The European Journal of Information Systems is an interdisciplinary

Interdisciplinarity

Interdisciplinarity involves the combining of two or more academic fields into one single discipline. An interdisciplinary field crosses traditional boundaries between academic disciplines or schools of thought, as new needs and professions have emerged....

 scientific journal

Scientific journal

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, which wants to offer a distinctive European perspective on the theory and practice of information systems

Information systems

Information Systems is an academic/professional discipline bridging the business field and the well-defined computer science field that is evolving toward a new scientific area of study...

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The journal was established in 1991 and is an official journal of The Operational Research Society

The Operational Research Society

The Operational Research Society is an international learned society in the field of operations research, with more than 2,700 members . It is headquartered in Birmingham, England...

. The topics of research covered include a diverse range such as technology

Technology

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, development

Regional development

Regional development is the provision of aid and other assistance to regions which are less economically developed. Regional development may be domestic or international in nature...

, implementation

Implementation

Implementation is the realization of an application, or execution of a plan, idea, model, design, specification, standard, algorithm, or policy.-Computer Science:...

, strategy

Strategy

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, management

Management

Management in all business and organizational activities is the act of getting people together to accomplish desired goals and objectives using available resources efficiently and effectively...

, and policy

Policy

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 related to the theory and practice of information systems

Information systems

Information Systems is an academic/professional discipline bridging the business field and the well-defined computer science field that is evolving toward a new scientific area of study...

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According to the Journal Citation Reports

Journal Citation Reports

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, the journal has a 2009 impact factor

Impact factor

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 of 1.200, ranking it 61 out of 116 journals in the category "Computer Science, Information Systems".

History

The journal was co-founded in 1991 by Ray J. Paul, who still serves as one of the editors (Brunel University

Brunel University

Brunel University is a public research university located in Uxbridge, London, United Kingdom. The university is named after the Victorian engineer Isambard Kingdom Brunel....

 and London School of Economics

London School of Economics

The London School of Economics and Political Science is a public research university specialised in the social sciences located in London, United Kingdom, and a constituent college of the federal University of London...

). The editor-in-chief is Richard L. Baskerville (Georgia State University

Georgia State University

Georgia State University is a research university in downtown Atlanta, Georgia, USA. Founded in 1913, it serves about 30,000 students and is one of the University System of Georgia's four research universities...

).