scholarly journals Models for Tracking the Publishing Activity of Researchers

2020 ◽  
pp. 123-139
Keyword(s):  
Information Systems ◽  
Research Methodology ◽  
Scientific Information ◽  
Research Area ◽  
Publication Activity ◽  
Original Research ◽  
Regional Research ◽  
Research Information ◽  
Scientometric Indicators

The article presents the results of a study of a variety of national and regional practices for registering and tracking the publication activity of researches and their citation indicators in dif­ferent countries and regions. The case study is based on the necessity of establishing objective scientometric indicators that are independent from the research area, region, language, and place of publication. A study of twelve national and regional research information systems has been conducted. The article presents the original research methodology, as well as a developed system or criteria used in performing a compara­tive analysis of foreign practices. The results of this analysis of foreign practices are used as the basis of researching and developing a national platform used for access and analysis of Bul­garian scientific information.

Applied Multi-Case Research in a Mixed-Method Research Project

2009 ◽  
pp. 120-139 ◽  
Author(s):  
Slinger Jansen
Keyword(s):  
Information System ◽  
Information Systems ◽  
Mixed Method ◽  
Research Area ◽  
Mixed Method Research ◽  
Research Project ◽  
Case Research ◽  
Systems Research ◽  
Information Systems Research

Even though information systems is a maturing research area, information systems case study reports generally lack extensive method descriptions, validity defense, and are rarely conducted within a multicase research project. This reduces the ability to build theory in information systems research using case study reports. In this chapter we offer guidelines, examples, and improvements for multicase studies. If information system researchers stick to these guidelines, case study reports and papers will get published more often, improving the rapidly maturing research area of information systems.

Method for Assessing the Thematic Proximity of Scientific Magazines

2020 ◽  
Vol 11 (6) ◽  
pp. 335-341
Author(s):  
A. S. Kozitsyn ◽  
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S. A. Afonin ◽  
D. A. Shachnev ◽  
◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
Information Systems ◽  
Thematic Analysis ◽  
Full Text ◽  
Scientific Information ◽  
Scientific Activity ◽  
Software Implementation ◽  
Scientometric Indicators ◽  
Activity Assessment ◽  
Text Information

The paper describes an algorithm for determining the thematic proximity of magazines. The results of its software implementation can be used to solve the following urgent tasks: clasification of the scientometric indicators values in the evaluation of scientific activity; assessment of the main trends in the development of the main scientific areas; determination of the relationships between data in information systems for constructing ontologies and defining safety rules within the framework of the ABAC model; creation of effective and convenient mechanisms for searching for scientific information. A feature of the presented algorithm is the use of the co-authorship graph for constructing the thematic proximity metric and the ability to process magazines in different languages, which is difficult to implement for other thematic analysis algorithms based on the analysis of full-text information. The software implementation of the presented algorithm is used in practice in the scientometric system "ISTINA".

Research in Information Technology Service Management (ITSM) (2000 – 2010)

2014 ◽  
Vol 6 (4) ◽  
pp. 73-91 ◽  
Author(s):  
Narges Shahsavarani ◽  
Shaobo Ji
Keyword(s):  
Information Technology ◽  
Information Systems ◽  
Research Method ◽  
Service Management ◽  
Research Area ◽  
Future Research ◽  
Research Information ◽  
Individual Level ◽  
Technology Service ◽  
Information Technology Service

In information systems (IS) research, Information Technology Service Management (ITSM) has become a popular research area among IS and management researchers as a result of industry push and the development and advancement of research in service sciences. From academic perspective, a growing number of papers have been published addressing many aspects of ITSM issues. This paper presents the results based on a study of comprehensive review of publications in ITSM from 2000 to 2010. A total of 152 research papers from leading information systems (IS) journals and conference proceedings were identified, categorized and analyzed from the perspectives of reference discipline, theoretical foundation, research method, level of analysis, and research topic. The findings suggest five primary conclusions: 1) there is generally a lack of theoretically driven researches; 2) the field is still improving, with a growing number of published papers dealing with the development of concepts, constructs, models, methods and implementations for theory formalization; 3) ITSM performance issues, justifications, and IT Infrastructure Library (ITIL) topics are among the most popular topics of research; 4) ITSM researchers do not seem to consider research at an individual level; 5) the most popular research method was the conceptual orientation. Recommendations for future research in ITSM are presented and articulated.

scholarly journals Enhancing E-Health Information Systems with Agent Technology

2009 ◽  
Vol 2009 ◽  
pp. 1-13 ◽  
Author(s):  
Minh Tuan Nguyen ◽  
Patrik Fuhrer ◽  
Jacques Pasquier-Rocha
Keyword(s):  
Information System ◽  
Information Systems ◽  
Value Added ◽  
Health Information Systems ◽  
Research Area ◽  
Information Organization ◽  
Agent Technology ◽  
Healthcare Organizations ◽  
Routine Tasks

Agent Technology is an emerging and promising research area in software technology, which increasingly contributes to the development of value-added information systems for large healthcare organizations. Through the MediMAS prototype, resulting from a case study conducted at a local Swiss hospital, this paper aims at presenting the advantages of reinforcing such a complex E-health man-machine information organization with software agents. The latter will work on behalf of human agents, taking care of routine tasks, and thus increasing the speed, the systematic, and ultimately the reliability of the information exchanges. We further claim that the modeling of the software agent layer can be methodically derived from the actual “classical” laboratory organization and practices, as well as seamlessly integrated with the existing information system.

