WELCOME TO HICSS

WHERE IDEAS MEET AND SCIENCE SPEAKS

Since 1968, the Hawaii International Conference on System Sciences (HICSS) has been known worldwide as the longest-standing working scientific conferences in Information Technology Management. HICSS provides a highly interactive working environment for top scholars from academia and the industry from over 60 countries to exchange ideas in various areas of information, computer, and system sciences. According to Microsoft Academic, HICSS ranks the 36th in terms of citations among 4,444 conferences in all fields worldwide.

You are welcome to browse through the interactive visuals below to appreciate the scientific work at HICSS and how the various topics have evolved over time. The interactive visualizations below (HICSS Influence Over Time, HICSS Word Voyager, HICSS Tracks by Year, and HICSS Top Authors) were built by Jason Portenoy and Jevin West in the DataLab at the University of Washington. A preliminary paper explaining the project and the methods can be found here. The ‘HICSS in Numbers’ visualizations were prepared by David King at Dataffiti LLC.

We encourage you to be part of the success of HICSS.

Unique characteristics of the conference include:

• A matrix structure of tracks and minitracks that enables research on a rich mixture of cutting-edge computer-based applications and technologies.
• Three days presentations of peer-reviewed papers and discussions in a workshop setting that promotes interaction leading to revised and extended papers that are published in journals, books, and special issues as well as additional research.
• A full day of Symposia, Workshops, and Tutorials.
• Keynote addresses and distinguished lectures which explore particularly relevant topics and concepts.
• Best Paper Awards in each track which recognize superior research performance.
• HICSS is the #1 IS conference in terms of citations as recorded by Google Scholar.
• A doctoral consortium that helps participants work with senior scholars on their work-in-progress leading to journal publications.
• HICSS panels that help shape future research directions.

The Australian Government’s Excellence in Research project (ERA) has given HICSS an “A” rating, one of 32 Information Systems conferences so honored out of 241 (46-B and 146-C ratings). Data supplied by the Australian Research Council, December 2009.

References

[1] Hock Chan, Hee-Woong Kim, and Weai Chee Tan, Information System Citation Patterns from ICIS Articles, Journal of the American Society for Information Science and Technology, Vol. 57 (#9) July 2006, pp. 1263-1274.
[2] Kent A. Walstrom and Bill C. Hardgrave, Forums for information systems scholars: III, Information & Management, Vol. 39 (2001) pp. 117-124.
[3] Bill C. Hardgrave and Kent A. Walstrom, Forums for MIS Scholars, Communications of the ACM, Vol. 40 (#11) November 1997, pp. 119-124.
[4] Meho and Yang, Impact of data sources on citation counts and rankings of LIS faculty: Web of science versus scopus and google scholar. Journal of the American Society for Information Science and Technology. Volume 58, Issue 13, pages 2105-2125, November 2007.(see Table 13. Sources of citations unique to Google Scholar (1996 – 2005).

Program Coordinator

Thayanan Phuaphanthong
Shidler College of Business
University of Hawaii at Manoa
hicss@hawaii.edu

John Seely Brown
Deloitte Center for the Edge
Pardee RAND’s Member of the Board of Governors
Amazon’s Member of the Board of Directors
jsb@johnseelybrown.com