TY - JOUR
T1 - Why the old world cannot publish? Overcoming challenges in publishing high-impact IS research
AU - Lyytinen, Kalle
AU - Baskerville, Richard
AU - Iivari, Juhani
AU - Te'Eni, Dov
N1 - Funding Information:
Community If low publishing productivity is seen as a critical issue that affects the long-term viability of the European IS research, it becomes by definition a European IS community issue. It would help to develop more systematic guidelines on IS Ph.D. education across Europe, and to build training initiatives for both Ph.D. students and junior faculty. Such guideline development and training could be developed as part of ECIS conferences, national and regional AIS chapters, or through separate funding from the European Union, research councils, etc. There are good models from Pan European initiatives in biology, economics, and physics. Finally, the European IS research community should actively reshape EU funding policies to recognize the values of publishing in top-level journals, to promote
PY - 2007/8
Y1 - 2007/8
N2 - We review the status of European publishing in high-impact Information System (IS) journals finding that the European publication record is disappointing. We consider popular explanations to this state of affairs and find them neither credible nor useful for improving the European record. We propose several constructive reasons for this including (1) the lack of appreciation of the article genre, (2) weak publishing cultures, (3) inadequate Ph.D. preparation for article publishing, (4) weak reviewing practices, (5) poorer command of research methods, (6) poorer understanding of the reviewing protocols, and (7) institutional shaping of research funding in Europe. We formulate several recommendations to affect these causes at the individual, institutional, journal, and European community level.
AB - We review the status of European publishing in high-impact Information System (IS) journals finding that the European publication record is disappointing. We consider popular explanations to this state of affairs and find them neither credible nor useful for improving the European record. We propose several constructive reasons for this including (1) the lack of appreciation of the article genre, (2) weak publishing cultures, (3) inadequate Ph.D. preparation for article publishing, (4) weak reviewing practices, (5) poorer command of research methods, (6) poorer understanding of the reviewing protocols, and (7) institutional shaping of research funding in Europe. We formulate several recommendations to affect these causes at the individual, institutional, journal, and European community level.
KW - IS
KW - Publication genres
KW - Publishing
KW - Research communities
KW - Reviewing
UR - http://www.scopus.com/inward/record.url?scp=35548983410&partnerID=8YFLogxK
U2 - 10.1057/palgrave.ejis.3000695
DO - 10.1057/palgrave.ejis.3000695
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AN - SCOPUS:35548983410
SN - 0960-085X
VL - 16
SP - 317
EP - 326
JO - European Journal of Information Systems
JF - European Journal of Information Systems
IS - 4
ER -