[AISWorld] Recent News about Information and Management (I&M)

[Patrick Chau]

Subject:  Recent News about Information and Management (I&M)
To: Colleagues in the AISWorld Community

Dear Colleagues:

As the EIC of I&M, I would like to provide you with several recent news about our journal, I&M.

1.      Appointments of New Senior Editors
We are delighted to update the community that two scholars have kindly agreed to join the editorial board of I&M as Senior Editor starting 1 July 2022.  They are Carol Hsu from the University of Sydney, Australia and Jose Benitez from EDHEC, France.  Both of them have been Associate Editors of the journal for many years and have tremendous contributions to the journal in their AE roles. With both of them on board, the Journal now has three Senior Editors, one from each AIS region, with Han Zhang from Region 1, Jose Benitez from Region 2 and Carol Hsu from Region 3.

2.      Appointments of New Associate Editors
We are also delighted to announce that 13 scholars become Associate Editors starting 1 July 2022. They are:

Charki, Mohamed-Hedi    EDHEC Business School   France
Du, Kui University of Massachusetts Boston      USA
Jha, Ashish     Trinity College Dublin  Ireland
Lee, Daniel     University of Massachusetts Boston      USA
Trang, Simon    University of Goettingen        Germany
Jiang, QiQi     Copengagen Business School      Denmark
Spagnoletti, Paolo      University of Luiss     Italy
Wang, Tawei     DePaul University       USA
Chang, Hsin-Lu  National Chengchi University    Taiwan
Andrade, Mariana        University of Georgia   USA
Cui, Tingru     University of Melbourne Australia
Zhao, Kang      University of Iowa      USA
Zhou, Wenqi     Duquesne University     USA


3.      Release of Impact Factor 2021
The 2021 Journal Citation Reports have just been released.  We are pleased to update colleagues that the impact factor of I&M has increased from 5.155 in 2019 to 7.555 in 2020 to 10.328 in 2021.  With this 2021 figure, it places I&M as the 3rd (out of 84 journals) in the field of Information Science & Library Science, the 7th (out of 164 journals) in the field of Computer Science & Information Systems, and the 18th (out of 226 journals) in the field of Management.

4.      Release of CiteScore 2021
The 2021 CiteScore have also been released.  The CiteScore of I&M has increased from 11.0 in 2019 to 12.3 in 2020 to 13.1 in 2021.  With this 2021 figure, it places I&M as the 4th (out of 135 journals) in the field of business, management & accounting - management information systems, the 7th (out of 140 journals) in the field of Decision Sciences - Information Systems and Management, and the 14th (out of 389 journals) in the field of Computer Science - Information systems.

Thank you all for your tremendous contributions to the journal as an editorial board member, a reviewer and/or an author.  We look forward to your continued support to make further contributions to our discipline by getting more high-quality research work to the Journal with high impact to not only the academic world but also the society at large.

Cheers,


Patrick Chau
EIC of I&M

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