The ranking of top IS journals: a perspective from the London School of Economics

Abstract

The Information Systems and Innovation Group at the London School of Economics has developed a distinct profile of social theory driven research across a wide range of mainstream and specialist IS topics. In this paper, we explain why we do not find existing IS journal rankings appropriate for the assessment of quality of the publications of our Group. We present a set of lists of internationally recognised outlets that we provide to the committee responsible for promotions decisions in our university and we use to advise junior staff and students on where they should publish their work. In addition to these lists, decisions on research quality in our university require the opinion of specialist experts on both the particular outlet of a publication and the publication itself. We argue for the merits of our research quality assessment approach and reflect on its risks.

Social commerce—state-of-the-art and future research directions

“…Conferences provide valuable contributions for the exchange of new ideas and support the development of new research agendas (e.g., Levy and Ellis 2006;Probst et al 2013). Hence, we included two major international IS conferences, namely the proceedings of the International Conference on Information Systems and the European Conference on Information Systems -both ranked top-tier publication outlets by Willcocks et al (2008). In sum, we considered 21 journals and two conferences for our literature search, consisting of nine Information Systems journals, five in the area of Electronic Commerce, and seven in Marketing, as specified in Table 2.…”

Ranking International Business Institutions and Faculty Members Using Research Publication as the Measure

“…such studies, among others, include the ranking of (a) authors and universities publishing iB articles (Morrison and inkpen 1991;trevino et al 2010); (b) authors, institutions and discipline content of published articles in the Journal of International Business Studies (JiBs) between 1970(inkpen and Beamish 1994; (c) authors and disciplines of articles published in JIBS between 1984and 1993(chandy and Williams 1994; (d) international business schools based on the measure of faculty publication (Kumar and Kundu 2004); and (e) schools based on publication data between 1995 and 2004 for four leading international business journals (chan et al 2006). the role and importance of ranking studies is well documented in literature spanning a variety of disciplinary areas, from sociology (espeland and sauder 2007; Sauder and espeland 2009), logistics (carter et al 2009), Strategy (Baden-Fuller et al 2000), Finance (Zivney and Bertin 1992), economics (Grove and Wu 2007), Management (Devinney et al 2008;Pisani 2009;Wedlin 2007;Werner 2002), Marketing (caruana et al 2009;Linton 2004;Mitra and Golder 2008), information systems (Willcocks et al 2008), Education (Sweitzer and Volkwein 2009), Research Methods (Mills et al 2006), to International Business (Macharzina et al 2004;Macharzina et al 1993). in addition to their broad disciplinary appeal, ranking studies have consistently appeared in prestigious journals for a long period of time.…”

Information systems offshore outsourcing: managerial conclusions from academic research

“…It becomes evident that different authors have identified such journals as prestigious publications in the field of IS. By way of example, a comparison has been drawn between the rankings by Dibbern et al (2004), Katerattanakul et al (2005), Lowry, Romans and Curtis (2004), Peffers and Ya (2003) and Willcocks, Whitley and Avgerou (2008). The presence of the journal Information and Organization, despite being the only one which does not appear on the SSCI or SCI lists for 2010, is justified by the prestige that most of the aforementioned authors assign to it in terms of IS work publication.…”