[AISWorld] IS Research Rankings Site Updated

[Shailendra Palvia]

Dear Manuel and all concerned MIS colleagues:

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.
For reasons cited by you, some top notch articles in journals other than MISQ, JMIS, ISR are not cited enough to make an impact.  

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. 

Sincerely


Dr. Shailendra Palvia
Professor of MIS, College of Management
C.W. Post Campus, Long Island University, Brookville, NY 11801.
http://liu.edu/CWPost/Academics/Faculty/P/Shailendra-Palvia.aspx?rn=Faculty&ru=/CWPost/Academics/Faculty.aspx 
Founding Editor, Journal of IT Case and Applications Research (JITCAR), www.jitacr.org 
World Conference Chairperson, Tenth Annual Int'l Smart Sourcing Conference
Solbridge University, South Korea, June 21-22, 2012.  www.outsourceglobal.org 
Phone #: 732-983-7034




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From: aisworld-bounces at lists.aisnet.org [mailto:aisworld-bounces at lists.aisnet.org] On Behalf Of Manuel Mora T.
Sent: Tuesday, February 07, 2012 3:24 PM
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Subject: Re: [AISWorld] IS Research Rankings Site Updated

Dear colleagues in IT discipline:
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.
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.


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Manuel Mora, EngD.
Full Professor and Researcher "C" Level
Autonomous University of Aguascalientes
Ave. Universidad 940
Aguascalientes, Ags.
México 20100
www.uaa.mx
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