Article production changes at the ISJ and their consequences

IF 6.5 2区 管理学 Q1 INFORMATION SCIENCE & LIBRARY SCIENCE
Robert M. Davison
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In late 2023, Wiley, the publisher of the ISJ, informed the editor in chief that from volume 34 no. 3 (May 2024) onwards, changes would be introduced to the way accepted papers are assigned to an issue. Prior to May 2024, the editor in chief selected articles to be included in an issue and communicated this information to a production editor, who then compiled the issue and published it. The editor would also write up an editorial introduction to that issue, with a commentary on a topic relevant to the IS community and an introduction to the articles published in that issue. Although it was common practice for the articles that had been accepted longer ago (and that had therefore been in Early View for a longer time) to be published first, articles accepted for special issues were generally held back until all articles for that special issue had been accepted. The time lag between the acceptance of the first article accepted for a special issue and the last article for the same special issue could be quite considerable, in the order of 12–24 months. Such held back articles would still be visible in Early View, with their own DOI, which meant that they could be cited accurately.

Starting from May 2024, a new arrangement is in place. First, control over which articles are included in which issue is transferred from the editor in chief to the production editor. The production editor will still select the articles that have been in Early View longest, but will not hold back articles accepted for special issues. Instead, these special issue articles will appear in regular issues, mixed in with other regular articles. Since, at the time of writing, there is a considerable backlog of special issue articles in Early View, I expect that the first couple of issues to appear following this change will consist entirely of special issue articles, but from multiple special issues. In order to preserve the integrity of the special issue, a new feature called a virtual issue will be created. Virtual issues, which will be accessible via the standard menu on the journal's home page, will then capture all the articles accepted for the special issue. Virtual issues will also have an editorial introduction, created by the guest editors of the special issue. This editorial introduction will have its own DOI and so will be citable in its own right. Indeed, it will also be possible to curate accepted articles that were not published as part of a special issue into a new virtual issue on the basis of their collective contribution to a particular part of the discourse in IS research. This may bring together articles published many years apart.

Given the above changes to the management of issue production, the institution of writing an editorial to introduce the articles published in each regular issue will cease and the nature of an editorial at the ISJ will also change. Although we will no longer use editorials to introduce the articles published in an issue, we will still publish editorials as standalone reflections or commentaries on contemporary themes relevant to the IS discipline by the editors of the journal. While some journals permit anyone to write an editorial, we will reserve the editorial for the editors (including Senior and Associate editors, and the members of the editorial advisory board) of the ISJ. Several editorials of this new type are already in progress and will appear in the ISJ in due course.

国际期刊协会的文章制作变化及其后果
2023 年末,《国际期刊》的出版商 Wiley 通知主编,从第 34 卷第 3 期(2024 年 5 月)起,将改变将录用论文分配到各期的方式。在 2024 年 5 月之前,主编会选择要收录到期刊中的文章,并将这些信息传达给制作编辑,然后由制作编辑汇编期刊并出版。编辑还将为该期撰写编辑导言,对与信息系统界相关的主题进行评论,并对该期发表的文章进行介绍。虽然通常的做法是先发表较早被录用的文章(因此在《早期视角》中停留的时间较长),但为特刊录用的文章一般要等到该特刊的所有文章都被录用后才能发表。特刊接受第一篇文章与同一特刊接受最后一篇文章之间的时间间隔可能相当长,约为 12-24 个月。从 2024 年 5 月起,新的安排开始实施。从2024年5月起,新的安排将开始实施。首先,主编将控制哪些文章被收录到哪一期中,转而由制作编辑来控制。制作编辑仍将选择在《早期视界》上发表时间最长的文章,但不会保留已接受的特刊文章。相反,这些特刊文章将出现在定期刊物中,与其他定期刊物的文章混杂在一起。由于在撰写本报告时,《早期视界》中积压了大量特刊文章,我预计在这一变化之后出版的前几期将完全由特刊文章组成,但会来自多个特刊。为了保持特刊的完整性,将创建一个名为虚拟特刊的新功能。虚拟特刊可通过期刊主页的标准菜单访问,届时将收录特刊接受的所有文章。虚拟特刊还将有特邀编辑撰写的编辑导言。该编辑导言将有自己的 DOI,因此本身可以引用。事实上,还可以将未作为特刊一部分发表的录用文章,根据其对信息和通信技术研究某一特定领域的集体贡献,编辑成新的虚拟特刊。鉴于上述期刊出版管理方面的变化,为介绍每期定期出版的文章而撰写社论的制度将停止,《国际信息系统学报》社论的性质也将发生变化。虽然我们将不再使用社论来介绍每期发表的文章,但我们仍将发表社论,作为期刊编辑对与信息系统学科相关的当代主题的独立思考或评论。有些期刊允许任何人撰写社论,而我们将把社论保留给《国际信息系统学报》的编辑(包括高级编辑、副主编和编辑顾问委员会成员)。几篇新类型的社论已在撰写中,并将适时刊登在《国际期刊》上。
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来源期刊
Information Systems Journal
Information Systems Journal INFORMATION SCIENCE & LIBRARY SCIENCE-
CiteScore
14.60
自引率
7.80%
发文量
44
期刊介绍: The Information Systems Journal (ISJ) is an international journal promoting the study of, and interest in, information systems. Articles are welcome on research, practice, experience, current issues and debates. The ISJ encourages submissions that reflect the wide and interdisciplinary nature of the subject and articles that integrate technological disciplines with social, contextual and management issues, based on research using appropriate research methods.The ISJ has particularly built its reputation by publishing qualitative research and it continues to welcome such papers. Quantitative research papers are also welcome but they need to emphasise the context of the research and the theoretical and practical implications of their findings.The ISJ does not publish purely technical papers.
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