Can the field of MIS be disciplined?
Communications of the ACM
The evolution of empirical research in IS: a study in IS maturity
Information and Management
Cross-fertilization of knowledge: the case of MIS and its reference disciplines
Information Resources Management Journal
An evaluation of research productivity in academic IT
Communications of the AIS
On site: global perceptions of IS journals
Communications of the ACM
Kevin Bacon, Degrees-of-Separation, and MIS Research Productivity
HICSS '02 Proceedings of the 35th Annual Hawaii International Conference on System Sciences (HICSS'02)-Volume 8 - Volume 8
Objective quality ranking of computing journals
Communications of the ACM - Service-oriented computing
Examining differences across journal rankings
Communications of the ACM - Medical image modeling
Information Systems Research
Research in Information Systems: An Empirical Study of Diversity in the Discipline and Its Journals
Journal of Management Information Systems
Editor's comments: looking for diamond cutters
MIS Quarterly
Information Systems Research
A publication power approach for identifying premier information systems journals
Journal of the American Society for Information Science and Technology
Editorial: Design science, grand challenges, and societal impacts
ACM Transactions on Management Information Systems (TMIS)
DESRIST'11 Proceedings of the 6th international conference on Service-oriented perspectives in design science research
MIS Quarterly
MIS Quarterly
Computing faculty tenure and promotion requirements at USA and Canadian post-secondary institutions
Proceedings of the 2011 conference on Information technology education
Is e-government research a flash in the pan or here for the long shot?
EGOV'06 Proceedings of the 5th international conference on Electronic Government
Institutional support for computing faculty research productivity: does gender matter?
Proceedings of the 50th Annual Southeast Regional Conference
Editor's comments: why top journals accept your paper
MIS Quarterly
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What constitutes excellence in information systems research for promotion and tenure? This is a question that is regularly addressed by members of promotion and tenure committees and those called upon to write external letters. While there are many elements to this question, one major element is the quality and quantity of an individual's research publications. An informal survey of senior Information Systems faculty members at 49 leading U.S. and Canadian universities found 86 percent to expect three or more articles in elite journals. In contrast, an analysis of publication performance of Ph.D. graduates between the years of 1992 and 2004 found that approximately three individuals in each graduating year of Ph.D.s (about 2 percent) published 3 or more articles in a set of 20 elite journals within 6 years of graduation. Only 15 individuals from each graduating year (11 percent) published one or more articles. As a discipline, we publish elite journal articles at a lower rate than Accounting, yet our promotion and tenure standards are higher, similar to those of Management, Marketing, and Finance. Thus, there is a growing divergence between research performance and research standards within the Information Systems discipline. As such, unless we make major changes, these differences will perpetuate a vicious cycle of increasing faculty turnover, declining influence on university affairs, and lower research productivity. We believe that we must act now to create a new future, and offer recommendations that focus on the use of more appropriate standards for promotion and tenure and ways to increase the number of articles published.