[AISWorld] FW: Significance of JMIS joining the FT list

[Jim Lackritz]

Dennis-

As a crusty old (retired) academic (statistician) who doesn't give a bleep
anymore, let me suggest to Dr. Templeton that his post is an insult to any
academic who understands basic statistics. If his numbers are correct, 4.7
is the expected value with a standard deviation of sqrt(50*.0945*.9055) =
2.07. Therefore, anything within +/- 2 sd would be statistically within
reason, which would be from 1-8 journals on the list. Therefore, your
current membership of 3 journals on the list is well within expectations,
even if not satisfactory to your shooting to be "average." Hell, why don't
you shoot for 8? I would think a PhD MIS faculty member would know better,
especially since we teach statistics within the discipline and such
respected journals usually require more than a cursory approach to data
evaluation.

Best wishes.

Jim Lackritz
Emeritus Professor of MIS
San Diego State University
San Diego, CA 92182-8234

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Subject: [AISWorld] Significance of JMIS joining the FT list

As a member of the JMIS editorial board as well as an author, too, I wanted
to be very cautious about congratulating JMIS in my previous message so that
it wasn't seen as self-serving. But as I re-read my note after receiving a
private follow-up from an acquaintance of mine from the other side of the
world, I didn't think my original message was very fair to the journal and
didn't point out the large positive impact on the field.

Inclusion of JMIS on the Financial Times list is as much a milestone for the
field as it is for JMIS. Many speculated in some recent chatter on AISWorld
that perhaps the Financial Times was not taking our field seriously, so this
appears to help ease that worry. It perhaps paves the way for further
expansion of the list in the future.

Expanding our FT footprint by 50% (from two to three MIS-exclusive journals
on the list) is a significant step forward for the field, and we are getting
closer to being represented in proportion to other fields. My simple-minded
calculation based on the previous message from Gary Templeton is that our
new target would now be 4.7 journals - see the postscript below).

Whatever your opinion of the FT50, lists like the FT50 are extremely
influential. Some schools adopt these lists automatically to define their "A
list" so career decisions can hang in the balance. The addition of JMIS will
help many authors receive the recognition they deserve from those papers.
There is a small downside to authors, though: submissions will likely
increase, making for greater competition to publish in JMIS! The new happy
problem will be the needed expansion of the editorial board to handle that
additional workload. Also, the name of the journal will not need to be
modified if it finds the need to expand and publish monthly!

In any event, JMIS should have been on the list twenty years ago, mainly
because progress is very slow in academia. Congratulations to Vladimir and
the others at JMIS! I'm predicting that some champagne corks will pop loudly
enough to be heard at the Financial Times offices!

Sincerely,
Dennis Galletta

PS

Explaining our new goal of 4.7 journals:

Note the quote from Gary Templeton's AISWorld posting six days ago:


"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."



If we now use a base of 50, our "share" of the journals in the new FT50 list
should be 4.7 (9.45% x 50).



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