About This Journal
Editors
| Editor-in-Chief: | Dorothy E. Leidner, Baylor University USA |
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| Past Editors-in-Chief: | Suprateek Sarker, University of Virginia, USA | Shirley Gregor, The Australian National University, Australia |
| Kalle Lyytinen, Case Western Reserve University, USA | |
| Sirkka Jarvenpaa, University of Texas, Austin, USA | |
| Phillip Ein-Dor, Tel Aviv University, Israel |
About JAIS
The Journal of the Association for Information Systems (JAIS), the flagship journal of the Association for Information Systems, publishes the highest quality scholarship in the field of information systems. It is inclusive in topics, level and unit of analysis, theory, method and philosophical and research approach, reflecting all aspects of Information Systems globally. The Journal promotes innovative, interesting and rigorously developed conceptual and empirical contributions and encourages theory based multi- or inter-disciplinary research.
The 3-year impact factor of JAIS in 2019 is 2.957. The 5-year impact factor of JAIS in 2019 is 4.644.
For Authors
- A wide readership, as the journal is freely accessible online by members of AIS (also available pay per view to non-members).
- Relatively short cycle times and short times to publication.
- Developmental reviewing approach, with an editorial board of eminent scholars engaging with authors on promising papers.
- An annual Theory Development Workshop at the International Conference on Information Systems.
Significant Publications
Each year since 2006, the Senior Scholars of AIS have given
a Best Paper award to the top papers published in the IS discipline
during the previous year. A list of all AIS papers receiving honors from the AIS Senior Scholars
may be found on the
Awards and Honors page on the AIS website.