[AISWorld] Can you first have influence then write the paper - Well Presi...

[mmora at securenym.net]

Colleagues interested in cleaning our current MIS research field:

I agree with these flow of ideas. It is a natural decision-making bias to
select high-quality papers from well-known authors than high-quality
papers from unknown people. It reinforces the status quo of the journal
and of the publishing system. On having a fair process, senior people here
in this AIS list, know that it is not the reality. Best argument: none
scientific instrument for measuring the quality of a paper is utilized
usually for journals. We asked valid and reliable instruments for any
construct in any research paper, but for reviewing papers there is a lot
of discretionary effect. EiC and AE identify it when a paper receives
simultaneously a favor and against to reviews from senior reviewers. Of
course, we will not change this situation but these emails can be useful
to create and initial awareness on this critical problem in MIS research
and for let it knowing to young researchers and new PhD graduate some
concerns of our discipline, besides the relevance problem! Manuel

PS Research on decision-making processes has a vast number of JCRs papers
on biases problems, so it is a natural situation lived everyday!

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Full Professor and Researcher Level C
ACM Senior Member / SNI Level I
Department of Information Systems
Autonomous University of Aguascalientes
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Mexico, 20131
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On Sun, August 7, 2016 2:35 am, MurphJen at aol.com wrote:
> we may have that happening anyway.  I've noticed that many articles  are
> now having 4 or 5 authors (especially those in top journals) with the 4th
> or 5th author being a senior or respected scholar.  I wonder if we have
> some halo effect on these articles with so many authors?  I understand
> double blind review means that reviewers don't know who wrote the article,
> but the EiCs  do and being human is it only natural to give a little more
> benefit of the doubt  to an article that has a highly respected author?  I
> am not saying that  these are undeserving articles, I believe they deserve
> to be published, just  wondering if its still a level playing field when
> deciding on articles from a  new academic, perhaps doing a single authored
> paper, and an article from a team  that includes a highly respected
> researcher....murray
>
>
> In a message dated 8/5/2016 10:52:09 A.M. Pacific Daylight Time,
> profsamir1 at gmail.com writes:
>
> Colleagues,
>
>
> In the light of our current discussions on  influence and impact, I can't
>  help but be proud of President Obama. He is  the first sitting President
> to publish a peer reviewed paper and that too  in JAMA (Journal of
> American
> Medical  Association).
>
>
> http://jama.jamanetwork.com/article.aspx?articleid=2533698
>
>
> May  be he is giving us all a hint. Do the work first and then write
> about it  later! Cheers
> Samir
>
>
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