The DSIS faculty has a research leader in their research fields for many years. Recently the DSIS faculty of the School of Management was ranked among the top 20 in the world for research productivity in a study published by the Association for Information Systems (AIS). The study was based on research published from 1999 to 2003 in the top five information systems journals; four high-visibility, multi-discipline journals; and two prominent computer science periodicals. In total, the five-year study covers 1,592 research papers dealing with the discipline of information systems management, authored by 2,442 researchers in the field.
The collective and individual research leadership of the DSIS faculty has been recognized in many ways, including:

• Best Journal Paper of the Year Award (Association for Information Systems, SIG-DSS, 2006)
• DSIS faculty ranks among top 20 in the world for research productivity dealing with electronic commerce (2006 Business Research Yearbook)
• Author of fourth-most downloaded article in Q1 published in Information & Management (Elsevier, 2006)
• Top-ten electronic commerce author (2006 Business Research Yearbook)
• Author of research article in the top 1% of its field based on number of citations received since 2000 (Thomson’s Essential Science Indicators, March 2005)
• Author of the most downloaded research article in Q1 and fourth-most downloaded article in Q2 published in Decision Support Systems (Elsevier, 2005)
• Author of the second-most downloaded research article in Q4 published in Decision Support Systems (Elsevier, 2004)
• Author of ninth-most downloaded article in Q3 published in Information & Management (Elsevier, 2004)
• Authors of 4 refereed chapters in the definitive Encyclopedia of Information Systems (Academic Press, 2002)
• Two recipients of the R&D Excellence Program Award (Governor of Kentucky, Kentucky Science and Engineering Foundation, 2002)
• Best Interdisciplinary Paper Award (Decision Sciences Institute Annual Meeting, 2002)
• Authors of the 3rd and 5th most requested articles of 2001 published in the Journal of Strategic Information Systems (Elsevier, 2002)
• Authors of the 1st and 8th most requested articles of 2001 published in Decision Support Systems (Elsevier, 2002)
• 21st best-published author in ten selected journals over a 5-year period (Communications of the Association for Information Systems, 2000)
• 7th best-published researcher in Information and Management over a 17-year period (Information and Management, 2000)
• 14th best-published researcher in MIS Quarterly over a 17-year period (Information and Management, 2000)
• The DSIS faculty places 7th in terms of the overall impact of its faculty’s research on the DSS field (DATA BASE, 1995).
• DSIS faculty ranks among the top 15 in terms of the frequency with which its publications have been cited by published research in the decision support systems field (DATA BASE, 1994).
• DSIS faculty ranks 11th among U.S. universities in decision support systems research based on citations to published work (Decision Support Systems, 1993)
• Author of 2nd-most publications cited by decision support system articles over a 19-year period (Decision Support Systems, 1993)
• 5th most frequently cited U. S. academic author by decision support system articles published over a 19-year period (Decision Support Systems, 1993)
• 29th most frequently published MIS writer over a 9-year period (Socio-Economic Planning Sciences, 1991)

The publication record of DSIS faculty is among the top 20 worldwide in the area of decision support system (DSS) applications development research (Decision Support Systems, 1990).