[AISWorld] [External] On top journals with low acceptance rate and value delivering to IT professional community

Tue Jun 14 16:55:03 EDT 2022

Dear Colleagues,

I’m glad that Jeet brought into the discussion some missing elements.
First the rigor vs relevance issue.
Then, the “reactionary” nature of IS research.

I agree with both the rigor and relevance.
But different types of research (basic, translational and clinical) have different audiences and are relevant for different people.
I think most practitioners will have little interest in basic research.
But I would expect that they follow translational and clinical research.

In what concerns the 'reactionarieness', I don’t think it is in the nature of the discipline.
I believe it is a matter of time.

The sciences of engineering (thermodynamics, fluid dynamics, aerodynamics, etc) were established in reaction to the appearance of the steam engine and other technologies whose value was easily recognised and quickly diffused in industry and in society.
These sciences established fundamental principles that enabled the improvement of the technologies that originated them, this time following what we normally expect: from scientific knowledge to applications;  basic research -> translational research -> clinical research.

I guess (I hope ☺) we will have something similar in IS.
For now we are still catching up with the technological novelties.
Research is reacting to what is out there in enterprises and society.

In the near future, we will be able of identifying and establishing whatever is fundamental in the processing of information, in the use of computing technologies, etc.
And the ‘reactionarieness’ will end.

