A Topical Exploration of the Intellectual Development of Decision Sciences 1975–2016

This article reviews Decision Sciences journal articles and metadata to analyze its intellectual tradition. Text analytics is used with probabilistic topic modeling. The topical structure of the journal is reviewed by topic definition and popularity, with correlations. Fifty research topics or themes involving a wide range of quantitative methods and decision‐making practice were selected. Functional areas were also examined. The evolution of...