scholarly journals Evaluating Academic Journals without Impact Factors for Collection Management Decisions

2002 ◽  
Vol 63 (6) ◽  
pp. 562-577 ◽  
Author(s):  
Juris Dilevko ◽  
Esther Atkinson
Keyword(s):  
Scientific Information ◽  
Medical Science ◽  
Impact Factors ◽  
Collection Management ◽  
Original Research ◽  
Academic Journals ◽  
Management Decisions ◽  
Journal Citation Reports

Evaluation of academic journals for collection management decisions is made all the more difficult when some journals do not have impact factors as assigned by the Institute for Scientific Information and its Journal Citation Reports. Focusing on science, technology, and medicine journals, this study presents a method of evaluating such nonranked journals. The method is based on finding a comparator journal to the nonranked journal, distinguishing between original research articles and other article types, tracing citations to these two target journals in citing journals, comparing the quality of the citing journals that cite both target journals, and describing the contextual typology of the citations to the target journals. A case study of two medical science journals, the nonranked Annals of the Royal College of Physicians and Surgeons of Canada and the comparator ranked Canadian Family Physician, illustrates the method. This method can help in determining the value of a nonranked journal in relation to a ranked journal.

CONNECTING CLOSED WORLD RESEARCH INFORMATION SYSTEMS THROUGH THE LINKED OPEN DATA WEB

2012 ◽  
Vol 22 (03) ◽  
pp. 345-364 ◽  
Author(s):  
BRIGITTE JOERG ◽  
IVAN RUIZ-RUBE ◽  
MIGUEL-ANGEL SICILIA ◽  
JAN DVOŘÁK ◽  
KEITH JEFFERY ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
Information Systems ◽  
Scientific Information ◽  
Critical Role ◽  
Open Data ◽  
Graph Model ◽  
Linked Open Data ◽  
Relational Model ◽  
Research Information ◽  
Closed World ◽  
High Flexibility

Research Information Systems (RIS) play a critical role in the sharing of scientific information and provide researchers, professionals and decision makers with the required data for their activities. Existing RIS standards have proposed data models to represent the main entities for storage and exchange. These account for the needs of multiple stakeholders through a high flexibility based on a formal syntax and declared semantics, but for techno-historical reasons they assume the completeness of information within system boundaries. The distributed nature of research information across systems calls for a mechanism to link the local entities from the closed world of concrete RISs with other possibly underspecified entities exposed through other means, as for example, the Linked Open Data Web. By transformation of a relational model into an open graph model, differences between the two system paradigms are revealed. The main principles and techniques for exposing CERIF-driven relational data as linked data will be provided as a first step demonstrating effective RISs interconnection through the linked open data (LOD) Web.

scholarly journals Enhancing the Rigor of Qualitative Research: Application of a Case Methodology to Build Theories of IT Implementation

2015 ◽  
Author(s):  
Guy Paré
Keyword(s):  
Qualitative Research ◽  
Information Systems ◽  
Medical Informatics ◽  
Methodological Approach ◽  
Case Study Research ◽  
Research Information ◽  
Case Research ◽  
It Implementation ◽  
Starting Point

This paper presents and illustrates how the approach proposed by Eisenhardt (1989) for building theories from intensive qualitative research, more precisely case study research, can help information systems and medical informatics researchers understand and explain the inherently dynamic nature of IT implementation. The approach, which adopts a positivist view of research, relies on past literature and empirical data as well as on the insights of the researcher to build incrementally more powerful theories. We describe in some detail how this methodology was applied in a particular case study on IT implementation in the health care context and how the use of this approach contributed to the discovery of a number of new perspectives and empirical insights. Furthermore, we provide insights into the many choices that a researcher must make when adopting this methodological approach. Overall, using Eisenhardt's approach as a starting point, our objective is to provide a rigorous, step-by-step methodology for using case studies to build theories within the information systems and medical informatics fields. We provide several insights to the nature of case research, information on and concrete examples of specific techniques and tools, and guidance on how to improve intensive case research.

IS Change Agents in Practice in a US-Chinese Joint Venture

2006 ◽  
pp. 331-352
Author(s):  
Dorothy G. Dologite ◽  
Robert J. Mockler ◽  
Quinghua Bai ◽  
Peter F. Viszhanyo
Keyword(s):  
Information Systems ◽  
Joint Venture ◽  
Change Agent ◽  
Change Agents ◽  
Research Area ◽  
Is Implementation ◽  
Packaged Software ◽  
Case Based

This chapter presents a case study that documents how information systems (IS) principals in China strategically shifted to different change agent roles to accommodate various IS implementation contingencies in the organization. The case concerns a US-Chinese joint venture, located in China. The change agent models hypothesized by Markus and Benjamin (l996) serve as a lens to interpret the case. Based on observations of how these roles emerged in different phases of implementing packaged software, a meta-category called “adaptor” is offered to visualize what the data revealed and to contribute to this emerging research area. Implications for practitioners and researchers are addressed.

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