A productivity review study on TRA and TAM literature using bibliometric methodology

This study is a productivity review on the literature gleaned from SSCI, SCIE databases concerning the TRA and TAM of Web of Science created by ISL The result indicats that the number of literature productions on TRA and TAM is still growing. The main research development country is the United States, and from the analysis of the distribution of language, English is the most popular language for TRA and TAM literature. Moreover, by applying bibliometric techniques (Lotka´s Law, Price´s Law and 80/20 Law), this study investigated literature growth and author productivity from 1982 to 2009. The research findings show that a relatively large percentage of authors (82.48%) contributed only one article, which is a much higher percentage than the 60% found in Lotka´s original data. According to the K-S test, the distribution of frequency indexes of author productivity match Lotka´s law, but Price´s Law and the 80/20 Rule don´t apply to this study.