This journal sets out to advance knowledge of, and insights into, all aspects relating to IT standards and standardisation, by providing a 'one-stop-shop' publication and information outlet for the extremely heterogeneous community of standards researchers.

It is published by IGI Global on a semi-annually basis; the first issue was published in November 2002. The publisher's pages for JITSR, which provide some additional information, may be found here.

And if you are interested in some promotional material, and maybe want to distribute it, you will find something here.

For those who don't want to buy a pig in a poke, a pdf-version of Issue 1 may be found here.

And last not least - the ToCs of all issues may be found here.
 

Call for Papers

You may find the online-version of the Call for Papers here.

Please click here for a .pdf-version.

Overall scope

The journal aims to be a platform for presenting, and discussing, the broad variety of aspects that make up IT standards research. This includes, but is certainly not limited to, contributions from the disciplines of computer science, information systems, management, business, social sciences (especially science and technology studies), economics, engineering, political science, public policy, sociology, communication, and human factors/usability. In particular, the journal wants to both support and promote multi-disciplinary research on IT standards; 'IT' should be understood in a very broad sense.

To achieve, and maintain, both academic excellence and practical relevance are further high-priority objectives. To this end, all submissions will be peer-reviewed by at least three members of the editorial board.
 

Topics to be covered (not an exclusive list)

• Technological innovation and standardisation
• Standards for information infrastructures
• Standardisation and economic development
• Open Source and standardisation
• Intellectual property rights
• Economics of standardisation
• Emerging roles of formal standards organizations and consortia
• Conformity assessment
• National, regional, international and corporate standards strategies
• Standardisation and regulation
• Standardisation as a form of the Public Sphere
• Standardisation and public policy formation
• Analyses of standards setting processes, products, and organization
• Case studies of standardisation
• Impacts of market-driven standardisation and emerging players
• The future of standardisation
• Multinational and transnational perspectives and impacts
• Commercial value of proprietary specifications
• Descriptive & prescriptive theories of standardisation
• Standards research and education activities
• Tools and services supporting improved standardisation
• User related issues
• Risks of standardisation
• Management of standards
• History of Standards
• Standards and technology transfer
   

Editor-in-Chief

Kai Jakobs, RWTH Aachen University, Germany
 

Associate Editors

Koichi Asatani, Kogakuin University, Japan
Carl Cargill, Sun Microsystems, USA
Tineke Egyedi, Techn. U. of Delft, The Netherlands (Book editor)
Richard Hawkins, TNO, The Netherlands
Ken Krechmer, Consultant, USA
Timothy Schoechle, ICSR, USA
Mostafa Hashem Sherif, AT&T, USA
Robin Williams, U. of Edinburgh, Scotland
 

Editorial Review Board

Majed Al-Mashari, King Saud U., SA
Rudi Bekkers, Dialogic & TU Eindhoven, NL
Marc Berg, Erasmus U., NL
Knut Blind, FhG & TU Berlin, DE
Randall S. Bloomfield, U. of Colorado, US
Scott Bradner, Harvard U., USA
Peter Buxmann, TU Darmstadt., DE
Simão Ferraz de Campos Neto, ITU-T, CH
Yves Chauvel, ETSI, F
Vladislav Fomin, Vytautas Magnus U., LT
Mark Gaynor, Boston U., USA
Ricardo Goncalves, U. Nova Lisboa, PT
Ole Hanseth, U. of Oslo, NO
Wilfried Hesser, HSU, DE
Manfred Holler, U. of Hamburg, DE
Eric Iversen, NIFU-STEP, NO
Roger Jamieson, U. of New South Wales, AU
Matthias Jarke, Fraunhofer Gesellschaft, DE
Kurt Kosanke, CIMOSA Assoc., DE
Martin Libicki, Rand Corporation, US
Kalle Lyytinen, Case Western Reserve U., US
Deependra Moitra, Management Consultant, IN
Eric Monteiro, Norwegian U. of Sci & Tech , NO
Rob Proctor, NCeSS, UK
Roy Rada, U. of Maryland, US
Tony Shan, Wachovia Bank, US
Jan Smits, Technical U. of Eindhoven, NL
Michael Spring, U. of Pittsburgh, US
Kees Stuurman, Landwell, NL
James J. Thurston, IT Industry Council, US
Klaus Turowski, U. of Augsburg, DE
Ajay Vinze, Arizona State U., USA
Jack Verhoosel, TNO, NL
Francesco Virili, U. of Cassino, IT
Henk de Vries, RSM Erasmus U., NL
Willem Wakker, ACE Consulting
Marc van Wegberg, U. of Maastricht, NL
Phil Weiser, U. of Colorado, US
Martin Weiss, U. of Pittsburgh, US
Tim Weitzel, U. Bamberg, DE
Joel West, San José State U., US