Profiling the research productivity of tenured information systems faculty at U.S. institutions

MIS Quarterly: Management Information Systems

Volumn 35, Issue 1, 2011, Pages 1-15

  Dean, Douglas L ^a   Lowry, Paul Benjamin ^a   Humpherys, Sean ^b  

^a BRIGHAM YOUNG UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF ARIZONA   (United States)

Author keywords

Carnegie classification; Faculty productivity; Publication benchmarks; Publication standards; Scientometrics; Tenure standards

Indexed keywords

INFORMATION SYSTEMS; INFORMATION USE; PRODUCTIVITY; PUBLISHING;

ACADEMIC CAREERS; COMPUTER SCIENCE AND ENGINEERINGS; JOURNAL PUBLICATION; PUBLICATION RATES; RESEARCH INSTITUTIONS; RESEARCH PRODUCTIVITY; SCIENTOMETRICS; STRATEGIC INFORMATION SYSTEMS;

INFORMATION MANAGEMENT;

EID: 80051722346     PISSN: 02767783     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.2307/23043486     Document Type: Article

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