A Ranking List for Information Systems Journals: Addendum March 2008

It is appropriate to provide an update of the revised Ranking list and the process undertaken to arrive at the updated list.

Abstract

In 2007 we published a paper describing the approach the Australian Council of Professors and Heads of Information Systems (ACPHIS) had used in developing a ranked list of information systems journals. In late 2007 more details became available on the DEST requirements relating to journal and conference rankings for the Research Quality Framework (RQF). This prompted a response from the ACPHIS community and a review of the first list. As our original paper was written and published prior to the review and further work has been undertaken on the development of the list, it is therefore appropriate to provide an update of the revised Ranking list and the process undertaken to arrive at the updated list. Although the RQF in its current form has been abandoned, for the community maintaining a Ranking list is still important, and may be used in a revised version of the RQF in the near future. This addendum describes the process undertaken to arrive at the new extended ranking list.