IGI Global Announces the 2023 Journal Reviewer Award Winners

Prof. Arpan Kar is Professor and Endowed Chair Professor in Information Systems in Indian Institute of Technology Delhi, India. Administratively he chairs Corporate Affairs and is a member of few other administrative committees. He works on the adoption, usage and user experiences of emerging ICTs, often using computationally intensive machine learning driven methods. He has authored over 200 publications and edited 15 books, of which over 80 publications are ABDC A, ABS 3 and WoS Q1 level journals, and 16 publications are ABDC A* publications. As of December 2023, his research has been cited over 15,000 times with an H index of 57. He is the Editor in Chief of International Journal of Information Management Data Insights, published by Elsevier. He is a Senior Editor in Decision Support Systems (ABDC A*, SSB). He is an Associate Editor in International Journal of Information Management (ABDC A*), Communications of the AIS (ABDC A), Journal of Computer Information Systems (ABDC A), Global Journal of Flexible Systems Management (ABDC A), etc. He has been a Guest Editor for top journals like Journal of the Association for Information Systems, Decision Support Systems, Industrial Marketing Management, International Journal of Information Management (twice), Information Systems Frontiers (twice), Australasian Journal of Information Systems, etc. He has undertaken over 25 sponsored projects from national and international organizations and over 20 long duration executive education programs. He received the Research Excellence Award by Clarivate Analytics for highest individual Web of Science citations from 2015-2020. He received the 2020 BK Birla Distinguished Researcher Award for the count of ABDC A* publications over 5 years. He is the recipient of the Best Seller Award from Ivey / Harvard Cases in 2020 for his case Tech Talk on social media analytics. He has received over 20 other awards for his research, teaching and services from national and international organizations including 8 best paper awards in IFIP, ACM and IEEE conferences.

Prof. Jan Frick earned his Master’s degree from NTNU, Trondheim in 1980 and his Ph.D. from Aalborg University, Denmark in 1991. He has lectured on Operations Management, Lean Management, and Entrepreneurship at the University of Stavanger Business School since 1991. Prof. Frick has chaired the Cluster for Industrial Asset Management (CIAM) since 2018. Additionally, he founded Sirdal Skisenter and has been Chairman of the Board since 2004. He has been the CEO of Beinesdalen Utvikling since the same year.