Open AccessMeasuring Researcher-Production in Information Systems
Author(s) -
Cecil Eng Huang Chua,
Lan Cao,
Karlene Cousins,
Detmar W. Straub
Publication year - 2002
Publication title -
journal of the association for information systems
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 1.877
H-Index - 78
ISSN - 1536-9323
DOI - 10.17705/1jais.00026
Subject(s) - convergent validity , publishing , sampling frame , ranking (information retrieval) , production (economics) , psychology , coding (social sciences) , computer science , data science , sociology , information retrieval , social science , political science , psychometrics , economics , clinical psychology , demography , population , macroeconomics , law , internal consistency
While many studies have assessed IS researcher-production, most have focused on either ranking IS journals or assessing prolific researchers using a restricted time frame and a small “basket” of journals (i.e., those journals selected for sampling). We found no research that has assessed the IS specificity of journals (i.e., the suitability of journals for publishing IS research) nor any that evaluated IS researcher-production measures. Based on a coding of over 26,000 articles and more than 1,900 authors, this study attempts such an evaluation by (1) determining the rate of publication of IS researchers in 58 journals perceived by at least one IS institution as IS specific, (2) profiling prolific and typical IS researchers using descriptive statistics, (3) evaluating the convergent validity of various researcher-production measures, (4) assessing the reliability of these researcher-production measures by varying baskets of
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