Why a Conference Ranking
Research productivity in Information Systems is measured by journal publication. The field’s rankings count articles in a small set of leading journals, and tenure and promotion decisions largely follow the same standard. Conferences sit outside this system of measurement entirely: no ranking counts them.
Conferences do work for the discipline that journals cannot. They are where fresh ideas surface first, where PhD students present and find their footing, where conversations between research communities actually develop, and where scholars build the networks their later work grows from. Publishing there is a real contribution to the field, and it deserves to be visible.
Thousands of scholars and hundreds of universities contribute to the field’s conferences year after year without ever appearing in a ranking. This site is a first step toward making that contribution visible. It counts every paper published in the proceedings of AMCIS, ECIS, PACIS and ICIS, using the standard counting methods of research productivity studies, over a rolling five-year window.
About the Curator
This ranking is created and maintained by Ali Ahmed, Assistant Professor of Information Systems in the Stephenson Department of Entrepreneurship and Information Systems at Louisiana State University. Questions, corrections, and suggestions are welcome at aliahmed@lsu.edu.