 Best regards,

João

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Joao Alvaro Carvalho

Departamento de Sistemas de Informação  
Escola de Engenharia
Universidade do Minho
Guimaraes, Portugal                 
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> On 11 Jun 2022, at 19:26, Jeet Gupta <guptaj at uah.edu> wrote:
> 
> Good afternoon colleagues and friends.
> 
> I have been reading the original post and all the discussion about this
> topic which is a relevant topic of discussion.
> 
> In this connection, I had organized panels at some national and
> international conferences to discuss the issues of "rigor and relevance"
> in refereed journals including top level journals be they in IS or other
> disciplines.
> 
> I think we need to pay attention to both the rigor and relevance in our
> research and publication in any discipline and more so in Information
> Systems (IS).
> 
> However, with due respect to everyone in the IS field, I want to state
> that in my view, we have not paid much attention to the basic/fundamental
> research in IS that would set the IS as a primary discipline.  At best, in
> all the research in IS, it can be considered only as a secondary
> discipline and even that may be questioned by several scientists and
> experts.
> 
> Always comparing IS research and publications to medical profession misses
> the point: medical profession is different for basic/fundamental research
> and practice.  Most of the time when we are doing such comparisons we are
> comparing IS only to the research in the practice of medical profession.
> How about considering the medical sciences (that includes biology,
> biochemistry, technology, etc)?  When we include all those in medical
> fields, we find that there is lot more fundamental research in those areas
> and compared to that, we seem to have only negligible basic/fundamental
> research in IS.  In fact, I remember reading an article in the IS field
> once that argued that we should not be talking about IS as a discipline
> and perhaps it is too early to discuss the basic/fundamental research
> issues in IS to define research paradigms in IS.
> 
> Thus, in my view, IS research is reactionary in nature rather being
> proactive.  I take the research in Strategic Information Systems (or even
> Strategic Information Management) as an example.  While we can always talk
> about IS strategy and its formulation after the fact, we cannot properly
> define IS strategy or the methodology needed to formulate an IS strategy
> in a proactive manner.  In addition, we cannot in advance say what IS
> strategies will produce certain types of research.  Further, in many
> publications, the very principle of scientific publications (that the
> reported results must be reproducible) is not confirmed. This I think
> because of the lack of enough basic/fundamental research and publications
> in IS.
> 
> I also think of the need for basic/fundamental research from another point
> of view that is particularly relevant to the academicians that most of us
> are.  Academic research is "forward looking" and discusses issues that may
> emerge well into the future but may have no application at present.  Thus,
> our academic research should open more avenues for thinking and practice
> in the future that is sometime called "long-term thinking."  In the field
> of Operations Management, for example, we could not have developed the
> current state of the art in say Flexible Manufacturing Systems or even
> Service Operations Management without enough basic/fundamental research
> that is future oriented rather than being relevant today.  I know of some
> research articles published some of these areas that were found useful
> well after a decade of their publication.
> 
> Thus, while I appreciate the desire of the IS researchers to seek
> relevance in solving immediate practical problems, I think the viability
> of the IS discipline and its very acceptance as a primary discipline
> heavily depends on those who do the basic/fundamental research and publish
> their findings.  Thus, we should encourage our colleagues and friends to
> increase research in basic/fundamental IS research and publications on one
> hand and to encourage the top IS journals to increase the share of such
> articles being published.
> 
> 
> Best regards,
> 
> 
> 
> Jatinder (Jeet) N. D. Gupta, PhD, CFPIM
> Director, Integrated Enterprise Lab
> Eminent Scholar and Professor
> College of Business
> The University of Alabama in Huntsville
> 301 Sparkman Drive
> Huntsville, AL 35899
> Phone: 256-824-6593 (office)
>            256-520-0175 (cell)
> FAX:    256-824-6328
> E-mail: guptaj at uah.edu
> 
> 
> -----Original Message-----
> From: AISWorld [mailto:aisworld-bounces at lists.aisnet.org] On Behalf Of
> JOSE MANUEL MORA TAVAREZ
> Sent: Wednesday, June 8, 2022 12:58 PM
> To: João Alvaro Carvalho <jac at dsi.uminho.pt>
> Cc: aisworld at lists.aisnet.org
> Subject: [External] Re: [AISWorld] On top journals with low acceptance
> rate and value delivering to IT professional community
> 
> 
> Dear colleague Joao,
> 
> Thanks first for your excellent classification of types of research in the
> medical domain. Top eminent IS researchers from the 70s, 80s, and still
> working in the 90s, addressed REAL problems sensed from the practice, and
> they use the minimal required theory (theory testing) or advanced with
> small logical steps (theory development) with a scientific narrative
> simple and visible. The exemplary case previously reported is a seminal
> example of what must be top research:
> 
> Compeau, D. R., & Higgins, C. A. (1995). Application of social cognitive
> theory to training for computer skills. Information Systems Research,
> 6(2), 118-143.
> 
> This title reports theoretical and methodological rigor and high
