[AISWorld] Addressing the Financial Times 45 Journal List Revision

[Prashant Palvia]

I would recommend Information & Management as the fifth journal in the top
five basket.  It is one of the longest running journals in IS and has
received high ratings in many previous surveys.



*Prashant Palvia, Ph.D., Joe Rosenthal Excellence ProfessorBryan School of
Business and EconomicsThe University of North Carolina at Greensboro *

On Tue, Jun 7, 2016 at 8:28 PM, Aron Lindberg <alindber at stevens.edu> wrote:

> Hi All,
>
> Is there any information available on what the contents of the survey are?
> How will the Dean's prioritize the journals? Can they leave free-form text
> comments?
>
> If we can provide a set of "talking points" to our Deans, we may be able
> to have a stronger impact on this process.
>
> Best,
> Aron
>
> ________________________________________
> From: AISWorld <aisworld-bounces at lists.aisnet.org> on behalf of Dennis,
> Alan R. <ardennis at indiana.edu>
> Sent: Tuesday, June 7, 2016 8:17 PM
> To: 'Templeton, Gary'; aisworld at lists.aisnet.org
> Subject: Re: [AISWorld] Addressing the Financial Times 45 Journal List
> Revision
>
> We just finished examining the results of the AIS Senior Scholars Journal
> Basket survey.  We got 975 responses. MISQ and ISR were one and two.  JAIS
> was three and JMIS was four, although there was no significant difference
> between JAIS and JMIS.
>
> So I strongly recommend MISQ, ISR, JAIS, JMIS, and a journal of your
> choice.
>
> Alan
>
> -----Original Message-----
> From: AISWorld [mailto:aisworld-bounces at lists.aisnet.org] On Behalf Of
> Templeton, Gary
> Sent: Monday, June 6, 2016 11:27 PM
> To: aisworld at lists.aisnet.org
> Subject: [AISWorld] Addressing the Financial Times 45 Journal List Revision
>
> IS faculty,
>
> Financial Times is adjusting their list of top 45 business journals. Deans
> across the globe are being surveyed for journals that should be on the
> list. IS faculty across the world are making suggestions to their deans
> about the proper contents of the list.
>
>
> How many IS journals should be on the list? The current list contains 2
> (MISQ and ISR) of the 45, or 4.4%. My recent publication with Bruce Lewis
> on business journal fairness addresses this issue. According to AACSB
> faculty data, 9.45% of business faculty are in the IS discipline. This
> translates to 4.25 (9.45% X 45) journal slots for the IS discipline.
>
>
> Because FT45 is largely a public relations venue and not scientific, the
> IS discipline should respond accordingly. We should certainly have at least
> 4 on the list, but that assumes it is a scientific list. I think we should
> ask for 5 for fear of selling ourselves short.
>
>
> Bruce and I have published two rankings (one IS and the other all
> business) that summarize samples of institutional lists (those used in
> "practice"). We found strong evidence that our field views JMIS to be the
> clear third most esteemed journal in our field.
>
>
> At a minimum, I think the vast majority would agree that MISQ, ISR and
> JMIS should be in the top three. However, only submitting 3 (or 4) to our
> deans, may not serve our field well. I suspect there would be more argument
> about #4 and #5. It would help if members of our research community could
> come to an agreement and pose this top 5 to our deans.
>
>
> I wonder if our group could come to an agreement in such a short time, and
> we could make recommendations to our deans in a uniform way.
>
>
> Gary
>
>
> Reference:
>
> Templeton, G.F. & Lewis, B.R., 2015. "Fairness in the Institutional
> Valuation of Business Journals," MIS Quarterly, Vol. 39, No. 3, pp. 523-539.
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