ISJ has a number of Special Issues, typically around one per year. Special Issues are proposed and edited by Guest Editors appointed by the Editor-in-Chief. They focus on one topic or theme and have a number of papers devoted to various aspects of that topic. The Guest Editors usually provide an extended editorial putting the topic and the papers in context. Special Issues have proved to be very successful and popular with ISJ readers and have been highly cited.
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Editor-in-Chief
Robert Davison, e-mail: isrobert@cityu.edu.hk
ISJ Editorial Office - Jack Patterson
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Welcome to the Editor's Website for the ISJ
The purpose of this site is to provide information from the Editors to our readers, authors, potential authors, deans, etc. about the Information Systems Journal (ISJ) over and above that provided on the publishers website which also contains ISJ Table of Contents, access to sample papers and full-text access.Please follow the links of the above menu which provide detailed information and answers to most questions. We hope you find this website useful. Please contact us with any comments you have.
Editor-in-Chief: Robert Davison
ISJ Indicators
This page just provides a brief overview of some key quality indicators for the ISJ. Please see the details in the various menus above, in particular here.
- ISJ is the premier, predominantly qualitative, information systems journal
- ISJ is in the AIS basket of six top information systems journals
- ISJ has an impact factor of 4.267 (2017 - latest)
- ISJ is 'the' truly international information systems journal
- ISJ was ranked 1st for author experience
- ISJ will respond within 2 weeks indicating if your paper is out of scope or unsuitable
ISJ Free Issue
Wiley provides free access to all the ISJ Editorials and some articles. Click here to access them. Click on a particular volume to see which articles are free - they are marked with an open padlock.
Wiley also provide a whole sample issue free. This is usually issue 1 of the current year but check the Wiley ISJ website, linked above, and see 'Browse free sample issue' in the list on the right hand side.
ISJ Editorials
Wiley provides free access to all the ISJ Editorials.
The Editorials contain information about the content of the ISJ Issue to which they refer but they also contain much more. The Editor often uses them to communicate with the readership and in particular potential authors. So they are well worth looking at.
For example an Editorial for 2019 (29.3) asked the question "For Whom Do We Write?" and another 2020 (30.1) asked "Which journal characteristics best invite submissions?". Such analysis, apart from being interesting and informative in general terms, provides insights into the journal, its ethos, and niche and is a good way of understanding what the Editorial Team are looking for to keep the journal relevant.
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ISJ News
The 2018 impact factor (announced mid June 2019) for ISJ is 3.286. See past ISJ impact factors and the Editor’s comment on impact factors here. The next impact factor (2019) will not be available until around end of June 2020.
As of 1st January 2017 Wiley have announced a change to the Editors-in-Chief of the Information Systems Journal (ISJ). Eileen Trauth and Philip Powell have stepped down and Robert Davison will now become the sole Editor-in-Chief. ISJ would like to thank Eileen and Philip for all their hard work and help in contributing to the ongoing success of the journal over the past years.
ISJ is included in the ‘basket’ of 8 top IS journals in the field, identified by the AIS (Association of Information Systems) Senior Scholars, click here for details. Also see other indicators of ISJ quality and recognition here, and reasons to publish in ISJ here.
Latest Papers in EarlyView
EarlyView is Wiley’s online repository for papers accepted but not yet published in an issue. The latest EarlyView papers are detailed below. For full details and access to all of the ISJ please go to the publishers website – see Wiley link in Weblinks in the next column.
Abstract
This research focuses on information technology (IT) project managers’ growth mindset concerning IT project management (PM) ability and investigates how such a mindset can promote escalation of commitment to a troubled IT project. Specifically, we suggest that the growth mindset of IT PM ability promotes prospective achievement motivation and can lead IT project managers to escalate their commitment to an IT project despite negative feedback suggesting that the project may not be completed successfully. Through a series of three experiments with 351 IT project managers, we obtained consistent support for our hypotheses suggesting that the growth mindset of IT PM ability promotes IT project escalation and this effect is partially mediated by anticipated regret about project failure and anticipated likelihood of project success. In addition, in the three experiments we found that when the project involves an unfamiliar technology the indirect effect of the growth mindset of IT PM ability through anticipated likelihood of project success is stronger than when the project involves a familiar technology.
From panopticon to heautopticon: A new form of surveillance introduced by quantified?self practicesAbstract
In this research, we investigate whether quantified?self (QS) technologies, based on wearable technologies, enable individuals’ empowerment or lead to their disempowerment. To understand better the potential paradoxical effects of QS technologies, we adopt a critical approach by mobilising the panopticon metaphor from Foucault’s original writings and more precisely, his four core concepts, namely power, knowledge, body and space. Relying on a qualitative study that consists of the analysis of 12 interviews, 14?142 messages extracted from online forums, and 30 blogs, we explore the discourses associated with the usage of QS technologies. Our findings indicate that self?quantification has ambivalent, conflicting effects—13 empowering and 11 disempowering—spanning the dimensions of power, knowledge, body and space. Our research also shows the emergence of micro?surveillance of oneself, which we name the heautopticon. The implications of this critical research also offer possibilities for change by discussing social and individual emancipation.
Predatory journals: A sign of an unhealthy publish or perish game?Information Systems Journal, EarlyView. Source
