Top MIS Journals: Missions, Fit and the Publication Process

1. Top MIS Journals: Missions, Fit and the Publication Process MIS Colloquium September 25, 2009 Management Information Systems

2. Purpose • To help junior faculty and PhD students understand what types of papers to send to which journals • Slides include background information on the mission of the journal, number of articles published, types of papers published, and acceptance rates where possible • We need those who have experience publishing with the particular journal to speak about their experience • We’ll cover as many of the A+ and A journals as time permits • So join us on a path of discovery — one that will help you decide where to send your next paper!

3. MIS Quarterly • The editorial objective of the MIS Quarterly is the enhancement and communication of knowledge concerning the development of IT-based services, the management of IT resources, and the use, impact, and economics of IT with managerial, organizational, and societal implications.  Professional issues affecting the IS field as a whole are also in the purview of the journal. • Number of Articles Published in 2008: 36 • Acceptance Rate: 7.5% • Review Process: Peer review, double blind • Editorial Board

4. MIS Quarterly – Current issue Issues and Opinions • Why Break the Habit of a Lifetime?  Rethinking the Roles of Intention, Habit, and Emotion in Continuing Information Technology Use - Ana Ortiz de Guinea and M. Lynne Markus Research Essays • Minimizing Method Bias Through Programmatic Research - Andrew Burton-Jones • Estimating the Effect of Common Method Variance:  The Method-Method Pair Technique with an Illustration from TAM Research - Rajeev Sharma, Philip Yetton, and Jeff Crawford Research Articles • Web Strategies to Promote Internet Shopping:  Is Cultural-Customization Needed? - Choon Ling Sia, Kai H. Lim, Kwok Leung, Matthew K. O. Lee, Wayne Wei Huang, and Izak Benbasat • The Integrative Framework of Technology Use:  An Extension and Test - Sung S. Kim • Exploring Human Images in Website Design:  A Multi-Method Approach - Dianne Cyr, Milena Head, Hector Larios, and Bin Pan

5. MIS Quarterly – Current issue Research Notes • Investigating User Resistance to Information Systems Implementation:  A Status Quo Bias Perspective - Hee-Woong Kim and Atreyi Kankanhalli • Response to Jones and Karsten, "Giddens's Structuration Theory and Information Systems Research - Marshall Scott Poole • Divided by a Common Language?  A Response to Marshall Scott Poole - Matthew R. Jones and Helena Karsten Special Issue on Information Systems Offshoring, Part II • The Evolution of Risk in Information Systems Offshoring:  The Impact of Home Country Risk, Firm Learning, and Competitive Dynamics - Eugene D. Hahn, Jonathan P. Doh, and Kraiwinee Bunyaratavej • Offshore Information Systems Project Success:  The Role of Social Embeddedness and Cultural Characteristics - Arun Rai, Likoebe M. Maruping, and Viswanath Venkatesh

6. Information Systems Research • Information Systems Research (ISR) seeks to advance knowledge about the effective and efficient utilization of information technology by individuals, groups, organizations, society, and nations for the improvement of economic and social welfare.  • The journal is receptive to a wide variety of phenomena and topics related to the design, management, use, valuation, and impacts of information technologies at different levels of analysis (i.e., individuals, groups, firms, networks, societies, and nations).  • Number of Articles Published in 2008: 25 • Acceptance Rate: 15% • Review Process: Peer review, double blind • Editorial Board

7. Information Systems Research - Current Issue • Weighing the Benefits and Costs of Flexibility in Making Software: Toward a Contingency Theory of the Determinants of Development Process Design-(Research Commentary)Robert Austin and LeeDevin • Agility From First Principles: Reconstructing the Concept of Agility in Information Systems Development - Kieran Conboy • A Co-Evolving Systems Approach to the Organization of Agile Software Development- Xiaofeng Wang and Richard T. Vidgen  • Control of Flexible Software Development under Uncertainty- Michael Harris, Rosann Collins, and AlanHevner • A Control Theory Perspective on Agile Methodology Use and Changing User Requirements- LikoebeMaruping, Viswanath Venkatesh, and Ritu Agarwal • ExploringAgility in Distributed Information Systems Development (ISD) Teams: An Interpretive Study in An Offshoring ContextSaonee Sarker and Suprateek Sarker • Crossing Spatial and Temporal Boudaries in Globally Distributed Projects: A Relational Model of Coordination DelayJonathon Cummings, J. Alberto Espinosa, and Cynthia Pickering

