Description
The Association for Information Systems’ College of Senior Scholars decided to expand their list of designated “premier journals” in our field from 8 to 11. What does this mean? How are these decisions being made? Who makes these decisions? We explore these questions with our good old friend Cathy Urquhart who has been a member of the task force that championed this decision. With her, we discuss politics in the information systems community, the governance of our community, and the question of how our journals and conferences could or should operate.
Episode Reading List
- AIS College of Senior Scholars. (2023). Senior Scholars’ List of Premier Journals. https://aisnet.org/page/SeniorScholarListofPremierJournals.
- Winter, S., Berente, N., Howison, J., & Butler, B. S. (2014). Beyond the Organizational ‘Container’: Conceptualizing 21st Century Sociotechnical Work. Information and Organization, 24(4), 250-269.
- Davison, R. (2023). AIS College of Senior Scholars (CSS). https://communities.aisnet.org/seniorscholars/home.
- Saunders, C., Chau, M., Mills, A., Pries-Heje, J., & Urquhart, C. (2020). Senior Scholars Journal Review Quality Survey Association for Information Systems. https://aisnet.org/page/SeniorScholarSurvey.
- Chartered Association of Business Schools (2021). Academic Journal Guide 2021. https://charteredabs.org/academic-journal-guide-2021/.
- Lowry, P. B., Moody, G. D., Gaskin, J., Galletta, D. F., Humpherys, S. L., Barlow, J. B., & Wilson, D. W. (2014). Evaluating Journal Quality and the Association for Information Systems Senior Scholars’ Journal Basket Via Bibliometric Measures: Do Expert Journal Assessments Add Value? MIS Quarterly, 37(4), 993-1012.
- Urquhart, C. (2023). CAIS Debate Section – What is the Future of AIS Conferences in Our Community? Posting on the AISWorld Listserv, 15 February 2023.
- Urquhart, C., Carte, T. A., & Heinzl, A. (2017). Time for Some Changes to ICIS? Reflections on our Highest-quality Conference. Communications of the Association for Information Systems, 41(8), 179-197.