“Combining qualitative and quantitative methods information systems research: a case study"
Management Information Systems Quarterly
Can the field of MIS be disciplined?
Communications of the ACM
An analysis of research in information systems from the IS executive's perspective
Information and Management
The problem of statistical power in MIS research
MIS Quarterly
The ecology of MIS research: a twenty year status review
ICIS '89 Proceedings of the tenth international conference on Information Systems
MIS research: a profile of leading journals and universities
ACM SIGMIS Database
An assessment of database research interest in MIS
ACM SIGMIS Database
Research methods in computing: what are they, and how should we teach them?
ITiCSE-WGR '06 Working group reports on ITiCSE on Innovation and technology in computer science education
Information systems as a reference discipline
MIS Quarterly
Editor's comments: why top journals accept your paper
MIS Quarterly
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Manuscript rejection rates for the top IS academic journals average 85-90%. An undesirable consequence of this level of rejection is that the IS community becomes discouraged and disaffected with the review process. Part of the reason so many manuscripts are not ready for publication may lie in the lack of agreement and understanding among IS researchers on the key criteria for evaluating IS research. The purpose of this study is to report on a survey of the perceptions of published authors, reviewers, and editorial board members about the manuscript requirements for publication in IS. Knowledge gained from the study has the potential to: (1) improve the overall quality of future submissions by focusing the researchers' time and effort on key criteria and normative standards for publishing research, as differentiated by research method, (2) reduce the number of revisions required before a manuscript gets published, and (3) suggest journal evaluation forms that more accurately reflect the standards of the IS community. The empirical results reported here provide an introspective analysis of the IS field, a set of normative standards for IS, and an action plan for IS journals.