The Supreme Council of Science, Research and Technology (SCSRT) of Iran which is headed by the president and consists of main decision makers of the country in research area including several ministers has ordered the development of a national current research information system, code named SEMAT, in the country in 2006. The main reasons of such system are to help top decision makers for resear...

This paper examines the role played by context and subjectivity in the epistemology of information systems research. Different assumptional frameworks underlying the opposing worldviews of positivism and interpretivism explain the differing treatments of context and subjectivity within these two frames of reference and thus the different criteria for quality that can be applied to each. The dis...

Slovenia’s Current Research Information System (SICRIS) currently hosts 86,443 publications with citation data from 8,359 researchers working on the whole plethora of social and natural sciences from 1970 till present. Using these data, we show that the citation distributions derived from individual publications have Zipfian properties in that they can be fitted by a power law P(x) ∼ x, with α ...

In this paper we argue for information systems researchers to participate in policy engagement as a form of research that is both rigorous and relevant. We illustrate this argument by drawing on our own experiences of the policy engagement process, namely an ongoing analysis of the UK Government’s proposals to introduce biometric identity cards. As a result of our experiences we reflect on the ...

In this paper, we argue that information researchers should use images as a source of data. The information systems field is overwhelmingly visual in nature. Not only is the Internet crammed with images, but also almost every detail observed during fieldwork in different research settings can be captured in the form of digital images. Yet, we rarely engage with those images. Except for sporadic...

The studies are selected from all articles published in nine premium journals that regularly publish scholarly research on IT use: MIS Quarterly, Information Systems Research, Organization Science, Management Science, Administrative Science Quarterly, Decision Sciences, Journal of Management Information Systems, IEEE Transactions on Engineering Management, and Database for Advances in Informati...

In recent years several prototypes and concepts of location-based tourist guides have been developed. Only a few of them have been evaluated by actual users. This article presents the results of a field study in which the user acceptance of two kinds of mobile information systems for tourists was evaluated by means of a questionnaire survey and interviews. The first mode (Planner) provides tour...