The scholarly influence of Heinz Klein: ideational and social measures of his impact on IS research and IS scholars

Toward a richer diversity of genres in information systems research: new categorization and guidelines

“…The likelihood to meet the publication standards expectations greatly increases if at least two colleagues with experience on the problem (in the domain) are collaborating. A lot has been said and proposed on the methods required to collect, organize, document and summarize the set of empirical and non-empirical papers that are relevant to the problem such as meta-analysis, meta-synthesis and the like (e.g., Truex et al, 2011;Wu & Du, 2012). This paper collection effort has to be significant and substantial, that is, done with some intelligence and applied to a sufficient set of papers.…”

Taylorizing business school research: On the ‘one best way’ performative effects of journal ranking lists

“…Such performative effects are, of course, greatest when they weaken or marginalize alternative criteria and processes of evaluation. Examining the use and effects of 3 journal lists is therefore important not simply for better understanding, or refining, how such metrics are devised (see Truex et al, 2011 for a critical review) but also, and more significantly, for appreciating and questioning their constitutive role in defining and policing the focus and direction of research activity.…”

“…In sum, in the field of management and business, there are major problems and limitations of relying upon citation counts to determine journal quality (see also Truex et al, 2011) iv .…”

An evaluation of information behaviour studies through the Scholarly Capital Model

“…Scholarly influence research began in 2008 with Southern Association for Information Systems (SAIS), The Americas Conference on Information Systems (AMCIS), and International Conference on Information Systems (ICIS) papers, which showed how to measure the scientific influence by means of the Hirsch family indices ( h ‐indices). The concept of connectedness was subsequently added to some studies (Truex et al ., ; Takeda, ). Finally, the concept of venue representation was added by Cuellar et al .…”

“…Despite the availability of a wide variety of metrics, there remains no perfect method for measuring the quality of a publication. It is why Truex, Cuellar, and Takeda () and Truex, Cuellar, Takeda, and Vidgen (), for example, propose to transform the question from ‘Is this scholar's work of sufficient quality in his/her field?’ to ‘Is this scholar sufficiently influential in his/her field’?…”