A fad or future of IT?: A comprehensive literature review on the cloud computing research

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Highlights：

• We’ve examined the development and evolution of cloud computing research through the content analysis of articles, which were published between 2009 and 2014.

• The results indicate that the majority of the cloud computing research is about the “cloud computing adoption” (19%), and “legal & ethical issues” of cloud computing (15%).

• “Benefits & challenges of cloud computing” (5%) and “energy consumption dimension of cloud computing” (4%) are the least attention-grabbing themes in the literature.

• Finally, it is found that the majority of the articles were published by engineering, information systems or technical journals. This topic is generally ignored by the managerial journals even though the impact of cloud computing on organizations is immense.

摘要

•We’ve examined the development and evolution of cloud computing research through the content analysis of articles, which were published between 2009 and 2014.•The results indicate that the majority of the cloud computing research is about the “cloud computing adoption” (19%), and “legal & ethical issues” of cloud computing (15%).•“Benefits & challenges of cloud computing” (5%) and “energy consumption dimension of cloud computing” (4%) are the least attention-grabbing themes in the literature.•Finally, it is found that the majority of the articles were published by engineering, information systems or technical journals. This topic is generally ignored by the managerial journals even though the impact of cloud computing on organizations is immense.

论文关键词：Cloud computing,Content analysis,Trend analysis

论文评审过程：Received 28 January 2015, Revised 31 January 2016, Accepted 3 April 2016, Available online 14 April 2016, Version of Record 14 April 2016.

论文官网地址：https://doi.org/10.1016/j.ijinfomgt.2016.04.006