Title
Journal Lists are Not Going Away: A Response to Fitzgerald et al.
Campus Units
Supply Chain and Information Systems
Document Type
Article
Publication Version
Published Version
Publication Date
2019
Journal or Book Title
Communications of the Association for Information Systems
Volume
45
Issue
paper 8
First Page
134
Last Page
138
DOI
10.17705/1CAIS.04508
Abstract
In their paper, Fitzgerald, Dennis, An, Tsutsui, and Muchhala (2019) make several key points. Primarily, they argue that the practice of estimating a journal paper’s quality by considering the journal that published it is flawed. The perceived quality of the journal in which a paper appears does not guarantee the paper’s quality. In fact, they argue, journal impact factors themselves constitute flawed measures. The Association for Information Systems (AIS) Senior Scholars’ “basket of eight”, they claim, like many other journal lists, does not reliably indicate the premier journals in the field. They begin their commentary by stating that “the fact that someone cited a paper almost always clearly and unmistakably signifies that they found it useful in their own research” (p. 111), yet they consider citation counts a lagging indicator of quality. Instead, they propose that the information systems (IS) discipline consider and develop “leading indicators” of journal quality.
Copyright Owner
Communications of the Association for Information Systems
Copyright Date
2019
Language
en
File Format
application/pdf
Recommended Citation
George, Joey F., "Journal Lists are Not Going Away: A Response to Fitzgerald et al." (2019). Supply Chain and Information Systems Publications. 68.
https://lib.dr.iastate.edu/scm_pubs/68
Comments
This article is published as George, J. F. (2019). Journal Lists are Not Going Away: A Response to Fitzgerald et al.. Communications of the Association for Information Systems, 45, pp-pp. https://doi.org/10.17705/1CAIS.04508.