.7×	221 0.5×	344 0.9×	313 1.0×	168 0.8×	107	1.8k
Armin Heinzl Germany	25	1.0k 1.2×	546 1.2×	415 1.1×	637 2.0×	211 1.0×	163	3.0k
Peter Loos Germany	23	1.2k 1.4×	731 1.6×	372 1.0×	497 1.5×	256 1.2×	208	2.6k
Jeannette Paschen Sweden	15	482 0.6×	528 1.2×	563 1.5×	341 1.1×	474 2.2×	18	2.0k
Muhammad Anshari Brunei	26	496 0.6×	636 1.4×	598 1.6×	200 0.6×	243 1.1×	142	2.5k
Felix Wortmann Switzerland	25	544 0.6×	491 1.1×	227 0.6×	411 1.3×	291 1.3×	108	2.2k
Iman Akour United Arab Emirates	21	365 0.4×	359 0.8×	333 0.9×	370 1.2×	155 0.7×	60	2.4k
Anne Cleven Switzerland	9	619 0.7×	390 0.9×	315 0.8×	286 0.9×	156 0.7×	16	1.6k

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Co-authorship network of co-authors of Alexander Simons

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Simons, Alexander, et al.. (2023). Intelligence at play: game-based assessment using a virtual-reality application. Virtual Reality. 27(3). 1827–1843. 6 indexed citations

Simons, Alexander, et al.. (2018). ECM implementations in practice: objectives, processes, and technologies. Journal of Enterprise Information Management. 31(5). 704–723. 11 indexed citations

Weinmann, Markus, et al.. (2017). Get It before It’s Gone? How Limited Rewards Influence Backers’ Choices in Reward-Based Crowdfunding. International Conference on Information Systems. 11 indexed citations

Simons, Alexander, et al.. (2016). The Decoy Effect in Reward-Based Crowdfunding: Preliminary Results from an Online Experiment.. International Conference on Information Systems. 11 indexed citations

Brocke, Jan vom, Alexander Simons, Kai Riemer, et al.. (2015). Standing on the Shoulders of Giants: Challenges and Recommendations of Literature Search in Information Systems Research. Communications of the Association for Information Systems. 37. 401 indexed citations breakdown →

Simons, Alexander, et al.. (2015). Do Good Gamers Make Good Students? Sid Meier's Civilization and Performance Prediction. International Conference on Information Systems. 1 indexed citations

Herbst, Andrea, et al.. (2014). IDENTIFYING AND CHARACTERIZING TOPICS IN ENTERPRISE CONTENT MANAGEMENT: A LATENT SEMANTIC ANALYSIS OF VENDOR CASE STUDIES. Journal of the Association for Information Systems. 6 indexed citations

Brocke, Jan vom & Alexander Simons. (2013). Enterprise Content Management in Information Systems Research: Foundations, Methods and Cases. Digital Access to Libraries (Université catholique de Louvain (UCL), l'Université de Namur (UNamur) and the Université Saint-Louis (USL-B)). 4 indexed citations

Brocke, Jan vom, et al.. (2011). THE DRIVERS BEHIND ENTERPRISE CONTENT MANAGEMENT: A PROCESS-ORIENTED PERSPECTIVE. Journal of the Association for Information Systems. 37. 17 indexed citations

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Simons, Alexander, et al.. (2011). Performance evaluation under uncertainty: The impact of information system integration on procedural justice perceptions. European Conference on Information Systems. 11. 1 indexed citations

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Simons, Alexander, et al.. (2011). A Study on the Acceptance of ECM Systems.. Journal of the Association for Information Systems. 77. 6 indexed citations

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Poeppelbuss, Jens, Björn Niehaves, Alexander Simons, & Jörg Becker. (2011). Maturity Models in Information Systems Research: Literature Search and Analysis. Communications of the Association for Information Systems. 29. 133 indexed citations

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Becker, Jörg, Björn Niehaves, Jens Pöppelbuß, & Alexander Simons. (2010). Maturity Models in IS Research. Journal of the Association for Information Systems. 77 indexed citations

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Brocke, Jan vom, et al.. (2009). Reconstructing the Giant: On the Importance of Rigour in Documenting the Literature Search Process. European Conference on Information Systems. 2206–2217. 915 indexed citations breakdown →

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Brocke, Jan vom, Christian Sonnenberg, & Alexander Simons. (2009). WERTORIENTIERTES PROZESSMANAGEMENT: STATE-OF-THE-ART UND ZUKÜNFTIGER FORSCHUNGSBEDARF. WIRTSCHAFTSINFORMATIK. 253–264. 5 indexed citations

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Brocke, Jan vom, Christian Sonnenberg, & Alexander Simons. (2009). Value-oriented Information Systems Design: The Concept of Potentials Modeling and its Application to Service-oriented Architectures. Journal of the Association for Information Systems. 1(3). 223–233. 24 indexed citations

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Becker, Jörg, et al.. (2008). Conceptual Modeling of Enterprise Content. 2 indexed citations

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Brocke, Jan vom, Alexander Simons, & Anne Cleven. (2008). A Business Process Perspective on Enterprise Content Management: Towards a Framework for Organisational Change. Alexandria (UniSG) (University of St.Gallen). 1680–1691. 23 indexed citations

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Brocke, Jan vom & Alexander Simons. (2008). Towards a Process Model for Digital Content Analysis – The Case of Hilti. Journal of the Association for Information Systems. 2. 9 indexed citations

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Brocke, Jan vom, et al.. (2008). Towards the Specification of Digital Content – The Enterprise Content Modeling Language (ECML). Americas Conference on Information Systems. 403. 8 indexed citations

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