¹Department of Business Information Systems, Haworth College of Business, Western Michigan University, Kalamazoo, MI, USA

Correspondence: Dr. Pairin Katerattanakul, Department of Business Information Systems, Haworth College of Business, Western Michigan University, Kalamazoo, MI 49008-5412, USA. Tel: +1616 387 4249; Fax: +1616 387 5710; E-mail: pairin@wmich.edu

Received 29 April 2002; Revised 4 October 2002; Accepted 15 October 2002.

Abstract

A concern that the quality of European IS journals has been under-rated by existing studies was recently addressed in the IS community. In this study, an objective method based on a Citation Analysis was employed to re-examine the quality of four established European IS journals as compared to 11 other well-recognized IS journals. Extensive citation data were collected to derive eight indices as the measures of journal quality. Our research results indicate that the quality of the four leading European IS journals is quite comparable to that of other well-known IS journals reported in prior studies.