Editorial Board Diversity at the Basket of Eight Journals : A Report to the College of Senior Scholars

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Original languageEnglish
Article number30
Pages (from-to)236-247
Journal / PublicationCommunications of the Association for Information Systems
Volume48
Online published8 Apr 2021
Publication statusPublished - Apr 2021

Abstract

At the 2019 International Conference on Information Systems (ICIS), the College of Senior Scholars appointed a committee to investigate diversity in the editorial boards of their Basket of Eight journals. Editorial board diversity signals that a journal welcomes and includes all authors. The committee compared the gender, regional and ethnic diversity of the editorial boards to that of AIS members in the Academic membership category. This comparison showed that the editorial boards overall had fewer female members, more members from Region 1, and fewer from Region 3 than one would reasonably expect. Furthermore, there were more editorial board members of Indian ancestry than one would expect, while several other ethnicities appeared on editorial boards in smaller numbers than one would expect, in comparison to AIS Academic members. The individual journals also differed a great deal among themselves with respect to these diversity criteria. Regrettably, every journal fell below what one would reasonably expect with respect to either gender, regional, or ethnic diversity. Based on these findings, we make recommendations for the College of Senior Scholars, editors in chief of the Basket of Eight journals, the AIS Council, and individuals who lead other organizations of IS scholars.

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Editorial Board Diversity at the Basket of Eight Journals : A Report to the College of Senior Scholars. / Beath, Cynthia M.; Chan, Yolande; Davison, Robert M. et al.

In: Communications of the Association for Information Systems, Vol. 48, 30, 04.2021, p. 236-247.

Research output: Journal Publications and Reviews (RGC: 21, 22, 62)21_Publication in refereed journalpeer-review