Workshop on E-Government Journals: Meet the Editors

Over the years, the academic domain of electronic government research (EGR) has developed its own core of journals, which cover the various aspects and areas of interest in EGR. While some journals apply a policy or an administrative perspective, others emphasize the information or information-systems perspective. The workshop is meant to help prospective authors understand and meet the expectations of the respective target audiences of EGR journals as well as the editorial policies of leading journals in the domain. Target Group: very broad, for example, all prospective authors of academic EGR papers. 1 Overview The workshop will introduce various journals, which play a role in the study domain of electronic government (EGR). In recent years a number of journals have been assessed as core journals in EGR including Elsevier’s Government Information Quarterly (GIQ), IOS Press’ Information Polity (IP), IGI Global’s International Journal of Electronic Government Research (IJEGR), Emerald’s Transforming Government: People, Process, Policy (TGPPP), and ACI’s Electronic Journal of Electronic Government (ECEG). The editors in attendance will outline these journals’ editorial policies and introduce the readerships’ expectations. 2 Journal Standings and Rankings As soon as an academic study domain has settled on a set of publication outlets, the questions becomes, “where shall a scholar in that domain publish her or his work?” While some decisions can be made based on topical orientation (for example, emphases on policy, technology, organization, etc), others might consider tenure and promotion aspects in their outlet selection. With the ascent of core journals in the EGR domain, those outlets now play an increasingly more important role in tenure and promotion cases. The workshop will also address the issues of journal evaluation, rankings, and topical orientation from the perspective of tenure and promotion.