Mapping the intellectual structure of mobile commerce

Abstract

The rapid growth of mobile applications has given rise to mobile commerce. More people use mobile phones to get online. Mobile commerce has attracted significant attention in the last few years. To explore the intellectual structure of mobile commerce research in the last two five years, this study identified the most important publications and the most influential scholars as well as the correlations among these scholar's publications. By analyzing 25,752 citations of 679 articles published in SSCI journal in mobile commerce area between 2004 and 2013, the results indicate that the Technology Acceptance Model has been the most frequently used base for Mobile-commerce studies.