> relevance, and their results can be transferred to the industry. My main
> concern is that IS top research nowadays is being led by new generations
> of top Professors that are lost their IT technical roots (how to design an
> IS, how to program on R, how to evaluate a IS architecture, and so on). In
> the past IS had a strong engineering component as valuable as the
> managerial one, but now it does not happen.
> 
> Most exemplary human being case: in the 1999-2000  period, I emailed 2
> brief emails to Prof. Herbert Alexander Simon, he was still at CMU or at
> least he still read his emails, and I received two kind academic responses
> (emails were about investigating methodologies for designing integrated
> DMSS). I mean, a #1 mind had the time to respond 2 emails, and now
> colleagues with high rankings do not respond to academic emails. Next
> year, a Mexican peer visited CMU and gave him a small 20 USD present from
> me (an Aztec Calendar) and he received it kindly. Actually, my Mexican
> peer asked 1 question, by visiting time limits, on what the world economy
> was so bad? and he a Nobel Economy 1978 award and a 1972 ACM Turing Award,
> and co-inventor of the AI simply said: he did not know why.
> 
> I had 2 Mexican colleagues that gained their PhD at CMU, and I had the
> opportunity to gain a dual PhD Monterrey Tech - CMU but I changed from PhD
> program in 1993 to UNAM.
> 
> A similar top idea from Prof. Russell L. Ackof, I met him in 2004 at a top
> conference at Wharton School, on the problem that "real problems are not
> divided as the academic departments and scientific areas are".
> 
> In summary, we, around 60 years old, understood that IS curricula and PhD
> MIS programs at present are lost their core mission.
> Cheers!
> 
> Manuel
> 
> PS. I believe that new PhD students should read papers from Prof. Davis,
> Prof. Zmud, Prof. Alter, Prof. Hevner, Prof. Smith, Prof. Glass, Prof.
> Watson, Prof. Sambamurthy, Prof. Nunamaler, and most of the Professors
> from the 70s, 80s and 90s. We learned from their top research papers.
> 
> 
> 
> 
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> Prof. Dr. José Manuel Mora Tavarez
> Depto. de Sistemas de Información
> Centro de Ciencias Básicas
> Universidad Autónoma de Aguascalientes
> Ave. Universidad 940
> Aguascalientes, AGS. México 20131
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> 
> ________________________________
> From: João Alvaro Carvalho <jac at dsi.uminho.pt>
> Sent: Wednesday, June 8, 2022 9:55 AM
> To: JOSE MANUEL MORA TAVAREZ <jose.mora at edu.uaa.mx>
> Cc: AISWorld at lists.aisnet.org <aisworld at lists.aisnet.org>
> Subject: Re: [AISWorld] On top journals with low acceptance rate and value
> delivering to IT professional community
> 
> Dear Manuel,
> 
> In the early 80’s, in Portugal, there was a close collaboration between IS
> practitioners and IS academics.
> I was then a student and later recent graduate from a Informatics
> Engineering degree program and I remember attending the events of the
> Portuguese Informatics Association where academics and practitioners share
> the floor presenting communications that both could understand.
> 
> Nowadays national conferences are organised by scientific societies and
> only a few practitioners attend.
> 
> Perhaps this is a trend associated with the evolution of the informatics
> field.
> 
> Herbert Simon, in the book “The Sciences of the Artificial” pointed a
> trend in professional schools becoming sciences schools: schools in
> engineering, business, architecture, medicine, etc, focusing on the
> sciences that support them and neglecting the design and practice
> dimension.
> Another reinforcement to the uncoupling of research and practice.
> 
> I definitely agree with you that there is a gap between research and
> practice.
> I think the publication problems you mention are only a part of a larger
> problem.
> 
> Regards,
> 
> João
> 
> 
> On 7 Jun 2022, at 20:05, JOSE MANUEL MORA TAVAREZ
> <jose.mora at edu.uaa.mx<mailto:jose.mora at edu.uaa.mx>> wrote:
> 
> Colleagues Joao, David, and Michael,
> 
> I estimate we have similar paths - everyone in our respective national
> context- gaining a BSc on Informatics in the early 80's, and about 60
> years old. In my case, I arrived late to research (early 2000 year).
> However, my general concern about top research and top journals in
> Informatics (Management Information Systems) is their bias in the last
> decades to study micro-problems using sophisticated concepts far away of
> the mindset of the final IT users - CIOs, CTOs, CKMs, CISOs, managers,
> developers, and so on).  The analogy with the medical field or with
> systems engineering fields was done from a natural perception of studied
> topics, where the title and abstracts of most papers make sense for
> practitioners. For our discipline, when you review title and abstract of
> papers published in top journals in the 70s, 80s and yet 90s, and compare
> them with current ones, the natural relevance for practitioners is lost.
> It could be supported with an experimental research. Just one example from
> a top#1 journal:
> 
> Compeau, D. R., & Higgins, C. A. (1995). Application of social cognitive
> theory to training for computer skills. Information Systems Research,
> 6(2), 118-143.
> 
> This title attracts to practitioners without the need to have a PhD in
> MIS, because it includes natural IT agents (IT people demanding computer
> training) and a natural problem (how to improve computer skills), and a
> top theory ! (social cognitive theory). This paper has over 2,000
> citations.
> 
> The key idea here is that in the current top research, the IT artifact and
> IT agents involved are not the important things to be studied in the
