The Evolution of the Enterprise Architecture: An Analysis Through a Bibliometric Methodology

Enterprise Architecture (EA) is currently an essential field in the academic community. The evolution of this field increased in the last two decades in several aspects, such as methods, tools and frameworks. This paper analysis the last twenty years, the main focus of EA. For that purpose, it was used a bibliometric methodology. The methodology was applied to a set of documents retrieved in two types of databases: open repositories and commercial databases. Several types of documents were retrieved from these repositories: scientific articles, book chapters, books and thesis.