Increasing the Number of A+ Published Papers in the Information Systems Discipline: Improving the Journal Review Process

Abstract

A recent article reported on an analysis of the proportion of faculty publishing articles in premier business journals (i.e., the ratio of authors of premier business journal articles to total faculty of a discipline) across the disciplines of accounting, finance, management, marketing, and information systems for the years 1994 through 2003 (Valacich et al. 2006). This analysis revealed that over this period the management discipline had on average the highest proportion of faculty publishing in premier journals (12.7 authors per 100 management faculty), followed by finance (9.4 authors per 100 faculty), marketing (9.2 authors per 100 faculty), IS (5.5 authors per 100 faculty), and accounting (4.8 authors per 100 faculty). A further analysis found that IS was on a downward trend, having the lowest proportion in 2003. ....