> research but else other complementary issues.
> 
> Well, cheers colleagues!
> Manuel
> 
> 
> 
> 
> ------------------------------------------------------------
> Prof. Dr. José Manuel Mora Tavarez
> Depto. de Sistemas de Información
> Centro de Ciencias Básicas
> Universidad Autónoma de Aguascalientes
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> ________________________________
> From: Prof. David G. Schwartz
> <David.Schwartz at biu.ac.il<mailto:David.Schwartz at biu.ac.il>>
> Sent: Tuesday, June 7, 2022 11:44 AM
> To: João Alvaro Carvalho <jac at dsi.uminho.pt<mailto:jac at dsi.uminho.pt>>
> Cc: JOSE MANUEL MORA TAVAREZ
> <jose.mora at edu.uaa.mx<mailto:jose.mora at edu.uaa.mx>>; Michael Myers
> <m.myers at auckland.ac.nz<mailto:m.myers at auckland.ac.nz>>;
> AISWorld at lists.aisnet.org<mailto:AISWorld at lists.aisnet.org>
> <aisworld at lists.aisnet.org<mailto:aisworld at lists.aisnet.org>>
> Subject: Re: [AISWorld] On top journals with low acceptance rate and value
> delivering to IT professional community
> 
> Dear João and all,
> 
> I have for years been advocating for the adoption of certain (positive)
> aspects of the medical discipline for our own research and education
> practices.
> See: Schwartz, D. G. (2014). Research commentary—the disciplines of
> information: Lessons from the history of the discipline of medicine.
> Information Systems Research, 25(2), 205-221.
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> 
> In addition to the excellent points that you raise regarding three types
> of research, and the important synergies between
> hospital/clinic/patient/MD in the organizational context, the medical
> field also benefits from a clear definition of core knowledge (that which
> all MDs are required to study and know), and wide ranging specializations
> (which allow for growth of the field from the common core). This did not
> occur overnight and is the result of a 100+ year process of unification
> and specialization which had tremendous disciplinary benefits.
> 
> Medical specialization was the result of a number of motivators and
> environmental factors. It was the pragmatic outgrowth of the evolution of
> the field and the impacts of environment and technology. One might even be
> tempted to say that it was a sociotechnical result. But it was also the
> result of a conceptual leap taken by John Morgan, founder of university
> medical education in the United States, in his discourse of 1765 (Gelfand
> 1976). It would take almost 100 years for the ideas crystallized by Morgan
> to significantly alter the medical landscape. We don’t have that long.
> Despite some clear differences between the discipline of medicine and the
> Disciplines of Information (DI) at scientific, academic, and practical
> levels, there remains a strong and clear parallel between the factors that
> led to today’s conceptualization of the medical field. Following Freidson
> (1988) the identification and analysis of these factors makes it clear
> that we have much to learn from the history of medicine. Much work remains
> to be done in characterizing what will become the core and specialties of
> DI; what institutional ecology will result; and how specialization would
> be determined, accredited, and maintained.
> 
> Perhaps the time has come for a working committee to systematically try
> and determine what aspects of the medical disciplinary structure we would
> be wise to adopt.
> 
> Refs:
> Freidson E (1988) Profession of Medicine: A Study of the Sociology of
> Applied Knowledge (University of Chicago Press, Chicago).
> Gelfand T (1976) The origins of a modern concept of medical
> specialization: John Morgan’s Discourse of 1765. Bull. Hist. Medicine
> 50(4):511–535.
> 
> 
> --David
> -----------------------------------------------
> David G. Schwartz
> Professor of Information Systems
> Graduate School of Business
> Bar-Ilan University, Israel
> 
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> On Tue, Jun 7, 2022 at 7:07 PM João Alvaro Carvalho
> <jac at dsi.uminho.pt<mailto:jac at dsi.uminho.pt>> wrote:
> Hi José and Michael,
> 
> In the first message, José compares IS research with medical research.
> 
> It called my attention because I have been looking into medical research,
> trying to establish the parallel with IS.
> 
> In medical research there is a well established distinction among 3 types
> of research: basic/blue skies research; translational research; and
> clinical research: the first is driven by curiosity; the second aims at
> creating new “treatments"; the third aims at establishing the
> effectiveness of “treatments”.
> Clinical research typically involves practitioners. They get involved in
> clinical research with their own patients or involving the patients of the
> hospital they work in. Thus, practitioners are also producers of research
> reports. Not mere consumers.
> I would say that medical practitioners (ate least some) look into reports
> of translational research when looking for novel treatments for some
> disease they are interested in, and they look into reports of clinical
> research looking for evidence about the effectiveness of the
> existing/alternative treatments for a disease.
> This is particularly true when practitioners follow evidence-based
> medicine practices.
> 
> In the case of IS we miss several of the components I mentioned above.
> A lot of (most) IS research is basic/blue skies research.
> DSR takes us close to translational research. However, a few differences
> can be mentioned.
> 
> We seldom have clinical research.
> We lack a systematic catalogue of diseases.
> We lack a systematic catalogue of treatments, with all the elements we
> found in the leaflet of any medicament we get from a pharmacy.
> Furthermore, evidence-based practice is far from being established.
