[AISWorld] IS Research Rankings Site Updated (plausible actions)

[Manuel Mora T.]

Dear colleagues in AIS:

I have reported some complaints about the status of our IT discipline
regarding to the non-natural power bias concentrated in 6 journals and
about 50 top senior researchers, that with particular exceptions is not
clear their core contributions (besides to publish in such journals). I am
sure they exist but they should be considered with more value than the
publication in some journals. Thus, I consider positive to propose at
least some feasible actions as IT community:

#1 AIS website should have a section on [History of IT Contributions]
(example, the coining of the concept MIS (Professor Gordon Davis?, 1966,
1968?)

#2 AIS website should have a section on [Top IT Contributors] (where be
reported their core contribution(s). It can be grouped by eras: pre-MIS
era, MIS era (60s-70s), IT Networking era (80-90s), Internet era (2000 at
present).  I am sure of most of the listed top seniors in rankings must
appear but now the Seniority level and acceptance by IT community (new
PhDs and older ones) should be by their real contributions for the
discipline. A paper does not matter but their content (and if it is really
worthy then it will be deployed).

#3 To establish a new ranking of journals (best 25 journals) where it be
conducted an updated and non biased survey, and where can be showed that
the statistical and practical difference between them really does not
exist (or using qualitative evaluations as finally papers are accepted in
any journal!). None outside of our discipline can believe that some
journals have impact factors over 4 and 5 points ! and other excellent
journals be ranked by it and other biased metrics as very distant.


Well, I hope these 3 emails can be useful for avoiding the real divorce
between the IT top research and PhD programs and IT reality, and that we
respect to our older IT researchers by their contributions (even it were
published in a not ranked journal!).

Sincerely,
Manuel Mora, EngD
PS. From 1984 at present I have taught very IT technical and
administrative IT courses for BSc and MSc programs. I believe I know this
discipline.