AN EMPIRICAL-ASSESSMENT AND CATEGORIZATION OF JOURNALS RELEVANT TO DSS RESEARCH

This paper reports on an objective empirical study of the decision sup port system literature for the purpose of assessing journals relevant to DSS research efforts. Here, we provide DSS researchers and those wh o evaluate them an up-to-date picture of the forums available for scho larly discourse and research. We conducted a citation analysis of the Decision Support Systems journal for the years 1985-1993 to obtain a c itation base containing over 7,500 citations. The citation base is the n used to (1) examine citation trends for books, proceedings, and jour nals; (2) determine a relative ranking of journals based on total cita tions, and (3) organize journals into categories. Guidelines are provi ded for utilizing the categorization.