8. Management Science • Its scope includes articles that address management issues with tools from foundational fields such as computer science, economics, mathematics, operations research, political science, psychology, sociology, and statistics, as well as cross-functional, multidisciplinary research that reflects the diversity of the management science professions. • Its interest extends to managerial issues in diverse organizational forms, such as for-profit and nonprofit firms, private and public sector institutions, and formal and informal networks of individuals. We welcome theoretical, empirical, prescriptive, and descriptive contributions. • Number of Articles Published in 2008: 133 (8 in IS) • Acceptance Rate: 9.96% • Review Process: Peer review, double blind • Editorial Board

9. Management Science - Current Issue • Are We Wise About the Wisdom of Crowds? The Use of Group Judgments in Belief Revision- Albert E. Mannes • Price-Dependent Profit Sharing as a Channel Coordination Device Øystein Foros, Kåre P. Hagen, Hans Jarle Kind  • Unspanned Stochastic Volatility in Affine Models: Evidence from Eurodollar Futures and Options- Ruslan Bikbov, Mikhail Chernov •  Relative Performance Compensation, Contests, and Dynamic Incentives - Pablo Casas-Arce, F. Asís Martínez-Jerez •  How Interfirm Alliance Announcements Change the Stock Market Valuation of Rivals - Joanne E. Oxley, Rachelle C. Sampson, Brian S. Silverman Arms Race or Détente? •  Product Variety and Endogenous Pricing with Evaluation Costs J. Miguel Villas-Boas •  Optimal Price and Product Quality Decisions in a Distribution Channel Xiaowei Xu •  Responding to Unexpected Overloads in Large-Scale Service Systems Ohad Perry, Ward Whitt

10. Journal of Management Information Systems This journal is intended to provide an integrated view of the entire field of MIS. It accepts empirical and interpretive submissions that make a significant novel contribution to the field of management information systems. Such contributions may present: • experimental, survey-based, or theoretical research of the structure, development, or utilization of information systems, relevant to the progress of the field; • paradigmatic designs and applications; • analyses of informational policy making in the organizational, national, or international setting; • Investigations of social and economic issues of organizational computing. • Number of Articles Published in 2008: 40 • Acceptance Rate: <10% • Review Process: Peer review, double blind • Editorial Board

11. Journal of Management Information Systems-Current Issue • Special Section: Structure and Complexity in Sociotechnical Systems Jay NunamakerJr. , Ralph Sprague and Robert O. Briggs • A Meta- Theory for Understanding Information Systems Within Sociotechnical Systems Robert P. Bostrom , Saurabh Gupta and Dominic Thomas • Decentralization in Wikipedia Governance Andrea Forte , Vanessa Larco and Amy Bruckman • Engaging Group E-Learning in Virtual Worlds Katherine Franceschi , Ronald M. Lee , Stelios H. Zanakis and David Hinds • Chaos Theory as a Lens for Interpreting Blogging Xitong Guo , Douglas R. Vogel , Zhongyun Zhou , Xi Zhang and Huaping Chen • Managing Knowledge in Light of Its Evolution Process: An Empirical Study on Citation Network--Based Patent Classification Xin Li , Hsinchun Chen , Zhu Zhang , Jiexun Li and Jay NunamakerJr. • The CMC Interactivity Model: How Interactivity Enhances Communication Quality and Process Satisfaction in Lean-Media Groups Paul Benjamin Lowry , Nicholas C. RomanoJr. , Jeffrey L. Jenkins and Randy W. Guthrie • Leveraging Crowdsourcing: Activation-Supporting Components for IT-Based Ideas Competition Jan Marco Leimeister , Michael Huber , Ulrich Bretschneider and Helmut Krcmar

12. European Journal Of Information Systems • The European Journal of Information Systems provides a distinctive European perspective on the theory and practice of information systems for a global audience. We encourage first rate research articles by academics, but also case studies and reflective articles by practitioners. We provide a critical view on technology, development, implementation, strategy, management and policy. • Number of Articles Published in 2008: 52 • Acceptance Rate: ? • Review Process: Peer review, double blind • Editorial Board

