In pursuit of a detailed overview of IS literature related to ethical theories and AI, we have adopted the following systematic approach to compile a comprehensive list.
We initiated our systematic categorization with the identification of journals listed under the “Wirtschaftsinformatik” category in the VHB JOURQUAL 3, which laid the groundwork for our core list of journals. We prioritized the inclusion of journals from the senior scholars’ “basket of 11,” a compilation of premier journals, recognizing their significant influence (Lowry et al., 2013); notably, Information Systems Research (ISR), Management Information Systems Quarterly (MISQ), and Journal of Management Information Systems (JMIS) are also featured in the acclaimed Financial Times Top 50 Journals (“FT 50”) list.
Subsequently, we examined the journals outlined by Walstrom and Hardgrave (2001), incorporating those with a “pure IS” rating of 0.8 or above into our collection. Many were already present in the VHB list, and we supplemented it with any that were absent. Our next step involved evaluating journals with a “hybrid IS” score of 0.6 or higher as used by Walstrom and Hardgrave (2001), noting those that appeared in the VHB list and taking their impact factor into account.
Additionally, we aligned our findings with the framework proposed by Levy and Ellis (2006), assimilating journals that corresponded with the VHB rankings of A+, A, and B and were concurrent with either one of the aforementioned lists into our final sample.
Moreover, we manually incorporated the journals DATA BASE for Advances in Information Systems and Communications of the Association for Information Systems (CAIS), which, despite their VHB ranking of C, are well-regarded in the IS community.
In parallel, we applied a similar approach to conference proceedings. By cross-referencing the compilations by Walstrom and Hardgrave (2001) and Levy and Ellis (2006), we included those proceedings that were recognized by both sources.
| Journal Title | “Basket of 11” | VHB JOURQUAL 3 | FT50 List | Levy & Allis 2006 | Walstrom & Hardgrave Pure IS > 0.8 | Walstrom & Hardgrave Hybrid > 0.6 |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Information Systems Research (ISR) | True | A+ | True | True | True | |
| Management Information Systems Quarterly (MISQ) | True | A+ | True | True | True | |
| Journal of Management Information Systems | True | A | True | True | True | |
| Journal of the Association for Information Systems (JAIS) | True | A | ||||
| Journal of Information Technology | True | A | ||||
| Information Systems Journal (ISJ) | True | A | ||||
| The Journal of Strategic Information Systems | True | A | True | |||
| European Journal of Information Systems (EJIS) | True | A | True | True | ||
| Decision Support Systems (DSS) | True | B | ||||
| Information & Management | True | B | True | True | ||
| Information and Organization | True | B | ||||
| Mathematical Programming | A | |||||
| INFORMS Journal on Computing (JOC) | A | True | ||||
| SIAM Journal on Computing | A | |||||
| Journal of the ACM (JACM) | B | |||||
| Decision Sciences | B | True | ||||
| Computers and Operations Research | B | |||||
| IEEE Transactions on Engineering Management | B | True | ||||
| Business & Information Systems Engineering (BISE) (früher: Wirtschaftsinformatik WI) | B | |||||
| ACM Transactions on Information Systems | B | True | True | |||
| International Journal of Electronic Commerce (IJEC) | B | |||||
| ACM Transactions on Management Information Systems | B | True | ||||
| ACM Computing Surveys | B | |||||
| Journal of Computational Finance | B | |||||
| Artificial Intelligence | B | True | ||||
| Group Decision and Negotiation | B | |||||
| ACM SIGMIS Database | B | |||||
| IEEE Transactions on Software Engineering | B | True | True | |||
| Data & Knowledge Engineering | B | |||||
| Communications of the ACM (CACM) | B | True | True | |||
| Information Systems (IS) | B | True | ||||
| MIS Quarterly Executive | B | |||||
| Journal of Decision Systems | B | |||||
| Information Systems Frontiers | B | |||||
| Electronic Markets (em) | B | |||||
| ACM Transactions on Computer-Human Interaction | B | True | ||||
| Human-Computer Interaction | C | True | ||||
| Communications of the Association for Information Systems (CAIS) | C | True | ||||
| DATA BASE for Advances in Information Systems | True |
| Conference Proceedings Title | VHB JOURQUAL 3 | Walstrom & Hardgrave | Levy & Allis 2006 | Include |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Proceedings of the International Conference on Information Systems (ICIS) | A | True | True | True |
| Proceedings of the European Conference on Information Systems (ECIS) | B | True | ||
| Proceedings of the Hawaii International Conference on System Sciences (HICSS) | C | True | True | True |
| Proceedings of the Pacific Asia Conference on Information Systems (PACIS) | C | True | ||
| Proceedings of the Americas Conference on Information Systems (AMCIS) | D | True | True | True |