Perspectives on computer personnel research

Research appearing in Computer Personnel has focused on a number of topics between April 1994 and January 1998, the most consistent topic concerned the careers of information systems professionals. In preparation of articles, researchers have used a variety of references for their work. A surprising number of texts have been cited; the number of text citations is about 30% of the number of journal citations.The time period studied represents the first four years of Computer Personnel being a blind, peer reviewed journal. This article will review citations during this four year period and will make comparisons of the citations to recent journal rankings in Communications of the ACM.