Paper Info
Title
Evaluating Journal Quality and the Association for Information Systems Senior Scholars' Journal Basket Via Bibliometric Measures: Do Expert Journal Assessments Add Value?
Abstract
Information systems journal rankings and ratings help scholars focus their publishing efforts and are widely used surrogates for judging the quality of research. Over the years, numerous approaches have been used to rank IS journals, approaches such as citation metrics, school lists, acceptance rates, and expert assessments. However, the results of these approaches often conflict due to a host of validity concerns. In the current scientometric study, we make significant strides toward correcting for these limitations in the ranking of mainstream IS journals. We compare expert rankings to bibliometric measures such as the ISI Impact Factor™, the h-index, and social network analysis metrics. Among other findings, we conclude that bibliometric measures provide very similar results to expert-based methods in determining a tiered structure of IS journals, thereby suggesting that bibliometrics can be a complete, less expensive, and more efficient substitute for expert assessment. We also find strong support for seven of the eight journals in the Association for Information Systems Senior Scholars' "basket" of journals. A cluster analysis of our results indicates a two-tiered separation in the quality of the highest quality IS journals--with MIS Quarterly, Information Systems Research, and Journal of Management Information Systems belonging, in that order, to the highest A+ tier. Journal quality metrics fit nicely into the sociology of science literature and can be useful in models that attempt to explain how knowledge disseminates through scientific communities.
Year
DOI
Venue
2013
10.25300/MISQ/2013/37.4.01
Management Information Systems Quarterly
Keywords
Field
DocType
information systems research,journal quality metrics,bibliometric measure,expert assessment,information systems senior scholars,information systems senior scholar,social network analysis metrics,management information systems,citation metrics,expert ranking,highest quality,expert journal assessment,journal basket
Data science,Information system,Management information systems,Ranking,Computer science,Citation,Social network analysis,Knowledge management,Bibliometrics,Scientometrics,Impact factor
Journal
Volume
Issue
ISSN
37
4
0276-7783
Citations 
PageRank 
References 
30
0.84
41
Authors
7
Name
Order
Citations
PageRank
Paul Benjamin Lowry1164381.81
Gregory D. Moody219310.35
James Gaskin311111.52
Dennis F. Galletta41757141.06
Sean L. Humpherys5813.89
Jordan B. Barlow61064.84
David W. Wilson7786.36