ISSUES AND OPINIONS EVALUATING JOURNAL QUALITY AND THE ASSOCIATION FOR INFORMATION SYSTEMS SENIOR SCHOLARS’ JOURNAL BASKET VIA BIBLIOMETRIC MEASURES: DO EXPERT JOURNAL ASSESSMENTS ADD VALUE?

Consistent with Straub and Anderson (2010), we recognize that a journal’s quality and a journal’s impact, reputation, and influence are not necessarily equivalent. Similarly, an underlying nomology likely exists—that is largely unknown and unresearched—such that key factors of quality (e.g., rigor of review process, caution with respect to editorial oversight, accuracy of content, etc.) are what predict journal impact or influence (Straub and Anderson 2010). However, due to the complex and unknown nature of this nomology, and following extant practice in scientometrics research, we follow Straub and Anderson in simply equating journal quality with journal impact and reputation for pragmatic purposes. On this basis, we categorize the various methods of assessing journal quality from this lens into three methodological approaches: expert assessment, citation analyses, and non-validated approaches. We review these approaches to better establish the foundation for our choice t