The creation of the AIS College of Senior Scholars' basket of journals (SSB) was an attempt to address the perception that, compared with other fields, only a few Information Systems (IS) journals were widely considered elite-level journals in tenure and promotion cases. We propose that the creation of the SSB provided a signal to the IS field that conveyed an additional stock of symbolic capital to the journals in the SSB. We theorize that the symbolic capital signal provided by the SSB changed the individual publication behaviors of IS researchers, specifically regarding collaboration and submission concentration. We observe that this behavioral change reduced journal participation inequality and influenced journal quality metrics for journals included and excluded from the SSB. We report a study using 5830 articles from ten journals over sixteen years (2000–2015). Our results suggest that IS scholars responded to the symbolic capital signal of the SSB in a bifurcated manner. Regarding IS research production, the level of collaboration increased at most journals, and a broader group of IS researchers published in those journals. This shift in behavior led to a reduction of inequality regarding institutional and geographic representation in publishing. However, we also report unexpected variation in the journal quality metrics of SSB journals vis-à-vis non-SSB journals that suggest that IS researchers largely ignored the SSB signal from a research consumption standpoint. Finally, we provide several recommendations for the continued evaluation of the SSB by the Senior Scholars and tenure and promotion committees.

AIS College of Senior Scholars's Bag of Journals (SSB) 的创建是为了解决这样一种看法，即与其他领域相比，只有少数信息系统 (IS) 期刊被广泛认为是在任期和晋升方面的精英级期刊案件。我们建议 SSB 的创建为 IS 领域提供了一个信号，该信号向 SSB 中的期刊传递了额外的象征性资本。我们的理论是，SSB 提供的象征性资本信号改变了 IS 研究人员的个人发表行为，特别是在协作和提交集中方面。我们观察到，这种行为变化减少了期刊参与不平等，并影响了 SSB 中包含和排除的期刊的期刊质量指标。我们报告了一项研究，使用了来自 16 年（2000-2015 年）十种期刊的 5830 篇文章。我们的研究结果表明，IS 学者以分叉的方式回应 SSB 的象征性资本信号。在 IS 研究成果方面，大多数期刊的合作水平都有所提高，并且更广泛的 IS 研究人员群体在这些期刊上发表。这种行为转变导致出版业机构和地域代表性方面的不平等减少。然而，我们还报告了 SSB 期刊相对于非 SSB 期刊的期刊质量指标的意外变化，这表明从研究消费的角度来看，IS 研究人员在很大程度上忽略了 SSB 信号。最后，我们为高级学者和任期和晋升委员会对 SSB 的持续评估提供了一些建议。