Ideational Influence, Connectedness, and Venue Representation: Making an Assessment of Scholarly Capital
Document Type
Article
Publication Date
2016
Publication Title
Journal of the Association for Information Systems
Abstract
Assessing the research capital that a scholar has accrued is an essential task for academic administrators, funding agencies, and promotion and tenure committees worldwide. Scholars have criticized the existing methodology of counting papers in ranked journals and made calls to replace it (Adler & Harzing, 2009; Singh, Haddad, & Chow, 2007). In its place, some have made calls to assess the uptake of a scholar’s work instead of assessing “quality” (Truex, Cuellar, Takeda, & Vidgen, 2011a). We identify three dimensions of scholarly capital (ideational influence (who uses one’s work?), connectedness (with whom does one work?) and venue representation (where does one publish their work?)) in this paper as part of a scholarly capital model (SCM). We develop measurement models for the three dimensions of scholarly capital and test the relationships in a path model. We show how one might use the measures to evaluate scholarly research activity.
Recommended Citation
Cueller, Michael, et al. "Ideational Influence, Connectedness, and Venue Representation: Making an Assessment of Scholarly Capital." Journal of the Association for Information Systems, vol. 17, no 1, 2016.
Comments
The Journal of the Association for Information Systems (JAIS) is the flagship journal of the Association for Information Systems. The Journal promotes innovative, interesting and rigorously developed conceptual and empirical contributions and encourages theory based multi- or inter-disciplinary research.