Paper Provenance

ISR adheres to the INFORMS policy on prior publication of results. Authors should take care to indicate how the submitted manuscript differs in its contribution from any of their closely related research that might have been published or is currently in submission at another publication outlet. Authors should also indicate whether the current manuscript was previously submitted in some form to another journal where it was not accepted for publication. In such cases, authors should disclose the major reasons for rejection and what steps have been taken to remedy significant earlier deficiencies. Authors are strongly discouraged from resubmitting manuscripts whose earlier versions have been rejected by ISR. Given that a “revise and resubmit” option is available, authors should generally accept “rejection” decisions as final. In exceptional cases, the editors might invite a fresh submission of a rejected manuscript.

Submission of a paper to ISR for possible publication means that the authors certify that the manuscript has not been published previously nor is currently submitted for publication elsewhere. As a condition of final acceptance of a paper for publication in Information Systems Research, the authors must indicate if their paper is posted on a working paper website, other than their own. They are responsible for assuring that, if any part of the paper has been copyrighted for prepublication as a working paper, the copyright can and will be transferred to INFORMS when the paper has been accepted. This includes both print and electronic forms of the paper. On acceptance, the text, or any link to full text, must be removed from working paper websites, other than the author’s own website.

Authors must certify that their submission adheres to the provenance policies of the journal via the online system at http://mc.manuscriptcentral.com/isr.