Assessing Researcher Publication Productivity in the Leading Information Systems Journals: A 2003-2007 Update

Abstract

The University of Texas at San AntonioThis study examines the leading IS researchers and the universities that supply them. We reviewed publications from nine leading IS journals during calendar years 2003 to 2007. During that time, 3,404 researchers contributed toward 2,155 published articles. Our analysis shows that most of the leading researchers were affiliated with institutions in North America. Our study also includes an analysis of the publication productivity of both IS faculty and doctoral students. This research contributes to the scientometric literature by providing a means for assessing IS publication productivity.

A citation and profiling analysis of pricing research from 1980 to 2010

“…(1/n) is typical in citation research (see, for example, Lowry et al, 2007, andClark et al, 2009) and many business schools use this weighting when evaluating an individual faculty member's number of articles published. In addition, we conducted auto-correlation analyses of top authors to identify possible co-author networks.…”

Best Practices for Increasing IS Enrollment: A Program Perspective

“…The Florida State faculty fared better than their colleagues at the University of Central Florida, which in 2009 announced that it was eliminating its IS programs (Bachelor's, Master's, and Doctoral), shutting down the department, and terminating the contracts of all faculty, including tenured full professors [Hickley, 2009]. Both programs are highly regarded with well-known faculty [Clark, Warren, and Au, 2009]. The situation has grown from serious to critical.…”

Assessing Researcher Publication Productivity in the Leading Information Systems Journals: A 2005–2009 Update

“…In Section II, we provide a survey of relevant scientometric research related to academic journals in the IS field. Because the current study is an update and extension of Clark et al [2009], which extended Clark and Warren [2006], we include both the background studies and relevant updates and advances within this literature. In Section III, we specify the types of publications we included and did not include in the study, and we identify the data collected for the authors of each included research article from the Select-11 journals during calendar years 2005 thru 2009.…”

“…For assessment of the quality of individual or institutional research, a critical aspect of scientometric studies in IS has been the assessment of journal quality [Chua, Cao, Cousins, and Straub, 2002;Huang and Hsu, 2005;Karuga, Lowry, and Richardson, 2007;Clark, Warren, and Au, 2007;Lowry, Karuga, and Richardson, 2007;Clark et al, 2009]. Scientific research aimed at measuring the quality of IS publication outlets has taken one (or more) of five basic strategies:…”