[AISWorld] Most Influential Information Systems Papers

[mmora at securenym.net]

Dear colleagues,
This topic raised by Samir reveals that top senior and emeritus ones have
already identified a closed system at present in the research published
and pre-accepted (with a strong bias on style and topics) in top journals,
focused on most on the reference disciplines than in the several IT
artifacts. But it is a consequence of the arrival to MIS/IT research on
more people with background on social/managerial side rather IT. On the
myth of moving to CSc for trying to publish technological and engineering
alike research, it is also a wrong misconception. IT systems engineering
and management can be pursued with a strong technical side (but top senior
EiCs and ERBs trained on it are required). It happened with systems
engineering discipline. They do not are totally 100% technical people
(others engineering cover it like IE, ME, ChE, EE, etc) but they are
provide an integrative and high-level view of the organization-system
subject of study for designing, implementing and evaluating them. It is
clear that will be impossible to rescue this situation in the near future
but the young people recently gaining their MIS PhDs must know that this
discipline (top journals) are not serving -at present- to have a better
world ! (the ultimately aim of any science). Unfortunately, the ranking
journal system is used by tenures and so on, so we will living in this
closed system.
Manuel Mora
PS The top journals in the 80s published relevant and "normal" research
with a direct contribution to practitioners, without providing advances on
theoretical concepts. The current research is about the "means rather the
ends".


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Manuel Mora, EngD.
Full-time Professor and Researcher Level C
ACM Senior Member / SNI Level I
Department of Information Systems
Autonomous University of Aguascalientes
Ave. Universidad 940
Aguascalientes, AGS
Mexico, 20131
Website: http://x3620a-labdc.uaa.mx:8080/web/drmora
Email: mmora at correo.uaa.mx


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