Informing Science Institute
Exploring Better Ways to Inform
Programs and results
What we aim to solve
Many teachers, professors, and others are expected by their employers to conduct research and disseminate it in a journal. Yet, in many cases, the employers do not provide resources and education on how to do so. We are established to fill this gap while also mentoring our volunteers.
Our programs
What are the organization's current programs, how do they measure success, and who do the programs serve?
Publish our own academic journals
We publish eight academic journals open access so that scholars from around the world have easy access to their science.
Informing Science + Information Technology Education (InSITE) Conference
Alumni to our international conference InSITE (http://InSITE.nu) often mention the conference as among the best organized and most supportive conference they have attended.
Typically, the conference begins with optional pre-conference networking opportunities that combine seeing the country, often with talks on country-specific topics of interest, with the hugely important chance to network with potential future research collaborators. The networking enables building the trust relationships needed to sustain long-distance research collaboration.
The conference itself combines tracks of presentations of research papers, plenary sessions that provide for keynote speakers and mini-workshops on topics related to your professional development.
The conference also includes a day of professional development workshops.
Where we work
External reviews

Our results
How does this organization measure their results? It's a hard question but an important one.
number of colleagues who have signed up
This metric is no longer tracked.Totals By Year
Related Program
Publish our own academic journals
Type of Metric
Output - describing our activities and reach
Direction of Success
Increasing
Number of unique website visitors
This metric is no longer tracked.Totals By Year
Type of Metric
Output - describing our activities and reach
Direction of Success
Increasing
Number of reports written/published
This metric is no longer tracked.Totals By Year
Related Program
Publish our own academic journals
Type of Metric
Output - describing our activities and reach
Direction of Success
Holding steady
Our Sustainable Development Goals
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Goals & Strategy
Learn about the organization's key goals, strategies, capabilities, and progress.
Charting impact
Four powerful questions that require reflection about what really matters - results.
What is the organization aiming to accomplish?
What is your organization aiming to accomplish?
The Informing Science Institute (ISI) is a mentoring organization. One of the Informing Science Institute’s core principles is helping our fellow colleagues to become better and better: better as an author, as a reviewer, as an editor, and as an editor-in-chief. We use the peer review process of our journals to support author colleagues by providing them with constructive suggestions on improving their work even if a submitted article is not accepted for publication. Our Editors-in-Chief assist reviewers and editors by being coaches and guides to the authors, reviewers, and editors.
ISI Research Topics
ISI current focus is to encourage the sharing of knowledge and collaboration among a wide variety of fields, often using information technology to advance the multidisciplinary study of informing science. These areas can include Business, Communications, Communicating Meaning, Community and Society, Computer Science, Data Management, Distance Education, eCommerce, Education, eLearning, Government, Health Care, History, Information and Library Science, Journalism, Justice and Law, Mathematics, Management, Philosophical Issues, Psychology, Public Policy, Sociology, and Human Resources.
What are the organization's key strategies for making this happen?
ISI is a family of volunteers worldwide who believe in the value of knowledge sharing. We have created several professional journals in specific fields. Each journal is staffed by several hundred volunteer reviewers, paper editors, and editors-in-chief. The paper’s author submits their paper for review. The journal’s editor-in-chief first reviews it. If the paper is turned down, the editor-in-chief sends the author a development letter containing ideas on improving the paper. Otherwise, the editor-in-chief assigns an editor to the paper and typically five reviewers. The reviewers write mentoring suggestions for the paper. The paper’s editor uses these suggestions and the editor’s own to create a development letter for the paper. The editor’s development letter is reviewed by the editor-in-chief, who either accepts the development letter’s wording or sends it back to the editor with mentoring comments on how to improve that letter. If the author accepts the revision requests, the author submits a revised paper and a letter describing how the revision addresses each of the suggestions in the development letter. Or the author may withdraw the paper at this point. This process continues until the editor recommends acceptance of the paper for publication. If the editor-in-chief approves the editor’s recommendation for acceptance, the paper is passed on to the journal’s publisher, who conducts the final quality control.
What are the organization's capabilities for doing this?
We measure our success by the number of volunteer colleagues, the number of website visits, the number of papers submitted, and the number of papers published.
What have they accomplished so far and what's next?
Currently, we have 12 academic journals, hold an annual international conference in a different country, have over 10,000 colleagues and members from 75+ countries and from 600+ organizations. We receive 6000+ website visits per month. In addition, we have published over 50 books that are available on Amazon in paper format and free online.
Financials
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Operations
The people, governance practices, and partners that make the organization tick.
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Informing Science Institute
Board of directorsas of 08/23/2023
Professor T. Grandon Gill
University of South Florida
Term: 2019 - 2024
Mathews Nkhoma
RMIT University, Vietnam
Michael Jones
University of Wollongong, Australia
Elizabeth Boyd
Informing Science Institute
Eli Cohen
Informing Science Institute
Meg Murray
Kennesaw State University, USA
Grandon Gill
University of South Florida, USA
Board leadership practices
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Board orientation and education
Does the board conduct a formal orientation for new board members and require all board members to sign a written agreement regarding their roles, responsibilities, and expectations? No -
CEO oversight
Has the board conducted a formal, written assessment of the chief executive within the past year ? No -
Ethics and transparency
Have the board and senior staff reviewed the conflict-of-interest policy and completed and signed disclosure statements in the past year? Yes -
Board composition
Does the board ensure an inclusive board member recruitment process that results in diversity of thought and leadership? Yes -
Board performance
Has the board conducted a formal, written self-assessment of its performance within the past three years? No
Organizational demographics
Who works and leads organizations that serve our diverse communities? Candid partnered with CHANGE Philanthropy on this demographic section.
Leadership
The organization's leader identifies as:
Race & ethnicity
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