Are we on the right track? an update to Lyytinen et al.’s commentary on why the old world cannot publish
本文更新了十多年前Lyytinen等人关于欧洲学者在顶级期刊发表困难的研究，通过分析1713位全球信息系统学者的谷歌学术档案，发现北欧和西欧学者与北美同行在学术影响力上的差距已不明显，但研究环境仍有影响。
In a thought-provoking paper published in EJIS more than a decade ago, Lyytinen and colleagues asked the question, why does the “old world” perform poorly in high academic impact publishing? This triggered a lively debate on the epistemological and methodological traditions, preferences, and research practices of Europeans versus North Americans that has lasted until today. Is it still true, we asked ourselves, that European scholars generate less academic impact than their North American colleagues? Is the European research context indeed disadvantageous for developing high academic impact research? In this paper, we set out to explore these questions by analysing the Google Scholar profiles of 1713 IS researchers from all over the world. Our findings show that Northern and Western European scholars no longer seem to differ significantly from their North American peers, even though the different research contexts still exercise a certain level of influence. However, is this a development the “old world” desires? We provide an assessment and some suggestions for the future of European IS research.