Research Toolbox

Ranking

Harzing JQL

Anne-Wil Harzing's consolidated journal quality list — the single most useful ranking overview.

Ranking

SJR / Scimago

Journal & country ranks based on Scopus, with quartiles and h-index.

Ranking

Kanalregisteret

The Norwegian register of scientific publication channels. Level 1 or 2 matters for HK-dir funding.

Ranking

Web of Science

Clarivate's citation index — impact factors, JCR quartiles, journal categories.

Library

AIS eLibrary

IS conferences & journals — open access for AIS members.

Library

Biblioteket — Kristiania

Full-text databases, journal access, study guides — Feide login required.

Library

Biblioteca — UBU

Universidad de Burgos — UBUCAT catalogue and institutional repository RIUBU.

Style

APA 7

Official APA Style guidelines — citations, references, formatting.

Style

Zotero Styles

Thousands of citation style files — find your journal's CSL.

Tool

Nettskjema

UiO's secure survey tool — the only one permitted at Kristiania for personal data. SIKT- and REC-recognised.

Method

Kitchenham & Charters 2007

Reference guidelines for systematic literature reviews — three phases, replicable, used everywhere.

Method

Kitchenham et al. 2009

A systematic review of systematic reviews — where the SLR method stumbles.

Method

PRISMA 2020

The current standard for reporting systematic reviews — 27-item checklist, flow diagram.

Method

Venkatesh et al. 2013

Bridging qualitative–quantitative. Go-to mixed-methods guideline in IS — I use it for my PhD design.

Method

Hair et al. 2020 — CCA

Confirmatory composite analysis for measurement model quality in PLS-SEM.

Method

Shmueli et al. 2019 — PLSpredict

Out-of-sample prediction for PLS-SEM — from explanation to prediction.

Standard

BSI C5:2020

Germany's Cloud Security audit reference — what I teach in SKY2100.

Standard

NIST CSF 2.0

2024 update with new "Govern" function. Globally referenced for cyber risk management.

Standard

CSA Security Guidance v5

12-domain cloud security guidance — Zero Trust, GenAI, DevSecOps.

Theory

UTAUT2

Venkatesh, Thong & Xu (2012, MISQ) — UTAUT for consumer context with hedonic motivation, price value, habit.

Article

Webster & Watson 2002

Analyzing the Past to Prepare for the Future — the default standard for literature reviews in IS.

Article

vom Brocke et al. 2009

Reconstructing the Giant — five phases, transparent documentation, replicable searches.

Article

Corporate Insecthood

Strohminger & Jordan · Cognition, 2022 — if corporations were people, they'd be more like ants.

Article

The Geography of Science

Nagaraj & Yao · NBER 2026 — US share fell from 40% to 15%. China: near zero to 32%.

Article

Ways of Thinking in Informatics

Denning & Tedre · CACM 2021 — seven habits of mind that distinguish computational thinking.

Essay

Management Time: Who's Got the Monkey?

Oncken & Wass · HBR 1999 — the classic essay on delegation. Read once, inbox never looks the same.

Essay

IT Doesn't Matter

Nicholas Carr · HBR 2003 — as IT becomes commodity infrastructure, competitive advantage disappears.

Essay

Don't ask what AI can do for us…

The Guardian · April 2025 — ask what it is doing to us. Adoption is not the only question.

Article

Alavi, Leidner & Mousavi — GenAI & KM

Knowledge Management Perspective of Generative Artificial Intelligence — Alavi, Leidner & Mousavi · JSIS

Article

AI in Knowledge Management

Reza, Mojtaba — Artificial intelligence in knowledge management: identifying and addressing key implementation challenges

Article

Nguyen — GenAI in the Workplace (2024)

Generative AI in the workplace: how employee experiences influence work outcomes? · Mai Nguyen · 12-10-2024

Article

Qahl — GenAI Adoption in HEI

Knowledge Acquisition, Knowledge Sharing & Technology Acceptance Factors on GenAI Adoption in Higher Education — Mamdouh Qahl, Jazan University