Research Articles

Research Articles are full-length papers that seek to theoretically and/or empirically examine significant information systems phenomena. Appropriate submissions should offer a contribution that is sufficiently original and significant so as to warrant a full-length article for the authors to develop and present their argument. The submissions should have a strong grounding in theory. Such a theory could either be a new theory that the authors are advancing or an existing theory the authors are illustrating, testing, refining, challenging, or simply applying.

ISR seeks to publish research articles of at least three types:

• Articles that are "pure theory"
• Articles that empirically test or illustrate theory
• Articles that apply existing theory

The audience should be academics, practitioners, or both. A submission should clearly and prominently make known its intended audience so that the editors, reviewers, and readers will know how to approach it.

Criteria for evaluating the publishability of a research article include:

• Is the phenomenon of salient interest to the information systems community?
• Are the connections to the literature and relevant theories robust?
• Is the theoretical model appropriate and compelling enough to provide justification for the propositions or hypotheses?
• Are the empirical methods appropriate, valid, and well-executed?
• Are the analyses done competently?
• Are the results interesting?
• Are the conclusions compelling?