Editor's Comments: The Evolution of Research in MIS Quarterly Over Five Decades

Summary

The MISQ editor-in-chief's 50th-volume editorial mapping shifts in topics, methods and scholarly perspectives across all 1,963 MISQ papers - and doing so BY USING AI, explicitly acknowledged in the text ('I turned to AI with the help of Sandeep Suntwal'). It is therefore both a substantive history of the discipline and a first-person instance of the flagship IS journal's editor running an AI-assisted research pipeline on the discipline's own corpus, which makes it unusually citable for a paper about AI-driven research in IS.

Contribution

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Method

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Relevance to RISE

Surfaced by the 2026-08-29 literature sweep as a high-priority candidate for the RISE knowledge base (angle: IS / management discourse on GenAI research). Verified against: AISeL article record opened 2026-08-29 (title, single author Susan A. Brown, MISQ 50(2):iii-xi, 2026, editorial, AI-usage statement read); misq.umn.edu returns HTTP 403

Critique / open questions

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