Managing and Writing the Research Papers

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Managing and Writing the Research Papers
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Carol Hsu National Taiwan University
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Why publication?
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• Part of knowledge development and dissemination
  within the academic community
• Publishing requirements for tenure
• 2As or 3As
• Baskets of Journals
• No. of SSCI papers

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Quality vs. Quantity?
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• A question about your profile?
• A lot of papers with average quality, but never
  being cited.
• One or two signature papers, but it would take a
  long (long.) time to develop

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Information Systems Research (ISR) and MIS
Quarterly 2002 2007

• 539 (unique) authors published in ISR or/and MISQ
• 297 Total of Articles in MISQ and ISR
• 130 articles were published in ISR by 269
  different authors
• 167 articles were published in MISQ by 333
  different authors.

(Source Bebansat, 2008)
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(Source Bebansat, 2008)
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Writing papers for Top journals

• Aiming too high?
• If you dont try, you will never have a chance to
  get there!
• How?
• Develop a good research topic
• Find good collaborators who have experiences in
  publishing in these top journals

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Experience sharing

• A window of opportunity!
• Division of tasks- theory, literature review,
  empirical data collection
• Recommending the AEs and reviewers

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Thank you!Any Questions Comments?