IS Publications Main Page

Section Editor: Nicholas C. Romano, Jr.
Management Science and Information Systems
Oklahoma State University, Stillwater/Tulsa USA

Section Purpose:
This section is designed to assist in finding Internet Sites for IS and Related Discipline Journals and other Publications through an ASP Search Page and to provide links to other Internet Journal and Publication related resources within and outside the ISWORLD web site. Presently the new site has 200+ publications, but we are in the process of adding additional ones to the database and will make them available as soon as possible.

Featured Article:

Clyde W. Holsapple

A publication power approach for identifying premier information systems journals Journal of the American Society for Information Science and Technology 59(2) 166-185, 2008: online at: http://www3.interscience.wiley.com/cgi-bin/abstract/117356405/ABSTRACT?CRETRY=1&SRETRY=0

Index Terms

journals • impact factor • analytic models • information science • scholarly publishing

Abstract

Stressing that some universities have adopted unrealistic requirements for tenure of information systems (IS) faculty members, a recent editorial in MIS Quarterly contends that the group of premier IS journals needs to be generally recognized as having more than just two members. This article introduces the publication power approach to identifying the premier IS journals, and it does indeed find that there are more than two. A journal's publication power is calculated from the actual publishing behaviors of full-time, tenured IS faculty members at a sizable set of leading research universities. The underlying premise is that these researchers produce excellent work, collectively spanning the IS field's subject matter, and that the greatest concentrations of their collective work appear in highest visibility, most important journals suitable for its subject matter. The new empirically based approach to identifying premier IS journals (and, more broadly, identifying journals that figure most prominently in publishing activity of tenured IS researchers) offers an attractive alternative to promulgations by individuals or cliques (possibly based on outdated tradition or vested interests), to opinion surveys (subjective, possibly ill-informed, vague about rating criteria, and/or biased in various ways), and to citation analyses (which ignore semantics of references and, in the case of ISI impact factors, have additional problems that cast considerable doubt on their meaningfulness within the IS field and its subdisciplines). Results of the publication power approach can be applied and supplemented according to needs of a particular university in setting its evaluation standards for IS tenure, promotion, and merit decisions.

Featured Publication:
Announcing a new IS Journal on the Systems Approach:

International Journal of Information Technologies and the Systems Approach

The International Journal of Information Technologies and the Systems Approach (IJITSA) is an applied and theoretical research, refereed, international journal. It provides coverage of the foundations, challenges, opportunities, problems, trends, and solutions encountered by both scholars and practitioners in the field of information systems (IS) when applying the systems approach. IJITSA emphasizes the systemic worldview of managerial, organizational and engineering interaction facets provided by modern complex information systems and information technologies. The articles published in IJITSA will focus on IS and their interactions with software engineering, systems engineering, complex systems, and philosophy issues for a better understanding and development of the IS discipline.

See Details at: http://www.idea-group.com/ijitsa

ISI Impact Factors: http://portal.isiknowledge.com/portal.cgi?DestApp=JCR&Func=Frame
ALL ISI Journals http://scientific.thomson.com/media/presentrep/acropdf/documentsolution.pdf

Users have four search methods available to them as follows:

Search Options: (All Search Options are Available in the top frame of this site:)

[Keyword Search ] ( search for a keyword or phrase in the title of a publication )

[Venue/Topic Search Form] (Search by Venue and Topic Area)
Note: Venue and Keywords and associations are the section editors best attempt to classify the publications.
Please feel free to contact me with any desired updates or changes.

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[First Letter SubList] (Click on any of the letters in the top frame to see all publications that start with that letter)

Community members are also encouraged to contact the section editor with new publications, or changes they would like to see to any of the existing publications in terms of topic keywords or other information. All the data is now stored in a database and the search results are created on the fly; therefore adding new information or updating existing information is easy and fast.

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The Previous Version of the ISWORLD Journal Pages Hosted by Nik Dalal Can still be found at: IS Journals
Another excellent and useful site Hosted by John Lamp takes an alternative approach: See it at: http://lamp.infosys.deakin.edu.au/journals/index.php

IS Publications Main Page

Section Editor: Nicholas C. Romano, Jr. Management Science and Information Systems Oklahoma State University, Stillwater/Tulsa USA

Section Editor: Nicholas C. Romano, Jr.
Management Science and Information Systems
Oklahoma State University, Stillwater/Tulsa USA