December 2009
We are proud and happy to announce our new Advisory Board. For more details please click here.
November 2009
We are currently accepting applications for admission to our research degree programs (M.Sc. & Ph.D.) commencing in Fall (Sep) 2010.
Several recent rankings place our division among the top in the world.
October 2009
MIS Division Retreat at MBA House (Oct 30, 2009).
Izak Benbasat received the first annual Distinguished Fellow Award from INFORMS Information System Society. The award recognizes individuals who have made outstanding intellectual contributions to the Information Systems discipline, and will be presented at the annual Conference on Information Systems and Technology (CIST) in San Diego mid-October.
A recent study ranked the UBC MIS Division to be the most prolific institution for research on human computer interaction (HCI) from 1990-2008. Professor Izak Benbasat was ranked the most prolific HCI researcher during this period. Professors Burton-Jones and Cenfetellialso made the top 16 researchers in 2003-2008.
Zhang, P., Li, N., Scialdone, M.J., and Carey, J. 2009 “The Intellectual Advancement of Human-Computer Interaction Research: A Critical Assessment of the MIS Literature (1990-2008),” AIS Transactions on Human-Computer Interaction,” (1:3) pp. 55-107.
May 2009
A recent article in the Communications of the Association for Information Systems (Volume 24, 2009) by Clark, Warren, and Au, ranks Professor Izak Benbasat and the UBC MIS division among the top in the world. During 2003-2007, Professor Benbasat published more papers in the top three MIS journals (MISQ, ISR, JMIS) than any other researcher in the world. The UBC MIS division also has the third highest publication record in these three journals, with the highest average publication rate per faculty member.
January 2009
A recent analysis by the editor-in-chief of MIS Quarterly (MISQ), one of the top two MIS research journals, has shown that Professor Izak Benbasat is the all time leading publisher in the journal since its inception in 1977.
