IGI Global, an information science and technology publisher, is proud to share the news of the recently released and upgraded impact factor for one of its most authoritative journals, the
Journal of Global Information Management (JGIM) (Editor-in-Chief: Felix B. Tan, Auckland University of Technology, New Zealand). Thomson Reuters, publisher of the most widely recognized ranking system for scholarly journals, has computed an impact factor of
1.222 for the journal.
According to the most recent statistics from the 2010 Journal Citation Reports, JGIM’s five-year impact factor has been announced for the first time and calculated at 1.829, indicating the longevity of the quality literature published in the journal.
The
Impact Factor, created by Thomson Reuters (formerly the Institute for Scientific Information [ISI]) is a widely recognized classification of a journal's influence and reputation within the scholarly community. The impact factor is based on the ratio of citations referencing a journal's articles to the total number of articles published during a defined period of years. The Immediacy Index is another Thomson Reuters metric that indicates the current relevance and urgency of a journal based on citations that appear the same year in which an article was originally published.
"I am very pleased to announce that the Journal of Global Information Management has attained an impact factor of 1.222 and more interestingly, it achieved a 5-year impact factor of 1.829," said Dr. Felix Tan, JGIM's Editor-in-Chief. "This commonly means that JGIM requires a longer time for its publications to be read and cited, implying that the journal's published works may be more durable over time.”
| Since its inaugural year in 1993, JGIM has published original material concerned with all aspects of global information resources management. JGIM is the primary forum for researchers and practitioners to disseminate the evolving knowledge in the theory and practice related to information technology and management of information resources at the international level. The journal emphasizes the managerial and organizational facets of information technology resources management. Articles published in JGIM deal with a vast number of issues concerning usage, failure, success, policies, strategies, and applications of information technology in organizations in and across developed, emerging, and developing nations. For more information on this journal, please visit http://www.igi-global.com/jgim. |  |
About the Editor-in-Chief
Felix B. Tan is a professor of Information Systems, Discipline Chair of Business Information Systems, and Director of the Centre for Research on Information Systems Management (CRISM) at Auckland University of Technology, New Zealand. He was on the Council of the Association for Information Systems from 2003 to 2005. He has held visiting positions with the National University of Singapore, The University of Western Ontario, Georgia State University, and The University of Hawaii at Manoa. Dr. Tan is internationally known for his work in the global IT field. His other research interests include user behavior in e-commerce, m-commerce, Web 2.0, and IS strategy, management, and governance. Dr. Tan has published in MIS Quarterly, Information & Management, Communications of the AIS, IEEE Transactions on Engineering Management, IEEE Transactions on Personal Communications, Information Systems Journal, Journal of Information Technology, International Journal of Electronic Commerce, Communications of the ACM, as well as other journals and refereed conference proceedings.