[AISWorld] Most Influential Information Systems Papers

[MurphJen at aol.com]

very good suggestion but let me make a slight tweak, don't worry about what 
 journal the paper is in.  List highly influential and cited papers  
regardless of the journal.  We have focused too long on the basket of 8  being the 
epitome of MIS research, the basket isn't.  There are over 500  MIS 
journals and I know that great, influential, and well cited papers come from  
journals other than the basket of 8.  Why don't we celebrate them  all?....murray 
jennex, San Diego State University
 
 
In a message dated 7/11/2016 9:52:15 A.M. Pacific Daylight Time,  
profsamir1 at gmail.com writes:

Hello  All,

In our IS community we periodically tend to talk about elite  journals by
name (such as MISQ, ISR, JMIA or JAIS etc) and get bogged down  by which
journal gets into FT 45 or not. Very seldom do we take the time to  actually
discuss what papers/content published in these journals actually  have an
influence. When I talk about influence, I mean not only high  citations
(researchers are referring the work) but also real-world impact  which is
something that was actually built, implemented and even  commercialized for
societal benefit. While we tend to have high citation  papers in our field
but IS suffers in the latter. For example I am aware of  highly influential
work by Jay Nunamaker on GDSS which actually saw the  light of day as real
people used those group systems.

I will admit  that I am a computer scientist who accidentally became an IS
professor. But  honestly I see our field as obsessed about journal prestige
but very little  attention is paid to what work has actually benefitted
mankind.

I  did a quick search about influential papers in CS and found some  highly
interesting work cited.

1.Claude Shannon's "A Mathematical  Theory of Communication" has over 63,000
citation and is the basis of all  communication systems in use today.

2. S Brin, L Page. The Anatomy of a  Large-Scale Hypertextual Web Search
Engine  <http://citeseer.ist.psu.edu/viewdoc/summary?cid=6538>. in Proc.  of
7th International WWW Conference, 1998
Has over 3623 citations and is  of course the basis of Google search engine
that has changed the world  forever.

3. R Rivest, A Shamir, L Adleman. A Method for Obtaining  Digital Signatures
and Public-Key  Cryptosystems
<http://citeseer.ist.psu.edu/viewdoc/summary?cid=10320>.  Communications of
the ACM, 1978
Has over 3175 citations and is the  foundation RSA technology which is now
used extensively in S/MIME, and TLS  and other network security protocols.

These are a few sample examples.  There are many others..

So here is what I propose. Please send me a  cited paper and tell me why you
feel the paper is infuential for IS  community. I will start a Wikipedia
page and add those influential papers  to the site so that future IS
researchers have a must read set of  articles.
Cheers,
Samir

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