Publishing?

I notice the the term "publishing" comes up in discussions of teaching and\or pursuing a PhD. I would appreciate it if someone could explain how to publish at this level in the MIS field. Is there a specific list of publications that would qualify for PhD publication credit?

 

Probably a journal or a publication such as the Communications of the ACM or ACM Queue.

 

Each academic professional society will have a professional journal. I am not in the MIS filed, so I cannot give a specific journal. I recommend you ask local professors which professional groups they belong to and which professional journals they take. Each journal will list its publication guidelines. By reviewing the journals you can also get a flavor of what is expected for publication.

 

If you're already doing a PhD or an MSc, the journals in your field should have already cropped up in your reading. If not, look at the universities and departments you'd like to attend (and the ones where you'd like to work) and see where the faculty, postdocs and postgrads are publishing.

Remember, any decent PhD programme will encourage you to publish and will provide you with a structured introduction to the process, working up from presenting to your department's away day, through conference presentations and publications and then on to peer-reviewed publications.

Angela

 

There are several "ranking" lists published for various disciplines. For MIS - go to:

]http://www.isworld.org/csaunders/rankings.htm

For other disciplines go to:

]http://www.geocities.com/iipopescu/Jo_rankingb.htm

Regards - Andy

 

Depends on your program

You need to determine what qualifies as publishing for your program. Sometimes, publishing in the conference proceedings can qualify. You need to verify this and then start looking for conferences which offer this and/or publishing in associated journals. There are many conference's which offer varying degrees of difficulty for acceptance/

 

I think that often times professors are working on their own research things and their graduate students become parts of that. And that can mean co-author credits on papers.

http://www.physics.sfsu.edu/~laser/pubs/

 

Thanks for the replies. This situation doesn't apply to me. A work associate is considering going the PhD route and I mentioned what I learned here about the PhD process. Since we are clueless regarding what constitutes publishing I thought I would ask here.