[AISWorld] Influential IS Papers Discourse - Part 3 Nominate papers

Dennis, Alan R. ardennis at indiana.edu
Wed Aug 3 07:12:28 EDT 2016


I agree that media coverage is an indication that the research has reached the common masses, but I don't think it means it is important.  It means it has entertainment value. A few of my articles have gotten media coverage over the years but nothing comes close to 200+ Web, print, radio and TV stories on the Computers and Human Behavior article that Taylor Wells and I published that looked at email and voicemail for romantic communication. Interesting... yes.  Important ... not so much.

Alan

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my only comment on media coverage is that it can be biased by a good PR person at the university, by that I mean that a good PR person can push out media releases and such that will get a person interviewed.  As an example we have a good a PR person and I typically do a couple of interviews a month on  my research or on topics of interest.  A little side note is that I did over 100 interviews during the Fukushima nuclear disaster, none tied to my research but all based on my knowledge.  I don't count that.  On the  other hand a student and I did a paper on how to identify victims of human sex trafficking using online advertising and have been interview a few times on it,  this would count but I'm not sure it reflects influence but rather an interest  in the topic.  This is very true for IS security researchers, we have the  most interesting research for media coverage....murray jennex
 
 
In a message dated 8/2/2016 10:52:33 A.M. Pacific Daylight Time, profsamir1 at gmail.com writes:

Dear  Dennis, Bill & Manual,

I agree with Dennis that media coverage is a  testimony that the work/research has permeated to the common masses, hence  it  is probably valuable to society.

Manual, I hear what you  say however engineering and computer science are very well established  disciplines. When we started the discourse on Design Science Research, we  wanted to make sure that we as IS community can distinguish what we do from  pure CS or Engineering. After all the nexus of DSR comes from Herb Simon's  seminal work, emphasizing design. It is obvious that certain engineering  theory or hard core technical CS work will not be referenced in DSR  specially in the IS context. We as a community should promote problem  solving but the source of our problems comes from the intersection of  technology, people and organization. That's what distinguishes us. In fact  I strongly suggest all senior editors in IS to ask for "what problem did  you solve?" in their journal submissions. This can strengthen our field and  showing evidence of value becomes easier. DSR is meant to do that as a  research method.

Bill, you have a point. I have asked for papers since  we know that journal and conference articles are peer reviewed. But you can  also propose a book that you think has had influence. There are many other  artifacts that have influence but without "peer" review it is difficult to  weed out which is good and which is not. For example, someone may write a  blog or a newspaper column that actually may be read by more IS folks than  some journal papers.
But one could argue that this is his/her opinion. We  live and work in a system of "peer review". So as long as your work or  artifact has been evaluated by others, please go ahead and submit your  nomination.

Sincerely
Samir


On Mon, Aug 1, 2016 at 6:18  PM, Galletta, Dennis <galletta at katz.pitt.edu>
wrote:

