[AISWorld] IS Research Rankings Site Updated

[MurphJen at aol.com]

Shailendra,
 
You make a good point and this leads us back to the issue of journal  
editors requesting/requiring citations from their journals in papers being  
published.  For that discussion I'll point you'all back to the CAIS  discussion 
in 2010 on this topic!....murray
 
 
In a message dated 2/8/2012 9:54:44 A.M. Pacific Standard Time,  
Shailendra.Palvia at liu.edu writes:

Dear  Manuel and all concerned MIS colleagues:

You have articulated some very  good ideas for stimulating more thinking on 
part of all MIS researchers  regarding contributions of the MIS researchers 
to the world of academia and  practitioners.
For reasons cited by you, some top notch articles in  journals other than 
MISQ, JMIS, ISR are not cited enough to make an  impact.  

Ph.D. students and all researchers must be guided by  journal editors to 
refer to all relevant articles on a theme.  One  example should illustrate 
this point.  One Ph.D. researcher did a thesis  focusing on IT Enabled Global 
Sourcing of Services.  His/her citations  focused mostly on the top three 
journals totally ignoring some very high  quality publications in journals like 
JITCAR, I & M, Decision  Sciences,  JGITM and so on. 

Sincerely


Dr. Shailendra  Palvia
Professor of MIS, College of Management
C.W. Post Campus, Long  Island University, Brookville, NY  11801.
http://liu.edu/CWPost/Academics/Faculty/P/Shailendra-Palvia.aspx?rn=Faculty&
ru=/CWPost/Academics/Faculty.aspx  
Founding Editor, Journal of IT Case and Applications Research (JITCAR),  
www.jitacr.org 
World Conference Chairperson, Tenth Annual Int'l Smart  Sourcing Conference
Solbridge University, South Korea, June 21-22,  2012.  
www.outsourceglobal.org 
Phone #:  732-983-7034




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Sent: Tuesday, February 07, 2012 3:24 PM
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Subject: Re: [AISWorld] IS Research Rankings Site  Updated

Dear colleagues in IT discipline:
In other IT related  disciplines (Computer Sciences, Artificial 
Intelligence, Software Engineering,  and actually Management Science / OR), the most 
recognized academics are those  that have introduced a core innovation 
(construct, theory, model, or system)  which is usually used during a long time (1 
or several decades). Examples:  Lofti Zadeh (fuzzy logic mechanisms), E-R 
Model (Peter Chen),  Core  Competences (Gary Hamel and CK Prahalad), Soft 
Systems (Peter Checkland), MIS  concept (Gordon Davis), IT Development Stages 
(Michael Gibson and Richard  Nolan), EIS and CSFs (John  Rockart), GDSS (Paul 
Gray, George Huber),  5-force model (Michael Porter), BSC (David Norton and 
Robert Kaplan), Ethernet  protocol (Robert Metcalfe), among dozens of 
contributions. It is very likely  that they published few papers in top journals 
but they contributions have  shaped such disciplines (of course, your papers 
are largely cited). On it, the  research rankings, do really reveal the 
critical contributions to advance our  IT discipline or have we fostered an 
academic bureaucratic context? People in  other disciplines are surprised that 
MIS Quarterly has an impact factor over  5.0 points, which is not natural in 
other disciplines. MIS Quarterly can be #1  but in all surveys the people 
usually ranks it by default! Are we really free  academics or we have to 
follow the modern research IT rules (not from the  70-80s according to my 
estimation of type of research papers published in  similar 6 journals). In 
summary, how many core contributions published in the  6 suggested journals have 
shaped in the last 10 years the IT discipline with  critical research 
discoveries or inventions? Interesting topics like  virtualization, green IT, ITSM, 
etc, while are investigated in IT discipline  are not created (published the 
like original initial ideas) in our journals!  We are not so creative as 
other Computing and Managerial disciplines are.  Finally, how many patents are 
linked to our IT discipline from our IT academic  community? Do we need a 
re-invention of our discipline? I believe does it, but  IT leaders trained 
with other approach are required. Thanks, Manuel Mora,  EngD.
PS. I believe we have lost the historical memory of IT leaders that  have 
shaped our IT discipline, and that deserve a special ranking of IT  
Academics. The IT research rankings measures other dimensions but not the  overall 
impact and contribution to our IT  discipline.


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Manuel  Mora, EngD.
Full Professor and Researcher "C" Level
Autonomous  University of Aguascalientes
Ave. Universidad 940
Aguascalientes,  Ags.
México  20100
www.uaa.mx
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