Are we on the right track? an update to Lyytinen et al.’s commentary on why the old world cannot publish

Abstract

In a thought-provoking paper published in EJIS more than a decade ago, Lyytinen and colleagues asked the question, why does the "old world" perform poorly in high academic impact publishing? This triggered a lively debate on the epistemological and methodological traditions, preferences, and research practices of Europeans versus North Americans that has lasted until today. Is it still true, we asked ourselves, that European scholars generate less academic impact than their North American colleagues? Is the European research context indeed disadvantageous for developing high academic impact research? In this paper, we set out to explore these questions by analysing the Google Scholar profiles of 1713 IS researchers from all over the world. Our findings show that Northern and Western European scholars no longer seem to differ significantly from their North American peers, even though the different research contexts still exercise a certain level of influence. However, is this a development the "old world" desires? We provide an assessment and some suggestions for the future of European IS research.

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“…Through an immeasurable effort put forward by educational societies to convert the illiterates to literates, the dissociation line is narrowed considering the learned communication skills through education. Humans who are unable to cope with the ongoing research to manipulate, invent, express, or extend their ideas to mileage the current design or plan are still considered educated illiterates [4] and/or old world [5]. Most of the available resources to become acquainted with the current trends are available in their digital forms through online resources, such as e-learning blogs, journals, web articles, electronic magazines, and online learning platforms: Coursera, Saylor, etc.…”