A way to share the newest and best articles

[Craig S. Fleisher]

Howdy CI Academics: Some years ago (between 2003-06 to be more specific), Paul Dishman, Victor Knip, Robb Tindale, Sheila Wright and myself published a number of organized CI bibliographies in the JCIM. We were hoping that people would find it of value as they did their own research or needed to advise their students on what was available. I have attached the newest version of this effort to this message.

My reason for sending this out via discussion is to ask everyone here what they would recommend, or want, in terms of being kept up-to-date on our field? Does anyone want to keep up-to-date? What ways can we help one another stay current with new articles, dissertations, papers, research, theses? Please feel free to make suggestions since some of the early founders of this site (Arik J and myself primary among these) are determining how to improve its functionality and ability to serve the needs of our growing CI Ning community.

Thanks in advance for your ideas. We will consider them, and hopefully support them as well!

[Jayanth]

Hello sir...
as a student, i always want to keep up in date of all CI materials... and i will look to the bibliography and comment back soon

[Craig S. Fleisher]

Thanks Jayanth. It will be helpful to know how I and the others can be of assistance to students. We want you to have access to the research and writing that has been done in the field... at least in terms of knowing what is out there and being able to search it! Thanks for your consideration.

[Lesley Howell]

Hi Craig -

I find your bibliography has appeared at just the right time. I am nearing the end of a Lit Review for a doctoral thesis, and while many of the titles mentioned are ones with which I am familiar - there are some that had avoided me ... until now - but not for much longer.

I am curious as to how you are treating co-authorship in your tabulations? Sometimes names appear on an alphabetical basis - in other cases it seems to be done differently (amount of profile, perspiration/angst/time invested?) How do you decide who gets credit?

My thanks for your (unintended) assistance.

[Craig S. Fleisher]

Hi Lesley: You ask a good question - which I suspect is actually two separate ones. First, when we put this listing together, we ordinarily listed it as we found the original listings in the source articles themselves.

The second question is about who should get credit for offering up their ideas in the form of a published piece. That one is a lot trickier than the first one, not the least of which because different institutions and individuals often have their own unique protocols for doing this. Some institutions, particularly those that are research-intensive or research-predominant in their mission, take the order and number of authors very seriously. In those places, being first author is more important than being second or third (etc.), and having received the lion's share of credit for the overall piece is what they will look for. At places like my university's business school, we give people full authoring credit for articles (i.e., when sole or co-authoring, up to 3 people - partly because we encourage collaborative research efforts at my place, while also expecting our colleagues to demonstrate their ability to research/publish independently as well), except in those cases where they are part of teams of four or more. In those cases, which are generally less frequent in business fields than they might be in engineering or medical studies, we (and sometimes the journal editor themselves) would ask them to specify what their level of contribution was in the final published piece.

If you are considering how to go about publishing your work, my advice to you is simple. Always work with your (potential) co-authors up front to identify a) who will be responsible for what parts of the article/paper, b) how credit will be allocated between the collaborators, and c) who will be listed as the corresponding author (i.e., this person will be the primary person interacting with editors and having to provide comments and corrections to reviewers).

One of the most difficult lessons an academic learns in their career is how to balance this matter out in an ethical and fair way. As in some other parts of society, not all academics are necessarily both ethical and fair, leading to some cases (of which I and our other senior academics in this community are aware) in which an individual felt aggrieved in the manner in which their work was ultimately published. Again, a little advance planning and skillful negotiation up front can usually lessen the likelihood of bad feelings when the project reaches it ultimate published conclusion.

I hope that helped. Please feel free to speak with me off-line if I haven't done enough to clarify your queries. Craig

[Craig S. Fleisher]

Hi Lesley: You should also be aware that there were three prior comprehensive portions to this bibliography that looked at the literature prior to the 2003 start point of this piece. If you are interested in that, please let me know via e-mail as they are too big too place on the site. Our ultimate goal is to use this site to house a living bibliographic wiki of these items, so that everybody doing research i the community can benefit. The only reason it isn't there already is that it is a massive project which is taking a long time to bring live! Craig