With the recently published preface on "The future of fintech — Towards ubiquitous financial services" the third special issue on financial technology (fintech) in the journal Electronic Markets s completed. The special issue was organized by Rainer Alt, Gilbert Fridgen and Younghoon Chang and…
In December 2023, a new cooperation agreement was signed between the Faculty of Economics at Leipzig University and the School of Tourism and Hotel Management at Kyung Hee University in Seoul, South Korea. The aim is to intensify cooperation in the field of smart tourism in the form of research…
A new fundamental on assistant platforms by Rainer Schmidt, Rainer Alt and Alfred Zimmermann has been published in the academic journal Electronic Markets. It is a fundamental article on the assistance systems that have emerged in recent years, such as voice (e.g. Alexa, Siri, Messenger) and text…
At the International Conference on Information Systems (WI 2023) in Paderborn on September 21, three teams of authors presented their work in the conference track "Innovative Prototypes & Impact of IS". The track, organized by Rainer Alt, Susanne Leist (University of Regensburg) and Stefan Morana…
The Chair Application Systems was present at two international academic conferences in September:
From 06.-09.09.23 at the 15. Mediterranean Conference on Information Systems (MCIS) and 6. Middle East & North Africa Conference on Digital Information Systems (MENACIS) in Madrid with a presentation…
The Impact Factor (IF) for the Electronic Markets Journal (EM) has grown again and it has now reached 8.5! This is a significant improvement if compared to the 2021 IF of 6.017.
The IF is released by Clarivate and has become of the key metrics for scientific publications. As mentioned in more…