My Advisor II

In this posting, I am gonna talk a little bit more about the academic background of my advisor: Dr. Angsana. Yet it is boring to rephrase every piece in her CV, which we can easily get through this link: http://faculty.ist.psu.edu/angsana/angsana_cv.pdf. The latest publications of a scholar can best interpret who the scholar academically. By the end of this September, Dr. Angsana has got two journal articles and eight conference papers published. From the topics of these publications, it is not hard to see that Dr. Angsana's research areas are pretty broad, spanning from mobile phones, municipal wireless broadband, to virtual world and community technology. Perhaps in the eyes of many scholars, Dr. Angsana's publication list is a little bit shorter in terms of the quantity of publications. I do know there is an assistant professor who has more than 70 papers in the last few years. However, the quality of the publication is at least as important as, if not more than, the quantity. Dr. Angsana is sort of emphasizing the quality. For example, one of her articles has been published in the Journal of Journal of the Association for Information Systems, one of the premier journals in the field of MIS. It is something. I know that assistant professors face the pressure of getting tenured and the publication is known as an important indicator to evaluate the academic performance. Whether the quantity or quality matters more varies from school to school and from area to area. As far as we PhD students concerned, what is our strategy in terms of making our writing published? I think that is a tradeoff we should carefully make.