Editorial

Abstract

For the past thirty years (since 1992) the Journal of Decision Systems (JDS) has published research articles, conceptual and empirical, from the perspective of both academia and practice. Throughout this period, JDS has established itself as a forum for researchers and practitioners who seek to understand how to best support decision makers, through designing, implementing and evaluating decision support systems. At this present time JDS continues to encourage research that draws on different backgrounds, theories, and methodologies; particularly welcoming research articles that seek to open up the black box of decision support and decision-making in a way that produces new insights with clear practical implications. As the editorial team, we believe that the journal is also making a difference within the community and provides a valuable community-visible outlet for scholarly research and practical insights articles. The Scopus CiteScore for JDS increased to 2.1 in 2019 (calculated on 6 May 2020). Also, the top 10 ‘Most Read Articles’ in JDS have accumulated 115,544 views (as at 17 February 2021), with a max/min range of 19,290 to 6,454 views, respectively. So published research in JDS has visibility. As regards recognition of quality, JDS is one of two decision-focused journals ranked by the Chartered Association of Business Schools (CABS) under INFO-MAN on their Academic Journal Guide. JDS is currently ranked at ‘1ʹ. JDS is also one of two decision-focused journals rated ‘B’ on the Australian Business Deans Council (ABDC) Journal Quality List (0806 Information Systems journals). Finally, as of 2016, JDS is also listed on the ESCI (emerging sources citation index). In 2020, the JDS editorial team commenced an enhancement project to improve the response time to authors from ‘submission-to-decision’ for their research article. For all research articles submitted, that pass the initial screening stage, we are now consistently operating to an eight-week turnaround (guaranteeing a double blind review at a minimum) and we are continuously looking to improve this turnaround time. We are striving to provide high quality developmental feedback in a timely fashion to all contributing authors. As an editorial team, we hope that JDS is viewed as an outlet that meets the needs of both the academic and practitioner communities who seek to understand how to best support decision makers, through designing, implementing and evaluating decision support systems. In this issue, we include four research papers that examine a number of decisionmaking environments. In article 1, Liu and Prybutok (2021) examine the factors that impact an individual’s decision to continue to use a cloud-based service. In article 2, Steenweg et al. (2021) combine simulation and optimisation approaches to tackle the highly complex decision problem of assigning employees to a shift when there is a high level of uncertainty in the decision situation. Next, in article 3 and in response to recent research, Croitor et al. (2021) examine web browser extension developers’ decision to continue to use web browser platforms for extension publishing. Finally, in article 4, JOURNAL OF DECISION SYSTEMS 2021, VOL. 30, NO. 1, 1–3 https://doi.org/10.1080/12460125.2021.1899762