Mapping of Business Intelligence Research Themes: Four Decade Review

Research on business intelligence continues to develop but is limited to one country and/or one field. From the perspective of bibliometric reviews, this study purposes to visually research mapping and research trends in the field of business intelligence on an international scale. This study used bibliometric techniques with secondary data from Scopus. Analyze and visualize data using the VOSViewer program and the analyse search results function on Scopus. This study analyzed 244 scientific documents published from 1975 to 2020. According to the research, Monash University, and Yeoh, W. had the most active affiliated institutions and individual scientists in business intelligence research. Business, management, and accounting; and Lecture Notes in Business Information Processing were the most studied and disseminated outlets of business intelligence research. There were five category maps of collaborative researchers from around the world. Based on the identification of a collection of knowledge accumulated from over forty-five years of publication, this research proposes a grouping of business intelligence research themes: Business analytics, Element of marketing, Competitive intelligence, Intelligence system, Industry, and Business process abbreviated as BECIIB themes.