The H-Index for Management Information Systems (Updated January 2024)

The H Index for Management Information Systems

The h-index is a citation index that attempts to measure both the productivity and impact of the published work of a scientist or scholar (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/H-index). The index was suggested by Jorge E. Hirsch, a physicist at UCSD, as a tool for determining theoretical physicists' relative quality (Hirsch, 2005). A scholar with an index of h has published h papers each of which has been cited by others at least h times. The h-index is intended to measure simultaneously the quality and sustainability of scientific output, as well as, to some extent, the diversity of scientific research. Since 2005, the h-index has been discussed and analyzed in major publications such as PNAS and Nature (Hirsch, 2005, 2007; Lehmann et al., 2006; Wendl, 2007) and adopted in many disciplines (e.g., physics, biology, computer science, information science, social sciences, economics, etc.).

The h-index can be manually determined using citation databases or using automatic web tools. Subscription-based databases such as Scopus and the Web of Science provide automated calculators. Each database or tool is likely to produce a different h for the same scholar because of different coverage. Google Scholar is widely used due to its availability and easy access. Google Scholar tends to have more citations (especially from conference publications) than Scopus and Web of Science, which cover mostly journal publications ( http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/H-index).

We provide here a partial list of Management Information System professors and researchers who each has an h-index of 30 or higher, according to Google Scholar. The original list of scholars that we considered includes AIS LEO recipients, AIS Fellows, past ICIS conference and program chairs, recent ICIS track chairs, AEs of selected major MIS journals (MISQ, ISR, JMIS, MS, DSS, JAIS, TMIS), and highly ranked scholars from several recent MIS research productivity studies (e.g., CAIS 2007; EJIS 2007). Based on an initial list of about 400 senior scholars, a Python program was developed to automatically query Google Scholar and obtain the h-index for each scholar via a combination of predefined rules. If a given scholar does not have a Google Scholar profile, we manually recorded up to 100 search results from Google Scholar and calculated the h-index based on the citations of each search result. Several records were also manually checked for validity. Any discrepancies with previous H-Index lists were also manually confirmed. Our effort yielded 190 MIS scholars with h-index of 30 or higher, which represents about the top 4% of all AIS members.

Although there are many different yardsticks for measuring research productivity in MIS, we believe the h-index is a metric that deserves attention due to its academic basis, simplicity, and wide acceptance in other major scientific disciplines. Several fields have included the h-index of productive scholars in their disciplines at selected web sites, such as “The h index for Computer Science” at  http://www.cs.ucla.edu/~palsberg/h-number.html, and, for economists, the h-index provided on the IDEAS website and database at  http://ideas.repec.org/top/top.person.hindex.html. This h-index for Management Information Systems is a similar effort.

Any automated tool may invariably introduce errors, inconsistencies, or omissions. Please send comments, corrections, and new entries to Brandi Gaulin at the University of Arizona,  ailab@eller.arizona.edu. We would like to thank the community members for their valuable feedback and inputs. We will continue to provide an annual update based on our existing program and Google Scholar.

References:

Jorge E. Hirsch (2005). "An index to quantify an individual's scientific research output." PNAS 102 (46): 16569–16572. Jorge E. Hirsch (2007). "Does the h-index have predictive power?" PNAS 104 (49): 19193–19198.

Michael Wendl (2007). "H-index: however ranked, citations need context." Nature 449 (7161): 403.

Sune Lehmann, Andrew D. Jackson, and Benny E. Lautrup (2006). "Measures for measures." Nature 444 (7122): 1003–4.

Please note that the compilation of this list is ongoing until end of January 2024 and then it will freeze until the next major update. – If you are aware of discrepancies in the list, please contact  ailab@eller.arizona.edu so that we can address your concerns. We plan to update this list every two years.

H-Index Table for Management Information Systems (January 2024)

H-Index

Name

H-Index

Name

H-Index

Name

109

Hsinchun Chen

61

George Wright

45

Michael Chau

109

Thomas H. Davenport

61

Hugh J. Watson

45

Qing Hu

107

Erik Brynjolfsson

61

Ting-Peng Liang

45

Yair Wand

103

Izak Benbasat

60

Robert O. Briggs

45

Gordon B. Davis

103

Andrew Whinston

59

Jane Webster

45

Matti Rossi

102

Varun Grover

59

Jason B. Thatcher

45

J. Leon Zhao

100

Kalle Lyytinen

58

Soon Ang

45

Ramesh Sharda

96

Leslie Willcocks

58

Lorin M. Hitt

44

Veda C. Storey

96

Zahir Irani

57

Marcello La Rosa

44

Ephraim McLean

91

Viswanath Venkatesh

57

Mikko Siponen

44

Sudha Ram

88

Jan Mendling

56

Albert L. Lederer

44

Hee-Woong Kim

87

Jay F. Nunamaker, Jr

56

Dorothy E. Leidner

44

Murray Jennex

84

EWT Ngai

56

Ann Majchrzak

44

Vijayan Sugumaran

83

Ronald M. Lee

55

Gert-Jan de Vreede

44

Peter Fettke

83

Richard Watson

55

Fred D. Davis

43

Juhani Iivari

83

Detmar Straub

55

Alexander Tuzhilin

43

Eileen M. Trauth

82

Matthew K.O. Lee

54

Henry C. Lucas, Jr.

