What is SIC

Information systems is a field that is highly relevant to the business environment. As a relevant concept, industry covers businesses that might have similar problems and processes. Problems and case studies from the industry are often covered in information systems publications. Considering the relevance of the industry concept, this chapter follows a scientometric approach to examine research interest from the information systems discipline towards sectors and industries. The approach depends on the industry codes involved in publication meta-data by EBSCO. Meta-data was collected for articles published in 20 information systems journals between 1996 and 2020. The results present an overview of relevant North American Industry Classification System (NAICS) sectors for selected information systems journals, as well as the most active journals by sector. A comparison of annual publication counts is presented, and the authors highlight the trends of research interest towards sectors.