[IRIS] Prof. Brian Fitzgerald's FHDi Talk 26th Nov — “Spray and Pray: The Curse of Academic Publishing in the Age of Gen-AI”

[Lumivalo, Juuli]

Dear Colleagues,

The Finnish Hub for Digitalization (FHDi) warmly invites you to the upcoming FHDi Talk featuring our esteemed guest speaker Prof. Brian Fitzgerald from the University of Limerick. Prof. Fitzgerald’s talk is entitled “Spray and Pray: The Curse of Academic Publishing in the Age of Gen-AI,” and takes place on Wed 26th November at 12 on site at the University of Jyväskylä—the event is also streamed via Zoom.

The event is open for everyone. Please register via the link below. Registered participants will receive a calendar invite with room & Zoom details. Coffee will be served after the talk.

Time: Wed 26 November at 12:00-13:00 EET
Location: Hybrid: Agora, JYU/Zoom (details sent via calendar invite)
Register: https://link.webropol.com/ep/fhdi-talk-prof-fitzgerald


Title: Spray and Pray: The Curse of Academic Publishing in the Age of Gen-AI

Abstract: The traditional academic mantra, longstanding in academia for the past 100 years or so, has been Publish or Perish. Today, that has metamorphosed into a frenzy of Submit/Submit/Submit or what could be termed Spray and Pray! Researchers seek to publish in particular journals in the first submit instance, pray for success, and cascade down if rejected. However, empirical evidence to support these journal rankings is lacking. It is also clear that Generative-AI is exacerbating this problem. Some potential solutions to address this are advocated, notably around elevating paper reviewing to a first-class activity, and possible publication citizenship behaviour metrics (e.g., S-P Index) are suggested.
Bio:
Brian Fitzgerald was a founding Principal Investigator in Lero–the Irish Software Research Centre<http://www.lero.ie/> in 2005, and held the roles of Chief Scientist and Director there. He holds an endowed professorship, the Krehbiel Chair in Innovation in Business & Technology, at the University of Limerick, where he also served as Vice President Research. In 2020, he was elected President of the Association for Information Systems<https://aisnet.org/>, the global body for information systems worldwide. He was a recipient of the IFIP award for Outstanding Service in 2013 and the IFIP Silver Core Award in 2016. In 2024, he received the LEO Award<https://ishistory.aisnet.org/awards/leoaward/> in recognition of his lifetime contribution to the Information Systems discipline.
He holds a PhD from the University of London and his research interests lie primarily in software development, encompassing open source and inner source, crowdsourcing software development, agile and lean software development, and global software development. His publications include 17 books, and over 170 peer-reviewed articles in the leading international journals and conferences in both the Information Systems and Software Engineering fields, including MIS Quarterly (MISQ), Information Systems Research (ISR), IEEE Transactions on Software Engineering (TSE) and ACM Transactions on Software Engineering Methodology (TOSEM). He also serves as General Chair for the premier conferences in both disciplines, the 37th International Conference on Information Systems (ICIS), held in Dublin in 2016, and the 49th International Conference on Software Engineering (ICSE), to be held in Dublin in 2027.
His research projects have received over €115m in peer-reviewed funding from national and international funding agencies. Prior to taking up an academic position, he worked as a software developer for about 12 years, working in Ireland, Belgium and Germany.


Looking forward to engaging discussions on academic publishing in the Gen-AI age!

Best regards,

Juuli/The FHDi Team




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Juuli Lumivalo
University Teacher, Coordinator (Finnish Hub for Digitalization, FHDi)

Faculty of Information Technology, University of Jyväskylä (JYU)
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