[AISWorld] Awards announcement: A-JIS - best paper and new award creation - community input required!

[Kai Riemer]

Dear colleagues,

The following is posted on behalf of the journal Editor-in-chief. Please circulate widely.
Make no apologies for cross-posting!

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News from the A-Journal of Information Systems (A-JIS):
1) A-Journal Best Paper Award
2) New Award launch, call for input from our community

Dear colleagues,

the A-Journal of Information Systems (A-JIS), official outlet for A-Journal publications in IS, was successfully launched this time three years ago. Today, the editorial team is proud to announce the recipients of the inaugural A-Journal Best Paper Award. In a rigorously objective and unbiased process the award-winning paper was selected by a machine-learning algorithm trained with IS citation data to select the paper that offers the most likely future citation success for the journal.

The Award goes to:
Norris, Ian; Arnott, Ross (2016) ‘Conceptualising Technology Interaction Metrics (TIM) for the Technology Acceptance Model (TAM): An Australian investigation’, A-Journal of Information Systems (4)1, 19-64.

We CONGRATULATE the authors on this sweet achievement.

Moreover, the journal is planning to sponsor a new annual award for papers published in the entire Information Systems Discipline: The “Annual Award for the most Widely-cited Publication not read by the citing Authors”.

At this stage, we are calling on the discipline for nominations; the award will be issued for the first time next year. We are also kindly asking for feedback on naming the award. Currently under consideration are the following names – further suggestions are welcome:

The Polanyi Award for the most Widely-cited Publication not read by the citing Authors
The Gibson Award for the most Widely-cited Publication not read by the citing Authors
The Heidegger Award for the most Widely-cited Publication not read by the citing Authors

Eligibility: All IS papers published during the year in A-JIS or any other journal or conference or any other outlet in IS, or elsewhere.

Criteria - one or any of the following:
- Paper re-defines the core concepts of the original paper to mean the opposite
- Paper colonises the core tenets of the original paper
- Paper provides otherwise convincing evidence that the original was not read

Papers will be judged by a statistically non-representative sample of IS scholars in a rigorously informal process (or by an algorithm).

The winner will be announced on 1 April 2018 on the publisher’s online platform under www.lirpa.org.

With kindest regards
Professor Adrian Fooley, University of the Gold Coast, Australia (A-JIS, Editor-in-chief)

A-JIS is the official A-Journal in Information Systems. A-JIS gives authors who are published in the journal every right to claim “A-Journal publication success”. As a result, the journal has become one of the most sought after outlets in only a short period of time. Need an A-Journal publication for the next promotion? Intend to apply for a new position, or get your Dean off your back? A-JIS offers the solution. Send us your paper. A-JIS, through its online platform, allows authors to bid for reviewing slots thus providing the means to “jump the queue” to achieve A-Journal publication success quickly. A-JIS is broad in its scope. A-JIS publishes any paper that is broadly located in Information Systems and any adjacent field. More importantly, A-JIS as a contemporary journal takes a strictly instrumental and economical approach to publishing. For detailed step-by-step scripts for how to write great A-Journal papers, please see our website: www.lirpa.org. Following state-of-the-art reviewing procedures. AJIS  has become one of the most selective and sought after journals in the field. This is due in large part to the innovation use of antagonistic AI for reviewing. The algorithms are trained to surpass human ability to find flames and to never agreed, resulting in a market-leading acceptance rate of below 0.5%, accepting only one manuscript in its three-year history. AJIS continues to improve on this success so that rejections can be more efficient and occur prior to review, through employing predictive analytics.

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KAI RIEMER | Dr. rer. pol., Dipl.-Wirt. Inform.
Professor of Information Technology and Organisation
Leader, Digital Disruption Research Group (DDRG)

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