[AISWorld] INFOSEC JOURNAL RANKINGS SURVEY - FINAL CALL - PLEASE HELP

[Dr. Mike Whitman]

Colleagues: 

As a fellow professor with a research interest in information security, I’m sure you are as concerned as we are about identifying and defining quality venues for the publication of papers, articles and research pieces on information security, computer security, digital forensics and software assurance topics. While mainstream information systems and computer science venues do publish in this area, there are several quality journals and magazines dedicated specifically to the field of information security. 

As information security emerges as its own discipline, it becomes critical to identify the best venues and recommend those to fellow faculty members looking for such outlets and recognition for merit, tenure and promotion. This information could be combined with established ratings and rankings of IS and CS journals to complete a faculty member’s portfolio and vitae. 

While a number of research papers have identified and evaluated IS and CS venues (such as AIS’s MIS Journal Rankings at http://ais.affiniscape.com/displaycommon.cfm?an=1&subarticlenbr=432 which includes a study Dr. Whitman did previously on IS journals, which was published in Information Systems Research), we have yet to identify a similar study focused EXCLUSIVELY on information security journals. As such, we have devised a survey of journals and magazines that accept papers from academic authors, and need your assistance in completing it. 

Our survey is located at 

http://coles.qualtrics.com/SE/?SID=SV_cAe0CBWCzoX8INC 

We've also created a Tiny URL version for ease of use: 

http://tinyurl.com/infosecjournals 

Please share this email with any of your colleagues that are actively researching and publishing in information security. If you wish to take this survey, but want to know what journals we are evaluating, you may download our journal listing and URL document from 

http://infosec.kennesaw.edu/InfoSecJournals.pdf 

beforehand to facilitate survey completion. It should only take a few minutes of your time, and the results will help us all. 

Note: If you have previously completed this survey, there is no need to do so again. 
Thank you in advance for your assistance. 

Mike Whitman 
Humayun Zafar Herb Mattord 


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Michael E. Whitman, Ph.D., CISM, CISSP 
Professor of Information Security; 
Director, KSU Center for Information Security Education; & 
Coordinator, BBA- and BS-Information Security & Assurance 
Department of Information Systems 
Michael J. Coles College of Business 
Kennesaw State University - A National Center of Academic Excellence in Information Assurance Education 
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