George R. Widmeyer

1.9k total citations · 1 hit paper
22 papers, 1.1k citations indexed

About

George R. Widmeyer is a scholar working on Sociology and Political Science, Developmental and Educational Psychology and Artificial Intelligence. According to data from OpenAlex, George R. Widmeyer has authored 22 papers receiving a total of 1.1k indexed citations (citations by other indexed papers that have themselves been cited), including 7 papers in Sociology and Political Science, 7 papers in Developmental and Educational Psychology and 6 papers in Artificial Intelligence. Recurrent topics in George R. Widmeyer's work include Innovative Teaching and Learning Methods (5 papers), Educational Games and Gamification (5 papers) and Information Systems Theories and Implementation (4 papers). George R. Widmeyer is often cited by papers focused on Innovative Teaching and Learning Methods (5 papers), Educational Games and Gamification (5 papers) and Information Systems Theories and Implementation (4 papers). George R. Widmeyer collaborates with scholars based in United States, Sweden and Australia. George R. Widmeyer's co-authors include Omar A. El Sawy, Joseph Walls, Frada Burstein, Starr Roxanne Hiltz, Catherine Dwyer, Vladislav Rajkovič, Patrick Brézillon, Dina Berkeley, Sven A. Carlsson and Michael Recce and has published in prestigious journals such as Information Systems Research, Journal of Management Information Systems and Decision Support Systems.

In The Last Decade

George R. Widmeyer

21 papers receiving 955 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.

Building an Information System Design Theory for Vigilant EIS

1992 947 citations Joseph Walls, George R. Widmeyer et al. Information Systems Research profile →

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Name	h						Papers	Cites
George R. Widmeyer United States	8	560	365	223	144	135	22	1.1k
Joseph Walls United States	5	605 1.1×	418 1.1×	216 1.0×	157 1.1×	130 1.0×	9	1.1k
Minder Chen United States	15	379 0.7×	476 1.3×	427 1.9×	114 0.8×	173 1.3×	35	1.5k
Janice I. DeGross United States	13	457 0.8×	258 0.7×	188 0.8×	61 0.4×	132 1.0×	39	1.1k
Karlheinz Kautz Denmark	21	395 0.7×	473 1.3×	531 2.4×	86 0.6×	138 1.0×	117	1.4k
Mark S. Silver United States	9	527 0.9×	348 1.0×	149 0.7×	82 0.6×	247 1.8×	21	1.4k
Gwendolyn L. Kolfschoten Netherlands	22	242 0.4×	363 1.0×	343 1.5×	171 1.2×	158 1.2×	69	1.5k
Dirk S. Hovorka Australia	13	365 0.7×	183 0.5×	115 0.5×	78 0.5×	76 0.6×	66	766
Tom Butler Ireland	20	301 0.5×	277 0.8×	234 1.0×	47 0.3×	96 0.7×	73	1.3k
Munir Mandviwalla United States	15	367 0.7×	226 0.6×	192 0.9×	71 0.5×	56 0.4×	59	1.2k
Bo Dahlbom Sweden	7	396 0.7×	289 0.8×	129 0.6×	88 0.6×	72 0.5×	20	876

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Tuunanen, Tuure, Joseph Walls, & George R. Widmeyer. (2016). Introduction to the Advances in Design Research for Information Systems Minitrack. 4413–4413. 1 indexed citations

Widmeyer, George R., et al.. (2010). On the design and development of a domain based integrated knowledge repository. 7(1). 4–24. 1 indexed citations

Widmeyer, George R., et al.. (2009). Exploring Students’ Reactions to Virtual Worlds. Americas Conference on Information Systems. 656. 1 indexed citations

Widmeyer, George R., et al.. (2009). Affordances of Virtual World Commerce: Instrument Development and Validation. Journal of the Association for Information Systems. 304. 6 indexed citations

Widmeyer, George R., et al.. (2009). An Exploratory Review of Design Principles in Constructivist Gaming Learning Environments. The Journal of Information and Systems in Education. 20(3). 289–300. 20 indexed citations

Widmeyer, George R., et al.. (2009). Collaborative learning utilizing a domain-based shared data repository to enhance learning outcomes. Interactive Learning Environments. 17(4). 351–366. 3 indexed citations

Widmeyer, George R., et al.. (2008). Toward an Engaging Learning Experience for Students. Americas Conference on Information Systems. 125. 2 indexed citations

Dwyer, Catherine, Starr Roxanne Hiltz, & George R. Widmeyer. (2008). Understanding Development and Usage of Social Networking Sites: The Social Software Performance Model. 292–292. 38 indexed citations

Widmeyer, George R., et al.. (2008). N2 Heads Are Better than One: Collaborative Learning, Utilizing an Integrated Knowledge Repository, Facilitated through a Massively Multiplayer Online Gaming (MMOG) Paradigm. 8. 350–350. 1 indexed citations

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Widmeyer, George R., et al.. (2007). Fun, Simple and Instructive: Towards a Design Theory for a Constructivist Gaming Learning Environment. Americas Conference on Information Systems. 478. 1 indexed citations

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Burstein, Frada & George R. Widmeyer. (2006). Decision support in an uncertain and complex world. Decision Support Systems. 43(4). 1647–1649. 31 indexed citations

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Widmeyer, George R.. (2003). Decision support for reasoning about values. 1. 445–451. 1 indexed citations

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Widmeyer, George R.. (2003). The Trichotomy of Processes: a philosophical basis for information systems. AJIS. Australasian journal of information systems/AJIS. Australian journal of information systems/Australian journal of information systems. 11(1). 3 indexed citations

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Carlsson, Sven A. & George R. Widmeyer. (2002). Towards a theory of executive information systems. iii. 195–201. 6 indexed citations

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Berkeley, Dina, George R. Widmeyer, Patrick Brézillon, & Vladislav Rajkovič. (1998). Context Sensitive Decision Support Systems. IFIP advances in information and communication technology. 22 indexed citations

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Ives, Blake, George R. Widmeyer, & Michael Parks. (1995). The Electronic Commerce Course: An Early Vision of Learning in a Networked World. Journal of the Association for Information Systems. 385–386. 2 indexed citations

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Walls, Joseph, George R. Widmeyer, & Omar A. El Sawy. (1992). Building an Information System Design Theory for Vigilant EIS. Information Systems Research. 3(1). 36–59. 947 indexed citations breakdown →

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Widmeyer, George R.. (1990). Reasoning with preferences and values. Decision Support Systems. 6(2). 183–191. 4 indexed citations

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Widmeyer, George R.. (1988). Logic modeling with partially ordered preferences. Decision Support Systems. 4(1). 87–95. 2 indexed citations

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Widmeyer, George R., et al.. (1986). Shopping in the Electronic Marketplace. Journal of Management Information Systems. 2(4). 21–35. 25 indexed citations

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