Dear colleagues
Like many journals across the sciences, MIS Quarterly is engaged in several steps to support open science. This is just a short reminder and update regarding several of these initiatives.
Reminder:
The MISQ Special Issue on Registered Reports proposals are due soon - July 1, 2023. Please see details here: https://misq.umn.edu/call_for_papers/registered-reports. We are excited to test the merits of the Registered Report model and we look forward to your proposals.
Updates:
MISQ's transparency policy began in 1/1/2022 (https://misq.umn.edu/research-transparency). We are pleased to report that our first paper with transparency materials was published last month. The paper and materials are available here: https://misq.umn.edu/data-is-the-new-protein-how-commonwealth-of-virginia-built-digital-resilience-muscle-and-rebounded-from-opioid-and-covid-shocks.html; and https://aisel.aisnet.org/misq/vol47/iss1/17/. Our congratulations to the authors, Monica Chiarini Tremblay, Rajiv Kohli, and Carlos Rivero!
- Review practice transparency:
The counterpart of asking authors to make their research transparent is to ask the journal to be transparent about its own practices. Even though MISQ has made review packages available in its reviewer-development workshops for years, we began an 'open reports' policy in 2022 to formally release the review history for at least one paper per year. Last year, we awarded MISQ's Paper of the Year for 2021 to "Is AI Ground Truth Really True? The Dangers of Training and Evaluating AI Tools Based on Experts' Know-What" by Sarah Lebovitz, Natalia Levina, and Hila Lifshitz-Assaf. With the agreement of the authors, reviewers, and editors, the entire review and revision history of the paper can be downloaded from the paper's webpage: https://misq.umn.edu/is-ai-ground-truth-really-true-the-dangers-of-training-and-evaluating-ai-tools-based-on-experts-know-what.html. We hope other researchers (particularly doctoral students) will benefit from seeing how papers evolve during the review process. Our thanks to all involved.
These are all just small steps forward in open science. We look forward to taking more steps together with the community.
Best wishes,
Andrew.
Andrew Burton-Jones
Professor of Business Information Systems
UQ Business School
The University of Queensland
Editor-in-Chief, MIS Quarterly
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Andrew Burton-Jones
University of Queensland
Brisbane QLD
(604) 827-3260
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