13. European Journal Of Information Systems- Current Issue Guest Editorial: • ‘Lots done, more to do': the current state of agile systems development research Pekka Abrahamsson, Kieran Conboy and Xiaofeng Wang Original Articles: • Assessing the relative contribution of the facets of agility to distributed systems development success: an Analytic Hierarchy Process approach - Saonee Sarker, Charles L Munson, Suprateek Sarker and Suranjan Chakraborty •  Exploring agile values in method configuration- Fredrik Karlsson and Pär Ågerfalk •  Simulating mixed agile and plan-based requirements prioritization strategies: proof-of-concept and practical implications- Daniel Port and Tung Bui • A framework for adapting agile development methodologies - Lan Cao, Kannan Mohan, Peng Xu and Balasubramaniam Ramesh • Acceptance of software process innovations – the case of extreme programming - George Mangalaraj, RadhaKanta Mahapatraand Sridhar Nerur •  Role of collective ownership and coding standards in coordinating expertise in software project teams- Likoebe M Maruping, Xiaojun Zhang and Viswanath Venkatesh • The role of project management in ineffective decision making within Agile software development projects- John McAvoy and Tom Butler

14. Journal of The Association Of Information Systems • The Journal of the Association for Information Systems (JAIS), the flagship research journal of the Association for Information Systems, publishes the highest quality scholarship in the field of information systems. • JAIS is inclusive in scope and covers all aspects of Information Systems and Information Technology. The Journal publishes rigorously developed and forward looking conceptual and empirical contributions. The Journal encourages multidisciplinary and nontraditional approaches • Number of Articles Published in 2008: 32 • Acceptance Rate: <12% • Review Process: Peer review, double blind • Editorial Board

15. Journal of The Association Of Information Systems • Using Social Network Analysis to Analyze Relationships Among IS Journals6- Greta L. Polites and Richard T. Watson • Information Flow Impediments in Disaster Relief Supply Chains8- Jamison M. Day, Iris Junglas, and Leiser Silva • Using Visual Representations of Data to Enhance Sensemaking in Data Exploration Tasks2- Jeff Baker, Donald Jones, and Jim Burkman • Assessing Scholarly Influence: Using the Hirsch Indices to Reframe the Discourse4- Duane Truex, Michael Cuellar, and Hirotoshi Takeda • Management Implications in Information Systems Research: The Untold Story2- Neil C. Ramiller and Brian T. Pentland • Guidelines for Empirical Evaluations of Conceptual Modeling Grammars4- Andrew Burton-Jones, Yair Wand, and Ron Weber

16. Information Systems Journal • The Information Systems Journal (ISJ) is an international journal promoting the study of information systems. Articles are welcome concerning research, practice, experience, current issues and debates. • The ISJ encourages submissions that reflect the wide and interdisciplinary nature of the subject and articles that integrate technological disciplines with social, contextual and management issues, based on research using appropriate research methods. • Quantitative research papers are also welcome but they need to emphasize the context of the research and the theoretical and practical implications of their findings. The ISJ does not publish purely technical papers. • Number of Articles Published in 2008: 32 • Acceptance Rate: • Review Process: Peer review, double blind • Editorial Board

17. Information Systems Journal - Current Issue Editorial • Editorial (p 459-460)David Avison, Guy Fitzgerald, Philip Powell Original Articles • Conflict and identity shape shifting in an online financial community (p 461-478) - John Campbell, Gordon Fletcher, Anita Greenhill • A temporal perspective of the computer game development process (p 479-497)- Patrick Stacey, Joe Nandhakumar • Organizational knowledge transfer through creation, mobilization and diffusion: a case analysis of InTouch within Schlumberger (p 499-522)Ashley Braganza, Ray Hackney, Satrijo Tanudjojo

18. ACM Computing Surveys • The primary purposes of the ACM Computing Surveys are to present new specialties and help practitioners and researchers stay abreast of all areas in the rapidly evolving field of computing. • The ACM Computing Surveys publishes surveys of and tutorials on areas of computing research or practice. Contributions should conform to generally accepted practices for scientific papers with respect to organization and style. • Number of Articles Published in 2008: 12 • Acceptance Rate: • Review Process: Peer review, double blind • Editorial Board

19. ACM Transactions • ACM, the world’s largest educational and scientific computing society, delivers resources that advance computing as a science and a profession. ACM provides the computing field's premier Digital Library and serves its members and the computing profession with leading-edge publications, conferences, and career resources.

