[AISWorld] Addressing the Financial Times 45 Journal List Revision

[Dennis, Alan R.]

We just finished examining the results of the AIS Senior Scholars Journal Basket survey.  We got 975 responses. MISQ and ISR were one and two.  JAIS was three and JMIS was four, although there was no significant difference between JAIS and JMIS. 

So I strongly recommend MISQ, ISR, JAIS, JMIS, and a journal of your choice.

Alan

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IS faculty,

Financial Times is adjusting their list of top 45 business journals. Deans across the globe are being surveyed for journals that should be on the list. IS faculty across the world are making suggestions to their deans about the proper contents of the list.


How many IS journals should be on the list? The current list contains 2 (MISQ and ISR) of the 45, or 4.4%. My recent publication with Bruce Lewis on business journal fairness addresses this issue. According to AACSB faculty data, 9.45% of business faculty are in the IS discipline. This translates to 4.25 (9.45% X 45) journal slots for the IS discipline.


Because FT45 is largely a public relations venue and not scientific, the IS discipline should respond accordingly. We should certainly have at least 4 on the list, but that assumes it is a scientific list. I think we should ask for 5 for fear of selling ourselves short.


Bruce and I have published two rankings (one IS and the other all business) that summarize samples of institutional lists (those used in "practice"). We found strong evidence that our field views JMIS to be the clear third most esteemed journal in our field.


At a minimum, I think the vast majority would agree that MISQ, ISR and JMIS should be in the top three. However, only submitting 3 (or 4) to our deans, may not serve our field well. I suspect there would be more argument about #4 and #5. It would help if members of our research community could come to an agreement and pose this top 5 to our deans.


I wonder if our group could come to an agreement in such a short time, and we could make recommendations to our deans in a uniform way.


Gary


Reference:

Templeton, G.F. & Lewis, B.R., 2015. "Fairness in the Institutional Valuation of Business Journals," MIS Quarterly, Vol. 39, No. 3, pp. 523-539.
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