> This  is quite interesting. At the risk of beating this to death, as 
> some  academics do, I think one additional measure should be added: 
> Some
measure
> of media coverage. If the media cares about it, then it seems  to add 
> to
the
> evidence of importance. It could work into your last two  measures in 
> some way.
>
> I have heard some of Erik  Brynjolffsson's work described on NPR. I
thought
> of this mainly  because of a few very short news articles from two or
three
> of my  experiments in the past, but just look at the scale of Erik's  
> coverage! I did a couple of radio interviews on some local stations  
> and some excerpts related to a story of this new thing called the Web  
> on All Things Considered on NPR back in 1997 or 1998, and even that  
> was pretty exciting. I have also seen news reports that relate to work  
> by Carol Saunders as well. I'm sure many other IS professors have been  
> in the
news,
> too.
>
> Maybe longer into the future, we  should consider measures of popular
media
> like books and movies. For  instance, A Beautiful Mind, a movie that 
> was based on Nash (2001) and,  of course, recently the Theory of 
> Everything (Hawking). Maybe we will  see a movie about UTAUT someday, 
> however, having four authors make it  more difficult!
>
> DG
>
>
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> From: AISWorld  [mailto:aisworld-bounces at lists.aisnet.org] On Behalf 
> Of  mmora at securenym.net
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> To:  Samir Chatterjee <profsamir1 at gmail.com>
> Cc: ISWorld  <aisworld at lists.aisnet.org>
> Subject: Re: [AISWorld] Influential  IS Papers Discourse - Part 3 
> Nominate papers
>
> Well, an  additional evidence on strong bias on our disclipine, 
> despite
the
> good  wishes, on design research stream: axiomatic design theory (Suh,  
> 1990), from MIT, widely used in several engineering fields, including  
> software engineering, has been ignored in MIS. This is a problem. Bias
is  a
> strong dominant force in our discipline. This book (Suh, 1990)  
> qualifies totally the asked metrics but it has been missed in Design  
> Research in
MIS.
> Manuel Mora / UAA, Mexico
>
> On Thu,  July 28, 2016 1:23 pm, Samir Chatterjee wrote:
> > Dear  Colleagues,
> >
> >
> > A small ad hoc panel  comprising of IS scholars from all continents 
> > have come together  to further this important discussion about 
> > influence of IS  research. Together we have come up with a way to 
> > value the impact  or influence. The attached PDF file shows the 
> > metric but I am  also providing  it below.
> >
> > We encourage all of  you to nominate papers that you think has had 
> > tremendous impact  or influence to field and society. In order to 
> > manage this  process and also in lieu of the time and effort that 
> > might be  required to handle this nomination, please adhere to the 
> > following
>  rule:
> >
> > 1. Send us a soft copy of the paper (PDF  preferred).
> > 2. Fill up the influence metric table as  shown.
> > 3. You can self nominate your own paper(s) but no one  author can 
> > nominate more than 5 of his/her own paper. 4. You must  write a 100 
> > word explanation of why this paper that you nominated  is worthy of
> consideration.
> >
> > Academic  Metrics
> >
> >
> > Number of Citations
>  >
> >
> > 1 (1-100); 2 (100 – 1000); 3 (1000+)
>  >
> >
> > Number of Years since publication
>  >
> >
> >
> >
> > Perceived quality of  the journal/conference
> >
> >
> > 1 (low)’ 2  (medium); 3 (high)
> >
> >
> > External grants  funding the research
> >
> >
> > NSF or NIH or  DARPA or EU or other private
> >
> >
> > Other  disciplines using the idea in the research
> >
> >
>  > Yes (1); No (0)
> >
> >
> >
>  >
> >
> >
> > Industry/Practice Metrics
>  >
> >
> > Patents issued or filed
> >
>  >
> > Yes (1); No (0)
> >
> >
> >  Actual intervention in field or site (Action Research or Design
> >  research)
> >
> >
> > Yes (1); No (0)
>  >
> >
> > Commercialization of idea into  product/service
> >
> >
> > Yes (1); No (0)
>  >
> >
> > Startups created based on the idea
>  >
> >
> > Yes (1); No (0)
> >
>  >
> >
> >
> >
> >
> >  Influence on Society (qualitative or subjective data)
> >
>  >
> > Benefit of research to scientific community
>  >
> >
> > 1 (low); 2 (medium); 3 (high)
>  >
> >
> > Benefit of research to society at large
>  >
> >
> > 1 (low); 2 (medium); 3 (high)
>  >
> >
> >
> >
> > 100 word explanation  of why this paper is worthy of consideration
> >
> >
>  >
> >
> >
> >
> >
> >
>  >
> >
> >
> >
> >
> >
>  > The panel consist of Prof. Robert M Davison, Prof. Murray Jennex,
Prof.
> > Niels
> > Bjørn-Andersen, Prof. Steven B Sawyer,  Prof. Juhani Iivari and Prof.
> > Samir
> >  Chatterjee.
> >
> >
> > Sincerely,
> >  Samir
> > --
> > Dr. Samir Chatterjee
> >  Professor
> > School of Information Systems & Technology  Claremont Graduate 
> > University
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