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Learn tips and pitfalls for publishing research in top journals. Explore value of contributions, writing styles, approaches, focus areas, goals, and reviewer roles to enhance impact and avoid common mistakes.
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ECIS 2006 Panel: Publishing high impact IS research in top journals: Tips and traps -or-
Values: Contribution • Contribution: Great Leap versus Incremental Advance • Impact: Long convoluted papers that must first prove (boring) assumptions before making the real (interesting) point.
Values: Writing • Writing: Poetic versus Prosaic • Impact: The text is entertaining and interesting on its own, but clouds arguments with elaborate phrasing and shifting terminology.
Values: Approach • Approach: Philosophy versus Science • Impact: Deep understanding and insights are difficult to compress into succinct terms, generalizations from these require problematic abstractions.
Values: Focus • Focus: Knowledge versus Tenure and Promotion • Impact: Selection of research questions without wide appeal while overlooking widely relevant, simple, unrecognized, and unexpressed facts.
Values: Goal • Goal: Product versus Package • Impact: Writing past the reviewers (my first audience is only three or five folks); or writing to the reviewers; and reaching either the critical, knowledgeable reader; or the generally prepared reader; but not both.
Values: Reviewer’s Role • Reviewer Role: Destructive versus Constructive • Impact: A lack of receptiveness and empathy for the author yielding reviews that are brief pronouncements of the shortcomings and problems without thought for directions. • There is no learning for the reviewer.
ECIS 2006 Panel: Publishing high impact IS research in top journals: Tips and traps