Bijan Azad

2.0k total citations · 1 hit paper
28 papers, 991 citations indexed

About

Bijan Azad is a scholar working on Sociology and Political Science, Communication and Political Science and International Relations. According to data from OpenAlex, Bijan Azad has authored 28 papers receiving a total of 991 indexed citations (citations by other indexed papers that have themselves been cited), including 14 papers in Sociology and Political Science, 7 papers in Communication and 7 papers in Political Science and International Relations. Recurrent topics in Bijan Azad's work include Information Systems Theories and Implementation (12 papers), E-Government and Public Services (7 papers) and Social Media and Politics (5 papers). Bijan Azad is often cited by papers focused on Information Systems Theories and Implementation (12 papers), E-Government and Public Services (7 papers) and Social Media and Politics (5 papers). Bijan Azad collaborates with scholars based in Lebanon, Canada and United States. Bijan Azad's co-authors include Samer Faraj, Ann Majchrzak, Gerald C. Kane, Nelson King, Fouad Zablith, Jie Mein Goh, Jeffrey K. Pinto, Anita Greenhill, Trevor Wood‐Harper and Mostafa Mesgari and has published in prestigious journals such as Journal of the Association for Information Systems, Long Range Planning and Journal of Computer-Mediated Communication.

In The Last Decade

Bijan Azad

25 papers receiving 920 citations

Hit Papers

The Contradictory Influence of Social Media Affordances o... 2013 2026 2017 2021 2013 200 400 600
What are hit papers?

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.

  1. The Contradictory Influence of Social Media Affordances on Online Communal Knowledge Sharing
    2013 626 citations Samer Faraj, Bijan Azad et al. profile →

Peers — A (Enhanced Table)

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

Name h Career Trend Papers Cites
Bijan Azad Lebanon 10 529 420 181 145 130 28 991
Xunhua Guo China 17 478 0.9× 231 0.6× 390 2.2× 112 0.8× 109 0.8× 82 961
Ryad Titah Canada 13 456 0.9× 181 0.4× 498 2.8× 131 0.9× 232 1.8× 22 1.1k
Hazel Hall United Kingdom 18 376 0.7× 693 1.6× 235 1.3× 67 0.5× 53 0.4× 80 1.4k
Lai Lai Tung Singapore 13 328 0.6× 271 0.6× 476 2.6× 117 0.8× 164 1.3× 28 981
Evgeny Káganer Spain 11 297 0.6× 158 0.4× 93 0.5× 163 1.1× 63 0.5× 21 852
J. J. Po-An Hsieh United States 13 397 0.8× 326 0.8× 667 3.7× 267 1.8× 63 0.5× 27 1.1k
Clive Sanford United States 10 344 0.7× 207 0.5× 403 2.2× 56 0.4× 147 1.1× 22 787
Darren Meister Canada 13 393 0.7× 438 1.0× 475 2.6× 192 1.3× 39 0.3× 28 1.2k
Helen S. Du China 16 486 0.9× 293 0.7× 223 1.2× 48 0.3× 23 0.2× 52 1.3k
S. Newell United States 16 237 0.4× 266 0.6× 172 1.0× 383 2.6× 53 0.4× 56 1.2k

Countries citing papers authored by Bijan Azad

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Fields of papers citing papers by Bijan Azad

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Co-authorship network of co-authors of Bijan Azad

This figure shows the co-authorship network connecting the top 25 collaborators of Bijan Azad. A scholar is included among the top collaborators of Bijan Azad based on the total number of citations received by their joint publications. Widths of edges represent the number of papers authors have co-authored together. Node borders signify the number of papers an author published with Bijan Azad. Bijan Azad is excluded from the visualization to improve readability, since they are connected to all nodes in the network.

