The article "Trust: An MIS Quarterly Research Curation" by Matthias Söllner, Izak Benbasat, David Gefen, Jan Marco Leimeister and Paul A. Pavlou was published on the website of Management Information Systems Quarterly (MISQ). MISQ is one of the leading international journals in information systems. According to the JourQual 3 ranking, it is an A+ journal and has an impact factor of 5.384. The article has been published in the "Research Curations" category and is therefore freely accessible. Articles in this category are developed at the invitation of the Editor-in-Chief of MISQ by an internationally renowned team of experts in the respective subject area. Below you will find the link to the full text and the abstract of the article.

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Abstract: Trust is the enabler of social interaction. Although the origins of research on trust traditionally lie outside the Information Systems (IS) domain, the importance of trust for IS research rapidly grew in the late 1990s, and it is still growing with the increasing ubiquity and advancement of technology in organizations, virtual teams, online markets, and user-technology interactions. Theoretically, the central role of trust is tied to the growing social change that Information and Communication Technology (ICT) has always created, a trend increased by the introduction of electronic commerce, and with it the need to interact and commerce with total strangers. This trend is mirrored in major IS research fields, such as virtual teams and technology acceptance, and thus also naturally in the pages of MIS Quarterly. The importance of trust for IS research and its impact on the IS literature are also reflected by the fact that a trust-related paper (Gefen et al. 2003) is among the most highly cited articles published in MIS Quarterly, together with papers on TAM, knowledge management, and design science. Besides, two trust-related papers have won the MIS Quarterly Paper of the Year Award in 1998 (Kumar et al. 1998) and 2009, respectively (Cyr et al. 2009), and a Special Issue on trust was published in 2010 (Benbasat et al. 2010). Coupled with the facts that we have identified 33 papers relevant for this curation, and that these papers account for about 20,000 total citations, it is perhaps safe to argue that trust is one of the popular and well-cited areas of research in the IS literature, especially during the last 20 years.