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Management Information Systems Quarterly

Management Information Systems Quarterly, referred to as MIS Quarterly, is an online-only quarterly peer-reviewed academic journal that covers research in management information systems and information technology. It was established in 1977 and is considered a major periodical in the information systems industry. An official journal of the Association for Information Systems, it is published by the Management Information Systems Research Center at the University of Minnesota. The current editor-in-chief is Susan Brown, University of Arizona.

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Management Information Systems Quarterly
DisciplineInformation science, management
LanguageEnglish
Edited bySusan Brown
Publication details
History1977-present
Publisher
Management Information Systems Research Center (United States)
FrequencyQuarterly
5.430 (2017)
Standard abbreviations
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ISO 4Manag. Inf. Syst. Q.
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CODENMISQDP
ISSN0276-7783 (print)
2162-9730 (web)
LCCN85652044
JSTORmisquarterly
OCLC no.805082941
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Management Information Systems Quarterly, referred to as MIS Quarterly, is an online-only quarterly peer-reviewed academic journal that covers research in management information systems and information technology. It was established in 1977 and is considered a major periodical in the information systems industry.12 An official journal of the Association for Information Systems,3 it is published by the Management Information Systems Research Center at the University of Minnesota. The current editor-in-chief is Susan Brown, University of Arizona.4

The journal had the highest impact factor (4.978) of all peer-reviewed academic journals in the field of business from 1992 to 2005.5 According to the Journal Citation Reports, the journal has a 2015 impact factor of 5.384.6

Editors-in-chief

Past editors-in-chief in order of succession have been:

  • Gary W. Dickson (1977-1982)
  • William R. King (1983-1985)
  • Warren McFarlan (1986-1988)
  • James Emery (1989-1991)
  • Blake Ives (1992-1994)
  • Robert Zmud (1995-1998)
  • Allen Lee (1999-2001)
  • Ron Weber (2002-2004)
  • Carol Saunders (2005-2007)
  • Detmar Straub (2008-2012)
  • Paulo Goes (2013-2015)
  • Arun Rai (2016-2020)
  • Andrew Burton-Jones (2021-2023)
  • Susan Brown (2024-Present)
See also

See also

References

References

  1. "Introduction - MIS Journal Rankings". Association for Information Systems. Archived from the original on 2010-01-05. Retrieved 2008-09-01.
  2. Ferratt, T.W.; Gorman, M.F.; Kanet, J.J.; Salisbury, W.D. (2007). "IS Journal Quality Assessment Using the Author Affiliation Index". Communications of the Association for Information Systems. 19: 710–724. doi:10.17705/1CAIS.01934.
  3. Galletta, D. (October 2007). "President's Message". Association for Information Systems. Archived from the original on 2014-08-14.
  4. "Editor-in-Chief". misq.org. Retrieved 2026-01-08.
  5. Mangematin, V.; Baden-Fuller, C. (2008). "Global Contests in the Production of Business Knowledge: Regional Centres and Individual Business Schools" (PDF). Long Range Planning. 41: 117–139. doi:10.1016/j.lrp.2007.11.005.
  6. "Management Information Systems Quarterly". 2015 Journal Citation Reports. Web of Science (Science ed.). Thomson Reuters. 2015.
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