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AIS Newsletter |
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IS SECTION / AMERICAN ACCOUNTING ASSOCIATION. |
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In the Literature By Ronny Daigle |
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Greetings! I hope all is well for everyone this spring. Consistent with past columns, I focus on the IS literature since most are aware of the current accounting literature. Also consistent with prior columns, article abstracts are provided with some editing for shortening or elaboration. I enjoyed looking at many articles published since the last newsletter, and list and categorize a number of them below within certain topic areas.
Please note that the Journal of the Association for Information Systems continues to provide free access to all of its archived articles extending back to its first volume in 2000 at their website of http://jais.isworld.org/contents.asp. To access any article, enter "readjais" into both the UserID and Password boxes.
If an article peeks your interest and you cannot find it, please email me and I will try to get a copy for you.
Research on Research
Roger Clarke, 2008. An Exploratory Study of Information Systems Researcher Impact, Communications of the Association for Information Systems, Volume 22, Article 1, January.
The author states that citation counts of refereed articles are a potentially valuable measure of the impact of a researcher's work, in the information systems discipline as in many others. Citation counts can be generated from a number of data collections, including Thomson’s ISI database and Google Scholar. The paper reports on an exploratory study of the apparent impact of IS researchers, as disclosed by citation counts of their works in these two collections. The author states that citation analysis using currently available databases is found to be fraught with many serious problems, particularly if the ISI collection is used. Unless these problems are appreciated and addressed, IS researchers will be under-valued by those with authority over research funding and employment, to the serious detriment of the IS discipline.
Bruce R. Lewis, Gary F. Templeton, and Xin Luo, 2007. A Scientometric Investigation into the Validity of IS Journal Quality Measures, Journal of the Association for Information Systems, Volume 8, Issue 12, Article 35, December.
In this study the authors investigated the measurement validity of the findings in the IS journal quality stream over the past ten years. Their evaluation applied a series of validation tests to the metrics presented in these studies using data from multiple sources. The results of their tests for content, convergent, and discriminant validity, as well as those for parallel-form, test-retest, and item-to-total reliability, were highly supportive. From these findings, the authors conclude that recent studies in the IS journal quality stream are credible. As such, these IS journal quality measures provide appropriate indicators of relative journal quality. This conclusion is important for both academic administrators and scientometric researchers, the latter of whom depend on journal quality measures in the evaluation of published IS research. |