20. Communications of The ACM • Communications of the ACM magazine as a platform to present and debate various technology implications, public policies, engineering challenges, and market trends. • Communications of the ACM has high quality editorial content and a steadfast dedication to advancing the arts, sciences, and applications of information technology. • Number of Articles Published in 2008: 140 • Acceptance Rate: • Review Process: Peer review, double blind • Editorial Board

21. Communications of the AIS • Communications of the Association for Information Systems (CAIS) is intended to foster the free flow of ideas within the IS community; • Its emphasis is on originality, importance, and cogency of ideas; it is also a vehicle for case studies, survey articles, tutorials, and other materials of general interest to the IS community • Number of Articles Published in 2008: • Acceptance Rate: • Review Process: Peer review, double blind • Editorial Board

22. Database • We seek to provide an accessible, flexible, and timely forum for information on both well-researched topics and those less common, perhaps leading-edge topics which may not yet have found their way into the literature. We welcome the opportunity to publish materials that are controversial or which may as yet be untested. • Oldest continuously published MIS journal • Number of Articles Published in 2008: 20 • Acceptance Rate: 11% • Review Process: Peer review, double blind • Editorial Board

23. Decision Support Systems • Decision Support Systems welcomes contributions on the concepts and operational basis for Design support systems, techniques for implementing and evaluating DSSs, DSS experiences, and related studies. • In treating Design Support Systems topics, manuscripts may delve into, draw-on, or expand such diverse areas as artificial intelligence, cognitive science, computer supported cooperative work, data base management, decision theory, economics, linguistics, management science, mathematical modeling, operations management psychology, user interface management systems, and others. • Number of Articles Published in 2008: • Acceptance Rate: ? • Review Process: Peer review, not blind • Editorial Board

24. Harvard Business Review • The goal of Harvard Business Review is to be the source of the best new ideas for people creating, leading, and transforming business. • HBR's articles cover a wide range of topics that are relevant to different industries, management functions, and geographic locations. They focus on such areas as leadership, organizational change, negotiation, strategy, operations, marketing, finance, and managing people. • Number of Articles Published in 2008: 110 • Acceptance Rate: • Review Process: • Editorial Board

25. Human-Computer Interaction • Human-Computer Interaction(HCI) publishes articles that combine research theory and methods in computer science, cognitive science, social science, and design. HCI articles are the most extensive, in-depth investigations of important research issues in the field. • HCI also publishes articles with novel perspective and methods. Special Issues in HCI are definitive collections on critical research areas in the field • Number of Articles Published in 2008: 10 • Acceptance Rate: • Review Process: Peer review, not blind • Editorial Board

26. IEEE • These publications of IEEE Societies provide the means by which the member keeps abreast of the advances in specific fields. • Their mission is to record and disseminate new scientific and technical information for present and future members of the profession.

27. Information & Management • Information & Management serves managers, professionals, database administrators and senior executives of organizations which design, implement and manage Information Systems Applications. • The major aims are: • To collect and disseminate information on new and advanced developments in the field of applied information systems;• To provide material for training and education in administrative data systems;• To encourage further progress in information systems methodology and applications;• To cover the range of information system development and usage in their use of managerial policies, strategies, and activities for business, public administration, and international organizations; • Number of Articles Published in 2008: 62 • Acceptance Rate: • Review Process: Peer review, not blind ? • Editorial Board

28. Information and Organizations Information and Organizations seeks • To publish original scholarly articles on the relationships between information technologies and social organization. • To advance established and emerging theoretical arguments through the publication of papers that review empirical research and provide directions for future research and theory development. The aim is to provide a forum that brings together innovative, reflective, and rigorous scholarship. • Number of Articles Published in 2008: • Acceptance Rate: • Review Process: Peer review ? • Editorial Board

