MIS Remains High in Top Publication Rankings
February 4, 2011
Publishing ones work helps promote scientific progress as science builds upon what is known. In order for progress to occur, knowledge needs to be shared.
Information systems (IS), like other fields, has a variety of publishing outlets for researchers. Scientific journals contain articles that have been peer reviewed, in an attempt to ensure that articles meet the journal's standards of quality, and scientific validity.
The MIS department at Eller College is proud of its faculty and students who have attained high publication rankings for 2010.
Three of the most prestigious IS journals/publications are MIS Quarterly (MISQ), Information Systems Research (ISR) and Journal of MIS (JMIS). The MIS department is ranked #4 for the 2008-2010 period and #8 for the 2006-2010 period for these three publications.
In addition, for the years 2006-2010 four MIS faculty members were ranked in the top 100 authors.
- Jay Nunamaker (#25)
- Hsinchun Chen (#31)
- Paulo Goes (#33)
- David Pingry (#33)
Samples of articles published in 2010 include the following
Journal |
Article |
Author |
Year |
Volume |
Information Systems Research |
Understanding Willingness-to-Pay Formation of Repeat Bidders in Sequential Online Auctions |
Paulo Goes, Gilbert Karuga, Arvind Tripathi |
2010 |
21 |
Journal of Management Information Systems |
Predicting Collaboration Technology Use: Integrating Technology Adoption and Collaboration Research |
Susan Brown, Alan Dennis, Viswanath Venkatesh |
2010 |
27 |
Journal of Management Information Systems |
Technology Dominance in Complex Decision Making: The Case of Aided Credibility Assessment |
Matthew Jensen, Paul Lowry, Judee Burgoon, Jay Nunamaker |
2010 |
27 |
MIS Quarterly |
Detecting Fake Websites: The contribution of Statistical Learning Theory |
Ahmed Abbasi, Zhu Zhang, David Zimbra, Hsinchun Chen, Jay Nunamaker |
2010 |
34 |
Yet another publication ranking list is the “h index for MIS.”
The h-index is a citation index that attempts to measure both the productivity and impact of the published work of a scientist or scholar. The index was suggested by Jorge E. Hirsch, a physicist at UCSD, as a tool for determining theoretical physicists' relative quality (Hirsch, 2005). A scholar with an index of h has published h papers each of which has been cited by others at least h times. The h-index is intended to measure simultaneously the quality and sustainability of scientific output, as well as, to some extent, the diversity of scientific research. Since 2005, the h-index has been discussed and analyzed in major publications such as PNAS and Nature (Hirsch, 2005, 2007; Lehmann et al., 2006; Wendl, 2007) and adopted in many disciplines (e.g., physics, biology, computer science, information science, social sciences, economics, etc.)
"This (h-index ranking) is very, very impressive – both for the department and for your fellow faculty superstars! Congratulations all around." |
UA/MIS faculty Jay Nunamaker and Hsinchun Chen are ranked in the top four, along with Andy Whinston and Izak Benbasat (the only four MIS scholars with the h index over 50 based on Google Scholar). Other UA alumni and faculty on the ranked list (minimum h index of 20) include: Alan Dennis, Joe Valacich, Robert Briggs, Sudha Ram, and Leon Zhao.
Please see http://ai.eller.arizona.edu/resources/h-Index.pdf for more information on the h-index rankings.
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