[AISWorld] Most Influential Information Systems Papers

[Shailendra Palvia]

I agree whole heartedly with Murray.

Dr. Shailendra Palvia
Fulbright-Nehru Senior Scholar for 2016-17
Professor of MIS, College of Management
Long Island University Post, Brookville, NY 11801.
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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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