MISQ Local Language Promotion

Language bias is one of many biases that affect science, and one that we are committed to reducing.

Even though MIS Quarterly is an English-language journal, we seek to promote our work as widely as possible, beyond the English language, to maximize the accessibility and impact of the research we publish and to attract as many good papers from around the world as possible. 

MIS Quarterly’s Local Language Promotion initiative is run by volunteer leaders from significant language groups. 

If you are a representative from a non-English speaking language, and if you would like to volunteer to lead a promotion initiative in your local language, please contact us:

• Andrew Burton-Jones (Editor-in-Chief) abj@business.uq.edu.au
• Saonee Sarker (Director of Diversity, Equity, and Inclusion) saonee.sarker@ics.lu.se
• Carolina Salge (Social Media Director) calsalge@uga.edu

Further information:

• This local language initiative is an action item in MISQ’s Diversity, Equity, and Inclusion statement.  For details, please see: https://misq.umn.edu/misq/downloads/download/editorial/742/
• For MISQ’s other social media promotion activities, please see: https://misq.umn.edu/research-curations/  
• For background on language bias in science, please see:  https://doi.org/10.1038/s41562-021-01137-1

Local Languages

Mandarin Chinese:

We have begun our local language promotion initiative with Mandarin Chinese. 

• Introductory post:  https://mp.weixin.qq.com/s/2kloOsucKxNqHTTWgGu40w
• MISQ Impact Promotion Leaders - China: (listed alphabetically):

• • Zhenhui Jack Jiang, The University of Hong Kong 
  • Sean Xin Xu, Tsinghua University
  • Xue Yang, Nanjing University (team coordinator)
  • Qiang Ye, Harbin Institute of Technology