All Works

20 of 20 papers shown
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Mesgari, Mostafa, et al.. (2023). Affordances and Information Systems Research: Taking Stock and Moving Forward. ACM SIGMIS Database the DATABASE for Advances in Information Systems. 54(2). 29–52. 4 indexed citations
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Azad, Bijan & Fouad Zablith. (2022). An emergent mechanism of inclusive e-Government design: The interplay of user design input and provider response. Information Polity. 27(4). 433–453. 1 indexed citations
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Zablith, Fouad & Bijan Azad. (2021). Reconciling Instructors’ and Students’ Course Overlap Perspectives via Linked Data Visualization. IEEE Transactions on Learning Technologies. 14(5). 680–694. 1 indexed citations
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Azad, Bijan & Fouad Zablith. (2018). Affordance Lens onto Perceived Challenges of e-Public Services: Exploring Barriers to e-Government. Academy of Management Proceedings. 2018(1). 16139–16139. 2 indexed citations
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Azad, Bijan, et al.. (2017). Role of Innovation Incubators and Accelerators in Alleviating the Refugee Crisis. Journal of the Association for Information Systems. 1 indexed citations
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Zablith, Fouad, Bijan Azad, & Ibrahim H. Osman. (2017). Catalyst: Piloting Capabilities for more Transparent Text Analytics. Journal of the Association for Information Systems. 1 indexed citations
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Azad, Bijan & Nelson King. (2017). Rethinking How Computer Workarounds Emerge: Taking Workarounds Seriously but not Negatively!. Academy of Management Proceedings. 2017(1). 11764–11764. 2 indexed citations
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Zablith, Fouad, Samer Faraj, & Bijan Azad. (2016). Organizational knowledge generation: lessons from online communities. Business Process Management Journal. 22(1). 33–55. 8 indexed citations
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Azad, Bijan, et al.. (2013). The elicitation of key performance indicators of e-government providers: A bottom-up approach. Brunel University Research Archive (BURA) (Brunel University London). 3 indexed citations
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Azad, Bijan. (2013). Sociomateriality of Corruption: Technology as a Lens onto Materialization of Power/Knowledge. Academy of Management Proceedings. 2013(1). 16216–16216. 2 indexed citations
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Mesgari, Mostafa & Bijan Azad. (2013). A Selective Review of Affordance Lens for Organization-Technology Research. Academy of Management Proceedings. 2013(1). 14762–14762.
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Azad, Bijan & Nelson King. (2011). Institutionalized computer workaround practices in a Mediterranean country: an examination of two organizations. European Journal of Information Systems. 21(4). 358–372. 57 indexed citations
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King, Nelson & Bijan Azad. (2011). A Synthetic Representation of Inter-Organizational Multi-Actor Collaborative Structures: A Pragmatic Look at U.S. E-Prescribing. 10(130). 1 indexed citations
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Azad, Bijan & Samer Faraj. (2010). Social power and information technology implementation: a contentious framing lens. Information Systems Journal. 21(1). 33–61. 41 indexed citations
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Azad, Bijan, et al.. (2008). Contested meaning: Power and frames in IT implementation. Scopus. 1 indexed citations
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Azad, Bijan & Nelson King. (2008). Situated practices of computer workarounds in a hospital medication system: A Case study. Scopus. 1 indexed citations
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Azad, Bijan & Nelson King. (2008). Enacting computer workaround practices within a medication dispensing system. European Journal of Information Systems. 17(3). 264–278. 91 indexed citations
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Azad, Bijan & Samer Faraj. (2008). Making e-Government systems workable: Exploring the evolution of frames. The Journal of Strategic Information Systems. 17(2). 75–98. 47 indexed citations
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Azad, Bijan & Samer Faraj. (2008). CONTESTED MEANING: POWER AND FRAMES IN IT IMPLEMENTATION.. Academy of Management Proceedings. 2008(1). 1–6. 2 indexed citations
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Pinto, Jeffrey K. & Bijan Azad. (1994). The role of organizational politics in GIS implementation. 6(2). 35–61. 14 indexed citations

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