Howto: AIS - "Basket of Eight"
In Information Systems, the leading organization is the Association for Information Systems (AIS). This organization has combined the leading journals in a so-called AIS “Basket of Eight”. This collection of TOP journals is also called the “Senior Scholars' Basket of Journals”.
Table 1 contains these journals [1]:
|
Journal |
Known Notation |
Abbreviation |
ISSN |
|---|---|---|---|
|
European Journal of Information Systems (until 2017) European Journal of Information Systems | Taylor & Francis Online (since 2018) |
European Journal of Information Systems |
EJIS |
0960-085X |
|
Information System Journal |
ISJ |
1350-1917 |
|
|
Information System Research |
ISR |
1047-7047 |
|
|
Journal of AIS |
JAIS |
1536-9323 |
|
|
Journal of Information Technology |
JIT |
0268-3962 |
|
|
Journal of MIS |
JMIS |
0742-1222 |
|
|
Journal of Strategic Information Systems |
JSIS |
0963-8687 |
|
|
MIS Quarterly |
MISQ |
0276-7783 |
Further information under: https://aisnet.org/?SeniorScholarBasket.
How to search the Basket of Eight?
Example: Search with Scopus:
- Specifying the search term—here “Digital Transformation”
- Specify what exactly should be searched—here title, abstract, and keywords this works with Scopus with “TITLE-ABS-KEY”
- Perform search with the following so called query string:
TITLE-ABS-KEY ("Digitale Transformation”) AND (ISSN(0960-085X) OR ISSN(1350-1917) OR ISSN(1047-7047) OR ISSN(1536-9323) OR ISSN(0268-3962) OR ISSN (0742-1222) OR ISSN(0963-8687) OR ISSN(0276-7783)) - Save results
- View results
- If necessary, refine the search, e.g. by adding more search words, and restart at 1. until relevant literature is found.
Figure 1 illustrates the search on www.scopus.com.
Example: Search with EBSCOhost:
EBSCOhost works only conditionally with ISSN, therefore modify the query string.
((((((((JN “MIS Quarterly”)) OR (JN “European Journal of Information Systems”)) OR (JN “Information Systems Journal”)) OR (JN “Information Systems Research”)) OR (JN “Journal of the Association for Information Systems”)) OR (JN “Journal of Information Technology (Palgrave Macmillan)”) OR (JN “Journal of Information Technology (Routledge, Ltd.)”) OR (JN “Journal of Information Technology & Economic Development”)) OR (JN “Journal of Management Information Systems”)) OR (JN “MIS Quarterly”)
EBSCOhost also uses other parameters for narrowing down the search
((TI “digital transformation”) OR (AB “Digital transformation”) OR (KW “digital transformation”))
Figure 2 illustrates the procedure for the database EBSCOhost.
References
[1] AIS 2016: Senior Scholars' Basket of Journals, Assoziation for Information Systems (AIS), https://aisnet.org/?SeniorScholarBasket, accessed at 07/10/2016.