29. Information Systems • Information Systems publishes articles concerning the design and implementation of languages, data models, algorithms, software and hardware for information systems.Subject areas include data management issues as presented in the principal international database conferences (e.g. ACM SIGMOD, ACM PODS, VLDB and EDBT) as well as data-related issues from the fields of data mining, information retrieval, natural language processing, internet data management, visual and audio information systems, scientific computing, and organizational behavior. • Number of Articles Published in 2008: 33 • Acceptance Rate: • Review Process: Peer review, ? • Editorial Board

30. Information Technology and People • Information technology and people (ITP) is constantly innovative in its approach, settings and topics. It is progressively international in its scope of authors, readers and research settings and has always been interdisciplinary and open to multiple methods and views for exploring the intricate and complex relationship between technology and social forms. • Number of Articles Published in 2008: 20 • Acceptance Rate: 16.8 • Review Process: ? • Editorial Board

31. International Journal of Electronic Commerce Electronic commerce is the sharing of business information, maintaining business relationships, and conducting business transactions by digital means over telecommunications networks. The Journal accepts empirical and interpretive submissions that make a significant novel contribution to this field. Such contributions may present : • Experimental, theoretical, or survey-based research, relevant to the progress of electronic commerce • Paradigmatic designs and applications • Investigation of organizational, societal, and international issues of electronic commerce • Number of Articles Published in 2008: 20 • Acceptance Rate: • Review Process: Peer review • Editorial Board

32. Journal of Database Management • The Journal of Database Management (JDM) publishes original research on all aspects of database management, systems analysis and design, and software engineering. • The primary mission of JDM is to be instrumental in the improvement and development of theory and practice related to information technology and management of information resources. The journal is targeted at both academic researchers and practicing IT professionals. • Number of Articles Published in 2008: 19 • Acceptance Rate: • Review Process: Peer review, double blind • Editorial Board

33. Journal of Information Technology • The aim of the Journal of Information Technology (JIT) is to provide academically robust papers, research, critical reviews and opinions on the organizational, social and management issues associated with significant information-based technologies. • JIT focuses on new research addressing technology and the management of IT, including strategy, change, infrastructure, human resources, sourcing, system development and implementation, communications, technology developments, technology futures, national policies and standards. • The journal will publish work from all disciplinary, theoretical and methodological perspectives. • Number of Articles Published in 2008: • Acceptance Rate: • Review Process: Peer review • Editorial Board

34. Journal of Strategic Information Systems • The Journal of Strategic Information Systems focuses on the management, business and organizational issues associated with the introduction and utilization of information systems as a strategic tool, and considers these issues in a global context. • The emphasis is on the incorporation of IT into organizations' strategic thinking, strategy alignment and management of change issues. • Number of Articles Published in 2008: 16 • Acceptance Rate: • Review Process: Peer review • Editorial Board

35. Journal of the ACM • The Journal of the ACM (JACM) aims to provide coverage of the most significant work going on in computer science, broadly construed. Publishes original research papers of lasting value in computer science. To be accepted, a paper must be judged to be truly outstanding in its field and to be of interest to a wide audience. They are particularly interested in work at the boundaries, both the boundaries of sub disciplines of computer science and the boundaries between computer science and other fields. • Number of Articles Published in 2008: • Acceptance Rate: • Review Process: • Editorial Board

36. MISQ Executive • MISQ Executive (MISQE) invites authors to submit papers based on in-depth research that provide rich stories, unique insights, and useful conceptual frameworks for information systems practice. target audience includes both practitioners and researchers -- so that MISQE can stimulate ongoing discussions at the intersection of research and practice -- but the primary focus is research that is immediately relevant and useful for practice.  • Number of Articles Published in 2008: 16 • Acceptance Rate: • Review Process: Peer review • Editorial Board

37. Sloan Management Review • MIT Sloan Management Review aims to be the most trusted source of useful and innovative ideas for business leaders, in print and online. • The journal bridges the gap between management research and practice, evaluating and reporting on new research to help readers identify and understand significant trends in management • Sloan Management Review seeks manuscripts that offer new research and insights about important management topics. • Number of Articles Published in 2008: • Acceptance Rate: 20% • Review Process: Peer review • Editorial Board