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<DIV>Shailendra,</DIV>
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<DIV>You make a good point and this leads us back to the issue of journal
editors requesting/requiring citations from their journals in papers being
published. For that discussion I'll point you'all back to the CAIS
discussion in 2010 on this topic!....murray</DIV>
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<DIV>In a message dated 2/8/2012 9:54:44 A.M. Pacific Standard Time,
Shailendra.Palvia@liu.edu writes:</DIV>
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style="BORDER-LEFT: blue 2px solid; PADDING-LEFT: 5px; MARGIN-LEFT: 5px"><FONT
style="BACKGROUND-COLOR: transparent" color=#000000 size=2 face=Arial>Dear
Manuel and all concerned MIS colleagues:<BR><BR>You have articulated some very
good ideas for stimulating more thinking on part of all MIS researchers
regarding contributions of the MIS researchers to the world of academia and
practitioners.<BR>For reasons cited by you, some top notch articles in
journals other than MISQ, JMIS, ISR are not cited enough to make an
impact. <BR><BR>Ph.D. students and all researchers must be guided by
journal editors to refer to all relevant articles on a theme. One
example should illustrate this point. One Ph.D. researcher did a thesis
focusing on IT Enabled Global Sourcing of Services. His/her citations
focused mostly on the top three journals totally ignoring some very high
quality publications in journals like JITCAR, I & M, Decision
Sciences, JGITM and so on. <BR><BR>Sincerely<BR><BR><BR>Dr. Shailendra
Palvia<BR>Professor of MIS, College of Management<BR>C.W. Post Campus, Long
Island University, Brookville, NY
11801.<BR>http://liu.edu/CWPost/Academics/Faculty/P/Shailendra-Palvia.aspx?rn=Faculty&ru=/CWPost/Academics/Faculty.aspx
<BR>Founding Editor, Journal of IT Case and Applications Research (JITCAR),
www.jitacr.org <BR>World Conference Chairperson, Tenth Annual Int'l Smart
Sourcing Conference<BR>Solbridge University, South Korea, June 21-22,
2012. www.outsourceglobal.org <BR>Phone #:
732-983-7034<BR><BR><BR><BR><BR>-----Original Message-----<BR>From:
aisworld-bounces@lists.aisnet.org [mailto:aisworld-bounces@lists.aisnet.org]
On Behalf Of Manuel Mora T.<BR>Sent: Tuesday, February 07, 2012 3:24 PM<BR>To:
aisworld@lists.aisnet.org<BR>Subject: Re: [AISWorld] IS Research Rankings Site
Updated<BR><BR>Dear colleagues in IT discipline:<BR>In other IT related
disciplines (Computer Sciences, Artificial Intelligence, Software Engineering,
and actually Management Science / OR), the most recognized academics are those
that have introduced a core innovation (construct, theory, model, or system)
which is usually used during a long time (1 or several decades). Examples:
Lofti Zadeh (fuzzy logic mechanisms), E-R Model (Peter Chen), Core
Competences (Gary Hamel and CK Prahalad), Soft Systems (Peter Checkland), MIS
concept (Gordon Davis), IT Development Stages (Michael Gibson and Richard
Nolan), EIS and CSFs (John Rockart), GDSS (Paul Gray, George Huber),
5-force model (Michael Porter), BSC (David Norton and Robert Kaplan), Ethernet
protocol (Robert Metcalfe), among dozens of contributions. It is very likely
that they published few papers in top journals but they contributions have
shaped such disciplines (of course, your papers are largely cited). On it, the
research rankings, do really reveal the critical contributions to advance our
IT discipline or have we fostered an academic bureaucratic context? People in
other disciplines are surprised that MIS Quarterly has an impact factor over
5.0 points, which is not natural in other disciplines. MIS Quarterly can be #1
but in all surveys the people usually ranks it by default! Are we really free
academics or we have to follow the modern research IT rules (not from the
70-80s according to my estimation of type of research papers published in
similar 6 journals). In summary, how many core contributions published in the
6 suggested journals have shaped in the last 10 years the IT discipline with
critical research discoveries or inventions? Interesting topics like
virtualization, green IT, ITSM, etc, while are investigated in IT discipline
are not created (published the like original initial ideas) in our journals!
We are not so creative as other Computing and Managerial disciplines are.
Finally, how many patents are linked to our IT discipline from our IT academic
community? Do we need a re-invention of our discipline? I believe does it, but
IT leaders trained with other approach are required. Thanks, Manuel Mora,
EngD.<BR>PS. I believe we have lost the historical memory of IT leaders that
have shaped our IT discipline, and that deserve a special ranking of IT
Academics. The IT research rankings measures other dimensions but not the
overall impact and contribution to our IT
discipline.<BR><BR><BR>----------------------------------------------<BR>Manuel
Mora, EngD.<BR>Full Professor and Researcher "C" Level<BR>Autonomous
University of Aguascalientes<BR>Ave. Universidad 940<BR>Aguascalientes,
Ags.<BR>México
20100<BR>www.uaa.mx<BR>----------------------------------------------<BR><BR><BR>_______________________________________________<BR>AISWorld
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