Instructor

Gerit Wagner
Assistant Professor of Information Systems
Otto-Friedrich Universität Bamberg

Gerit Wagner is an assistant professor at the University of Bamberg (1). Until 2023, he held a postdoctoral fellowship at HEC Montréal, working on various literature review topics with Guy Paré. During this time, Gerit served as a teaching assistant for the literature review seminar. The seminar is offered for Ph.D. students from HEC Montréal, McGill University, Concordia University, and Université de Montréal a Québec. It brings together students from Information Systems, Organizational Behavior, International Management, Marketing, Finance, and Operations Research. Several of the review projects initiated in these seminars were published in reputable journals and conferences. The goal is to draw inspiration from this example, and to offer a literature review seminar that serves as a springboard for high-quality review papers.

Gerit is an active researcher in the field of Information Systems, with a focus on literature reviews and methodology. He regularly contributes to the scientific discourse on literature reviews, and his work has been published in journals like the Journal of Strategic Information Systems (JSIS), the Journal of Information Technology (JIT), and Information & Management (I&M). His work on the use of AI in the conduct of literature reviews was recently awarded with the JIT Best Paper Prize in 2023. Gerit has led the DFG-funded project named EPIQUALIS (Epistemological Advances Through Qualitative Literature Reviews in Information Systems Research), and currently serves as an associate editor for the Communications of the Association for Information Systems, and the International Conference on Information Systems (focusing on literature review methods). He is the lead developer for open-source literature review software such as CoLRev and BibDedupe.

Selected publications

Schryen, G., Wagner, G., Benlian, A., and Paré, G. (2020). “A Knowledge Development Perspective on Literature Reviews: Validation of a New Typology in the IS Field,” Communications of the Association for Information Systems, 46 (Paper 7), 134–186. doi:10.17705/1CAIS.04607

Wagner, G., Prester, J., Roche, M. P., Schryen, G., Benlian, A., Paré, G., and Templier, M. (2021). “Which Factors Affect the Scientific Impact of Review Papers in IS Research? A Scientometric Study”. Information & Management, 58(3), 103427. doi:10.1016/j.im.2021.103427

Wagner, G., Lukyanenko, R., & Paré, G. (2022). Artificial intelligence and the conduct of literature reviews. Journal of Information Technology, 37(2), 209-226. doi:10.1177/0268396221104820

Paré, G., Wagner, G., & Prester, J. (2023). How to develop and frame impactful review articles: key recommendations. Journal of Decision Systems, 1-17. doi:10.1080/12460125.2023.2197701

Wagner, G., Prester, J., & Paré, G. (2021). Exploring the boundaries and processes of digital platforms for knowledge work: A review of information systems research. The Journal of Strategic Information Systems, 30(4), 101694. doi:10.1016/j.jsis.2021.101694