DECISION SCIENCES INSTITUTE

Report of the 2009-10 Decision Sciences Journal of Innovative Education

Chetan Sankar, Editor

Please use a Capital letter (A, B, C, etc.) to indicate the recommendations regarding each charge. Group the recommendations into “high impact, implement as soon as possible” and “moderate to low impact, implement when appropriate” categories. State your recommendations in rank order as action items, as precisely as possible. To the extent possible, please provide a cost estimate for implementation if appropriate and indicate who should be responsible for implementation with an indicated timeline. Fewer, actionable recommendations would help the Board bring about the recommended changes.

I. SPECIFIC RECOMMENDATIONS TO THE BOARD OF DIRECTORS

[Please use a Capital letter (A, B, C, etc.) to indicate the recommendations regarding each charge.]

Charge 1: Work with the Strategic Planning for International Affairs Committee to increase the internationalization of the DSJIE.

1. Two Associate Editors from Australia & Korea has been appointed. Six others from other countries have joined the Editorial Review Board.

Charge 2: Work with the Publications Committee to enhance the DSJIE.

1. The backlog of articles have been reduced and now DSJIE has a policy of publishing an accepted an article within an year.
2. There is a critical need to increase the number of issues to four per year with 600 pages per year so that the citation index will improve for the journal. This needs to be approved as early as possible.

Charge 3: Develop interdisciplinary platforms for special interest groups.

1. Two special issues, one on qualitative research and another on ERP systems have been announced.
2. A Dean’s opinion on changes needed to be made in the Colleges of Business curriculum due to the recent financial crisis was received well by the membership. Twelve editorial board members wrote opinion pieces on this article.
   

Editor

Chetan S. Sankar
Auburn University

Associate Editors

David Chou
Vernon E. Francis
John Jensen
Chris Kydd
Ceyhun Ozgur
J. Wayne Patterson
Barbara Price
Susan Williams

2009 Progress Report

 

Status

 

Disposition	2009	2007-08	2006-07	2005-06	2004-05	2003-04
Accepted	33 (29%)	37(33.3%)	27 (23.8%)	11 (15%)	13 (18%)	22 (27%)
Rejected	38(33.3%)	38(34.2%)	40 (35.3%)	19 (25%)	27 (38%)	20 (24%)
Under Review	24(21%)	12(10.8%)	9 (7.9%)	38 (52%)	27 (38%)	33(40%)
With author for revision	19(16.6%)	24 (21.7%)	37(32.7%)	6(8%)	5 (7%)	7 (9%)
TOTAL	114	111	113	74	72	82

 

Published Articles in DSJIE

 

Issue	Empirical/Conceptual/Case	Teaching Briefs	# of pages
Jan. 2008	7	7	210
Jul-08	8	20	330
Jan. 2009	8	16	330
Jul-09	7	7	190
Jan. 2010	8	8	N/A
Jul-10		4
	38	62

 

Decision During the Current Editorial Board's Term

Decision Period: 1/1/2008-11/10/09

 

Manuscript Decision	Case Manuscripts	Conceptual Articles	Empirical Manuscripts	Teaching Briefs	Total	Percentage
Accept	1	16	15	31	63	33.16%
Major Revision	1	1	9	2	13	6.84%
Minor Revision	0	1	1	3	5	2.63%
Pending	1	3	9	11	24	12.63%
Reject	9	12	23	38	82	43.16%
Reject - Inappropriate	1	2	0	0	3	1.58%
Total:	13	35	57	85	190	100.00 %

 

Time to Review

 

Time to Review	Prior 12 Months
Avg days from to first Avg. submission decision	48
Avg. Reviewer turnaround time (days) - Original	24
Avg. Reviewer turnaround time (days) - Revision	21
Avg. days from submission to final decision	65

 

Sessions Sponsored by DSJIE

• Importance of Teaching from Dean’s Perspective: Barbara Price
  
• Outstanding Teaching Briefs: David Chou
  
• High quality empirical paper: High-research David Chou
  
• Special Theme Call for Papers: John R. Grandzol & David Chou

Sponsored Awards

• Wiley-Blackwell has graciously provided us with $2000 for the awards which will be awards, distributed for best empirical research papers presented at the DSI 2009 conference
  
• Alpha Iota Delta has graciously provided us with $500 for awards, which will be distributed for best teaching briefs presented at the DSI 2009 conference

Current Status

• Volume 8, issue 1 is complete and will be mailed in January, 2009
  
• 5 articles already waiting for publication in July July, 2009 issue
  
• 23 papers in the pipeline
  
• processed so far in 89 papers 2009
  
• Plans to add Aes representing other countries
  
• Editorial Review Board: Updated list and added new members

Strategic Plan

• Continue to pursue recognition as a top-tier journal in business areas
  • Increased number of pages for teaching briefs to 6 pages with a requirement that a half page be devoted to literature review & another half a page
    for list of references
    
• Increase publicity/ marketing to encourage pedagogy research & bring in resources to
• Use of information technology enhance visibility

Types of Articles Published

• Teaching Briefs
  
• Empirical Articles
  
• Conceptual Articles
  
• Other articles that use innovative pedagogy research methodologies

What you can do?

• Please register as a reviewer
  
• Help internationalize journal
• Obtain sponsorship from companies & organizations
  
• Encourage members to get grants to pursue pedagogy research

Future of DSJIE

• Publish 2 issues per year until 2010 or 2011
  
• DSJIE will use 516 pages per year until 2010
  
• Possibly 4 issues per year after that depending on board approval
  
• Shelf space of pedagogy and learning research article tends to be measured in a few years.
• Any article that is accepted by DSJIE is being a published within year of acceptance: Thanks to the AEs, Board of Directors, & Wiley-Blackwell for achieving this milestone