MIS Quarterly receives top rankings (612) 624-8770 University of Minnesota Business Research Journal Rates Highest Impact MINNEAPOLIS (July 11, 2008) — MIS Quarterly, a University of Minnesota journal published by the Management Information Systems Research Center (MISRC) at the Carlson School of Management, with sponsorship from the Association for Information Systems (AIS), received top rankings in the 2007 Journal Citation Reports® (JCR) produced by Thomson Scientific. JCR lists MIS Quarterly in three journal categories: Management, Computer Science/Information Systems, and Information Science/Library Science. MIS Quarterly’s ranking as the highest impact journal in all three of its reporting categories confirms the journal’s contribution to scholarly discourse. First published in 1977, MIS Quarterly is owned by the University of Minnesota, and published by the Carlson School of Management’s Management Information Systems Research Center. In the three categories of JCR in which MIS Quarterly is ranked, it competes with journals published by the Academy of Management, Association for Computing Machinery, Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers, and the Institute for Operations Research and the Management Sciences. “While MIS Quarterly has long been considered the top journal in management and information sciences, this is a wonderful and independent confirmation of the quality and importance of the journal,” says Professor Alok Gupta, chair of Information and Decision Sciences Department at the Carlson School and publisher of the journal. MIS Quarterly strives to enhance and communicate knowledge concerning the development of IT-based services, management of information technology resources, and the economics and use of information technology with managerial and organizational implications. JCR evaluates academic journal quality based on citations received by articles in a given journal by journals in the ISI Web of Knowledge citation index. JCR then assigns each journal an “impact factor” rating, based on the citations received by papers published in the last two years in a given journal. Overall, the management category contains 81 journals, the information science/library science category contains 56 journals, and the computer science/information system category contains 92 journals. The Management Information Systems Research Center (MISRC) is a non-profit organization in the Carlson School at the University of Minnesota. The MISRC was founded in 1968 by pioneers in the MIS field as part of MIS curriculum development at the Carlson School. ### |