[AISWorld] Most Influential Information Systems Papers
John Lamp
john.lamp at deakin.edu.au
Mon Jul 11 22:51:18 EDT 2016
Just while we are discussing this ...
Thomson Reuters has sold its IP, including the Journal Impact Factor, to a private equity firm. It's hard not to conclude that there is now some urgency to move away from the IF as a measure of impact in scholarship to something that academia has control over.
http://www.marketwatch.com/story/thomson-reuters-announces-definitive-agreement-to-sell-its-intellectual-property-science-business-to-onex-and-baring-asia-for-355-billion-2016-07-11?siteid=nbsh
Cheers
John
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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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