[AISWorld] Most Influential Information Systems Papers

Sun Jul 17 09:08:24 EDT 2016

Hi Michael

Of course you are right in your plea, but to an extent we have created a barrier by dressing up our concepts in a language that is obscure to all but the dedicated follower of some theoretical thread.

But my main concern is that mentioned by others - the relative narrowness of our research priorities - reflected in what our IS centred textbooks don't cover.

Best wishes
Frank
PS  I may be speaking out of turn because I am getting further and further out of the loop.

-----Original Message-----
From: Michael Myers [mailto:m.myers at auckland.ac.nz] 
Sent: 17 July 2016 13:54
To: Land,F
Cc: Niels Bjørn-Andersen; Samir Chatterjee; ISWorld
Subject: Re: [AISWorld] Most Influential Information Systems Papers

Hi Frank

I agree with you, thanks for clarifying. But then does that indicate, not a problem with our research language, but a problem with the poor and inadequate training of IS practitioners? GPs can read scientific articles and have to stay up to date. There is no such professional requirement in our field.

Best wishes

Michael

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> On 17/07/2016, at 6:56 PM, Land,F <F.Land at lse.ac.uk> wrote:
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> Michael
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> I think you must have misunderstood one of my comment.  I would expect a GP to understand an article published in, say,  Lancet, even if the language used is not understood by a patient.  But does the typical IS practitioner understand or get value out of too many of our IS papers?
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> Perhaps we should ask them?
> Frank Land
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> -----Original Message-----
> From: Michael Myers [mailto:m.myers at auckland.ac.nz] 
> Sent: 17 July 2016 02:35
> To: Land,F; 'Niels Bjørn-Andersen'; Samir Chatterjee; ISWorld
> Subject: Re: [AISWorld] Most Influential Information Systems Papers
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> Hi everyone
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> I don't disagree that our research could be more relevant than it is now, but I think some balance should be brought back to the discussion. Just two points:
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> 1. The curriculum and the textbooks that we use to teach our students are based on IS research. Almost all of our IS students that graduate are getting jobs these days, in fact we can't produce enough here in New Zealand. Does that indicate that our research is irrelevant to industry and that we are not providing value to the taxpayer? I don't think so.
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> 2. Most patients do not understand the language of medical research. Does that mean that medical research has no value ? Of course not! I don't think we should expect practitioners and the general public - most of whom have not had any research training - to understand the language of research.
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> I still agree that we could be more relevant than we are now, but let's keep things in perspective :)
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> Best wishes
> 
> Michael
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> From: AISWorld <aisworld-bounces at lists.aisnet.org> on behalf of Land,F <F.Land at lse.ac.uk>
> Sent: Saturday, 16 July 2016 4:06 a.m.
> To: 'Niels Bjørn-Andersen'; Samir       Chatterjee; ISWorld
> Subject: [FORGED] Re: [AISWorld] Most Influential Information Systems Papers
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> Dear Samir
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> Some of us have been questioning the value of IS research for some time.  It gets even worse: the language we use, even for potentially valuable research, is foreign to most practitioners.
> Can the younger generation save IS?
> Frank Land
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> -----Original Message-----
> From: AISWorld [mailto:aisworld-bounces at lists.aisnet.org] On Behalf Of Niels Bjørn-Andersen
> Sent: 11 July 2016 20:08
> To: Samir Chatterjee; ISWorld
> Subject: Re: [AISWorld] Most Influential Information Systems Papers
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> Dear Samir,
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> I share your concern about the real impact of our IS research
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> Too much is only published for citations by our mutual admiration club, and we would all have a very hard time to argue why taxpayers or students should spend money on that. Why should they feed us, if we don't provide value?
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> Look to the UK Research Assessment, where 20% is impact on society or real organizations in 2014. I am prepared to bet my pension that this figure will increase in UK, and that it will come to other countries. And how many of us have something to show for that?
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> I think it is a brilliant idea to post 'success stories' on a web-page - at least as inspiration for the rest of us.
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> Best
> 
> Niels
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> -----Original Message-----
> From: AISWorld [mailto:aisworld-bounces at lists.aisnet.org] On Behalf Of Samir Chatterjee
> Sent: 10. juli 2016 21:08
> To: ISWorld <AISWorld at lists.aisnet.org>
> Subject: [AISWorld] Most Influential Information Systems Papers
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> 
> Hello All,
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> 
> 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.
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> 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.
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> I did a quick search about influential papers in CS and found some highly interesting work cited.
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> 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.
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> 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.
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> 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.
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> These are a few sample examples. There are many others..
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> 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.
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> Cheers,
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> Samir
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