[AISWorld] Plagiarism and "Self-Plagiarism"

[Nava Pliskin]

One piece of evidence to support the message below, which my graduate students are exposed to as an example of a great evolution from two presentations at a top conference (ICIS) to one paper at a top journal JAIS) is:

ICIS 2003: Guy Gable, Darshana Sedera, and Taizan Chan, ENTERPRISE SYSTEMS SUCCESS: A MEASUREMENT MODEL

ICIS 2004: Darshana Sedera and Guy Gable, A FACTOR AND STRUCTURAL EQUATION ANALYSIS OF THE ENTERPRISE SYSTEMS SUCCESS MEASUREMENT MODEL

JAIS 2008:  Guy Gable, Darshana Sedera, and Taizan Chan, Re-conceptualizing Information System Success: The IS-Impact Measurement Model
 
----- Original Message -----
From: "Dennis, Alan R." <ardennis at indiana.edu>
Date: Tuesday, December 13, 2011 21:03
Subject: Re: [AISWorld] Plagiarism and "Self-Plagiarism"
To: "'Galletta, Dennis'" <galletta at katz.pitt.edu>, Steven Alter <alter at usfca.edu>, "aisworld at lists.aisnet.org" <aisworld at lists.aisnet.org>

> Let me commend Steve and Dennis for good points, and second them.
> 
> 
> 1.       Self-plagiarism should be 
> dropped from our vocabulary.
> 
> 2.       We should ensure there is 
> no double publication of the same manuscript, but we should 
> *encourage* journal publication of conference papers with 
> disclosure of their provenance.  To go the way of 
> management and only publish weaker papers or just abstracts at 
> conferences seems a step backwards in this era of rapid 
> knowledge creation.
> 
> 3.       We should *encourage* the 
> re-use portions of text from one's own manuscripts in other 
> manuscripts for the same reasons we encourage systems developers 
> to re-use portions of code from one program in another: object 
> reuse is more efficient and reliable than writing new material, 
> and it enables authors to spend time on higher-value activities 
> than writing prose.
> 
> 
> Alan
> 
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> Alan Dennis
> 
> Professor and John T. Chambers Chair of Internet Systems
> 
> Co-Director, Rob Kling Center for Social Informatics
> 
> Co-Founder and SVP for Research, Courseload Inc.
> 
> Publisher, MIS Quarterly Executive
> 
> Kelley School of Business, Indiana University
> 
> www.kelley.iu.edu/ardennis<http://www.kelley.iu.edu/ardennis>
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> From: aisworld-bounces at lists.aisnet.org [mailto:aisworld-
> bounces at lists.aisnet.org] On Behalf Of Galletta, Dennis
> Sent: Monday, December 12, 2011 10:23 PM
> To: Steven Alter; aisworld at lists.aisnet.org
> Subject: Re: [AISWorld] Plagiarism and "Self-Plagiarism"
> 
> Steve raised many good points. However, unlike Steve, I don't 
> care what we settle on for a name; I am most concerned with 
> policy. I hope we can settle on a reasonable policy, or 
> conferences will fail to attract the best work of authors. If 
> they do, however, continue to attract good work, then journals 
> will have fewer papers submitted because of prohibitions we are 
> discussing.
> These policies are usually aimed at those "evildoers" who are 
> trying to recycle their own work with little-to-no additional 
> effort. However, let's focus for at least a few moments on what 
> many of us have been taught as mainstream: those of us wishing 
> to present at a conference first to gather comments for eventual 
> journal publication. Editors of elite MIS journals have even 
> expressed the desire to have submissions that are more "mature;" 
> presentations at conferences were evidence of this maturity. 
> Claudia raised this first and I've been waiting in vain to hear 
> a "good news" answer to her question.
> 
> Further, in computer science, as Claudia stated, conference 
> publications are counted as the most valuable publications. At 
> my school, conference papers do not count at all. So if the 
> conference is essentially going to become a dead end for many 
> papers, what is the motivation for any of us to ever submit to 
> another conference?
> 
> Let's be practical about this: Many of us do empirical work, 
> presenting and testing research models. If our model and sample 
> are reasonable, do we need to change them by 30% just to change 
> them? Note that we also should be economical regarding 
> participant time. Do we really need to gather 30% more data just 
> to make a greater proportion of the paper unique or to make it 
> sound 30% different?
> 
> We just had a couple hundred authors present papers at ICIS last 
> week with only 5 minutes for questions and answers given space 
> limitations at the convention center. Based on only a small 
> number of comments, it will be difficult for many authors to 
> generate 30% differentiation for submission to journals. In a 
> case of my own, we received exactly two comments and one was 
> just a question for clarification. So how are we supposed to 
> come up with 30% new content under policy that did not exist 
> before the conference?
> 
> So either we need to recognize conference publications or allow 
> very similar versions of previously-accepted conference papers 
> to be submitted to journals. I'm not arguing that we should have 
> it both ways, but likewise, we should at least have it ONE way. 
> Interestingly, those in HCI in the computer science/psychology 
> area DO have it both ways-they have an elite publication but can 
> still publish a full-length version in a journal. I'm speaking 
> of the ACM SIG-CHI Conference, a top outlet for papers in 
> Computer-Human Interaction, where the papers are commonly six-
> pagers and then published in full-length later in a top journal 
> such as HCI or IJHCS.
> 
> The only way I can think of to resolve this is to return to the 
> practice of only publishing abstracts or very short versions of 
> ICIS papers. This will enable our conferences and journals to 
> survive and provide a viable strategy for non-evildoers in the 
> mainstream to do one or more local presentations then go to a 
> conference, then move to journal submission.
> 
> It is likely that I speak for us all: I do not want to spend 
> valuable time traveling to expensive conferences only to see 
> second-rate presentations while authors save their best work for 
> journal submission.
> 
> DG
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> bounces at lists.aisnet.org] On Behalf Of Steven Alter
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