> I recognise that medicine is much better organised. OK, it is much mature.
> After all it is one of the oldest professions in the world… ;-)
> 
> But I believe that we can learn a lot from it.
> Not just in the research facet. I also mean the way research is entangled
> with practice. And the way practitioners get involved in teaching.
> And the way students get involved into practice, since early in their
> programs, and at the final stage of their training.
> I understand that the differences between IS and medicine, prevent us from
> “importing” all the package of medicine.
> But several things could be done. As soon as possible.
> 
> Regards,
> 
> João
> 
> 
> 
> 
> 
> 
> 
>> On 7 Jun 2022, at 01:45, JOSE MANUEL MORA TAVAREZ
> <jose.mora at edu.uaa.mx<mailto:jose.mora at edu.uaa.mx>> wrote:
>> 
>> Prof. Ioannadis is a top cited researcher (over 400,000 citations). This
> next paper has over 11,000 citations:
>> 
>> Ioannidis JP. Why most published research findings are false. PLoS
>> Med. 2005; 2(8):e124. PMID: 16060722
>> 
>> There are interesting replies on this top paper clarifying the previous
> strong assertion at:
>> 
>> Stroebe, W. (2016). Are most published social psychological findings
> false?. Journal of Experimental Social Psychology, 66, 134-144.
>> "Ioannidis´ claim is valid only for one-shot studies without replication
> and with a low a priori probability that the tested hypothesis is true."
>> 
>> 
>> Lydersen, S., & Langaas, M. (2021). What proportion of published
> research findings are false?. Tidsskrift for Den norske legeforening.
>> "Ioannidis produced a model which was based on a number of assumptions
> in various study designs. The assumptions may appear realistic, but it is
> a weakness that they to not build on data."
>> 
>> 
>> Diekmann, A. (2011). Are most published research findings false?.
> Jahrbücher für Nationalökonomie und Statistik, 231(5-6), 628-635.
>> "This short note sketches the argument and explores under what
> conditions the assertion holds. The “positive predictive value” (PPV) is
> lower than 1/2 if the a priori probability of the truth of a hypothesis is
> low. However, computation of the PPV includes only significant results. If
> both significant and non-significant results are taken into account the
> “total error ratio” (TER) will not exceed 1/2 provided no extremely large
> publication bias is present. "
>> 
>> but most interesting recommendation from Ioannadis (2016) on what is
> useful research:
>> 
>> "Many of the features that make clinical research useful can be
> identified, including those relating to problem base, context placement,
> information gain, pragmatism, patient centeredness, value for money,
> feasibility, and transparency" (Ioannadis, 2016; p.1).
>> 
>> From a practitioner perspective, many medical practitioners consult
> medical research journals to search for insights and clues and it is
> impossible at present in IS top research.
>> 
>> 
>> 
>> ------------------------------------------------------------
>> Prof. Dr. José Manuel Mora Tavarez
>> Depto. de Sistemas de Información
>> Centro de Ciencias Básicas
>> Universidad Autónoma de Aguascalientes Ave. Universidad 940
>> Aguascalientes, AGS. México 20131
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>> 
>> 
>> ________________________________
>> From: Michael Myers
>> <m.myers at auckland.ac.nz<mailto:m.myers at auckland.ac.nz>>
>> Sent: Monday, June 6, 2022 4:57 PM
>> To: AISWorld at lists.aisnet.org<mailto:AISWorld at lists.aisnet.org>
>> <aisworld at lists.aisnet.org<mailto:aisworld at lists.aisnet.org>>
>> Cc: JOSE MANUEL MORA TAVAREZ
>> <jose.mora at edu.uaa.mx<mailto:jose.mora at edu.uaa.mx>>
>> Subject: RE: On top journals with low acceptance rate and value
>> delivering to IT profes sional community
>> 
>> 
>> Most medical research is not very useful either. For example, some
> estimates suggest that only about 10% of drug trials are successful. For
> more info, see:
>> 
>> 
>> 
>> Citation: Ioannidis JPA (2016) Why Most Clinical Research Is Not
>> Useful. PLoS Med 13(6):
>> e1002049.https://doi.org/10.1371/journal.pmed.1002049<https://nam04.sa
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>> 
>> 
>> 
>> But until you actually conduct some research, how can you find out?
>> 
>> 
>> 
>> 
>> 
>> From: AISWorld
>> <aisworld-bounces at lists.aisnet.org<mailto:aisworld-bounces at lists.aisne
>> t.org>> On Behalf Of JOSE MANUEL MORA TAVAREZ
>> Sent: Tuesday, 7 June 2022 9:28 AM
>> To: AISWorld at lists.aisnet.org<mailto:AISWorld at lists.aisnet.org>
>> Subject: [AISWorld] On top journals with low acceptance rate and value
>> delivering to IT professional community
>> 
>> 
>> 
>> It is not expected that practitioners from any discipline were usual
> readers of scientific journals, but it should be ethically expected that
> scientific journals in any discipline produce knowledge that can be used -
> after adaptations or simplifications - in real interventions by
> practitioners, like medical research. Top MIS journals in the 70s and 80s
> achieved this mission but at present days, is it true? Multiple
> micro-problems are studied and selectively published (about 5% of
> acceptance) in top journals but I estimate the same percentage of 5% will
> be useful for practitioners in the next 5 years. Then, are we delivering
> value for the real population of interest in our discipline?
>> 
>> ----------------------------------------------------------------------
>> ----
>> Manuel Mora, EngD.
>> Full-time Professor and Researcher Level C ACM Senior Member / SNI
>> Member Department of Information Systems Autonomous University of
>> Aguascalientes Ave. Universidad 940 Aguascalientes, AGS Mexico, 20131
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