SEMINAR

Department of Management Information Systems

PUBLISHING IN TOP MANAGEMENT INFORMATION SYSTEMS JOURNALS: 

CHALLENGES, STRATEGIES & ADVICE

 by

Prof. Izak Benbasat

Sauder Scholl of Business

University of British Columbia, Vancouver, Canada

Room: Hisar Campus, B105

Summary:

Publishing in the top Management Information Systems (MIS) journals (and most elite business journals) is becoming increasingly difficult. Several lengthy review cycles are sometimes needed to publish a paper, and the refereeing standards have become much more demanding compared to those a decade ago. At the same time, there are more academics trying to publish in these few elite journals, including European scholars in recent years.

My talk will begin by providing some statistics on the number of academics who manage to publish in these outlets. Then, I will pose the following questions: i) what are the criteria you should use to decide where to publish your work? and, ii) is publishing in the so-called elite journals the only way to justify the quality of your research?

Next, as the main content of my talk, I will discuss the steps one goes through in getting his/her paper published, with my advice about what to do at each of these steps.  While the talk will focus on MIS journals, the strategies and advice discussed also are applicable to publishing one's work in other top scholarly journals. 

Bio of Izak Benbasat:

Izak Benbasat, Fellow of the Royal Society of Canada

Professor and CANADA Research Chair in Information Technology Management

Sauder School of Business, University of British Columbia, Canada

B.A. (1969) in Business Administration (Robert College, Istanbul);

Master of Science (1971) and Ph.D. (1974) in Management Information Systems (MIS) (University of Minnesota); Doctorat Honoris Causa (2009) Université de Montréal.

His current research interests in IT utilization include: 1) investigating the methods for customer service provision on the Internet (business-to-consumer, business-to-business, and citizen-to-government); 2) evaluating product recommendation agents used in electronic commerce, including those for social shopping networks, and 3) designing tools to help reduce risk and deception in electronic commerce. This work is supported by grants from the Social Sciences and Humanities Research Council of Canada, the Natural Sciences and Engineering Research Council of Canada, and the University of British Columbia Hampton Grants.

Professor Benbasat was ranked as the most influential MIS researcher in terms of publications cited by others (Lowry et al, Communications of the Association for Information Systems Volume 20, 2007), and as the most prolific author in terms Human-Computer Interaction research in MIS during 1990-2008 (Zhang, P., et al. 2009 AIS Transactions on Human-Computer Interaction, (1:3)). For the years 2000-2010, as well as 1990-2010, he is the author with the highest number of publications both in Information Systems Research and in the MIS Quarterly (see http://vvenkatesh.com/isranking/), the two best journals in information systems.

Professor Benbasat is currently on the editorial boards of the Journal of Management Information Systems and Information Systems Journal. He was editor-in-chief of Information Systems Research, the Editor of the Information Systems & Decision Support Systems Department of Management Science and a Senior Editor of the MIS Quarterly.

Professor Benbasat received INFORMS Information Systems Society Distinguished Fellow Award in 2009. He was given the LEO Award for Lifetime Exceptional Achievements in Information Systems from the Association for Information Systems (AIS) in 2007 and became a Fellow of AIS in 2002. He was elected a Fellow of the Academy of Humanities and Social Sciences of the Royal Society of Canada in 2005.  He was appointed CANADA Research Chair in Information Technology Management in 2001, and reappointed in 2008 for a seven-year term. He received the University of British Columbia Killam Research Prize in 1998 and the University of British Columbia Killam Teaching Prize in 1996. He was CANFOR Professor of Management Information Systems from 1991 to 2001. He was invited to spend the 1985-6 academic year at the Harvard Business School as a Marvin Bower Fellow, and was Shaw Visiting Professor at the National University of Singapore in 2000.

For additional information please see: http://mis.sauder.ubc.ca/izak-benbasat/