43

Paul Jen-Hwa Hu

81

Thompson Teo

54

Blake Ives

43

Gurpreet Dhillon

80

Joseph S. Valacich

54

Colette Rolland

43

Allen S. Lee

80

Alan R. Dennis

54

P K. Kannan

43

Sue Brown

80

William R. King

54

Merrill Warkentin

43

Ahmed Abbasi

80

Helmut Krcmar

53

Amrit Tiwana

42

Anitesh Barua

78

Gary Klein

53

BCY Tan

42

Guy Grant Gable

77

Robert J. Kauffman

53

France Belanger

42

Yujong Hwang

77

Sue Newell

53

Rajiv Sabherwal

41

Maryam Alavi

76

Daniel Robey

52

Eric K. Clemons

41

Lorne Olfman

76

Matthias Jarke

52

Richard J. Boland, Jr.

41

Richard O. Mason

76

Jan vom Brocke

52

Ramayya Krishnan

41

Carsten Sorensen

75

Kenneth L. Kraemer

52

Sundeep Sahay

41

Chrisanthi Avgerou

75

Keng Siau

52

Peter Weill

40

E. Burton Swanson

74

Wanda Orlikowski

52

Daniel E. O'Leary

40

Balasubramaniam Ramesh

74

Rudy Hirschheim

52

Lina Zhou

40

John C. Henderson

74

Michael Rosemann

51

Joey F. George

40

Ram Gopal

74

H.R. Rao

51

Michael D. Myers

40

Christian Wagner

73

M. Lynne Markus

51

Alok Gupta

40

Sinan Aral

73

Sirkka Jarvenpaa

51

Rahul Telang

39

Dale L. Goodhue

73

Kevin Crowston

50

David Avison

39

Bin Gu

72

Paul B. Lowry

50

Abraham Seidmann

39

Sid L. Huff

72

Jan Recker

50

Alan R. Hevner

38

Stefan Klein

71

CW Holsapple

49

Suzanne Rivard

38

Jeffrey Parsons

71

Doug Vogel

49

Carol Saunders

38

Jan Pries-Heje

71

Richard Baskerville

49

Stuart Madnick

37

Anne P. Massey

71

Arun Rai

49

Joe Peppard

37

G. Lawrence Sanders

71

Tiago Oliveira

49

Sunil Mithas

37

J.P. Shim

70

Mark Keil

48

Vallabh Sambamurthy

37

Virpi K. Tuunainen

70

Ritu Agarwal

48

Chris F. Kemerer

36

Brent Gallupe

69

Robert Zmud

48

William J. Kettinger

36

Hemant K. Bhargava

69

John Mingers

48

Benn R. Konsynski

36

Stefan Seidel

69

Ee-Peng Lim

48

Elena Karahanna

36

Fred Niederman

69

Jan M. Leimeister

48

Alain Pinsonneault

36

Ulrike Schultze

68

Foster Provost

47

Dennis Galletta

34

Frank Land

67

James J. Jiang

47

Kar Yan Tam

34

Michael J. Earl

67

Daniel D. Zeng

47

Jason Dedrick

34

Jennifer (Jie) Xu

67

Robert M. Davison

47

Ron Weber

34

Sarv Devaraj

66

N. Venkat Venkatraman

47

Tridas Mukhopadhyay

33

Vijay Gurbaxani

66

Jörg Becker

47

James Y.L. Thong

33

Matthew R. Jones

65

Brian Fitzgerald

47

K. D. Joshi

31

Samir Chatterjee

65

Mary C. Lacity

47

Robert (Xin) Luo

31

Mary Culnan

64

Robert D. Galliers

46

Sandra Slaughter

30

Robert W. Blanning

64

Geoff Walsham

46

Upkar Varshney

30

John F. Rockart

64

David Gefen

46

Fiona (Fui-Hoon) Nah

-

-

64

Pekka Abrahamsson

46

John L. King

-

-

63

Patrick (Wei Guo) Fan

46

Steven Alter

-

-

62

Michael J. Shaw

46

Dongsong Zhang

-

-

62

Patrick Y.K. Chau

45

Iris Vessey

-

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