Latest honors and awards

  • October 2022 received the best Department Editor (DE) award of the year at the Decision Sciences Journal (DSJ)

  • March 2022 ranked 28th (tied) for all-time h-index rankings of living and deceased worldwide IS scholars, “The H-Index for Management Information Systems,” University of Arizona, AI Lab

  • In 2022 received the JAIS 2021 Best Paper Nomination for the following publication: Sebastian W. Schuetz, Paul Benjamin Lowry, Daniel A. Pienta, and Jason Bennett Thatcher (2021). “Improving the design of information security messages by leveraging the effects of temporal distance and argument nature,” Journal of the Association for Information Systems (JAIS), vol. 22(5), pp. 1376–1428 (doi: https://doi.org/10.17705/1jais.00697)

  • In 2022, for the 10-year period between 2012–2021, he was ranked 1st in the world for the top-8, 2nd for the top-6, and 3rd for the top-4 journals; for the 5-year period between 2017–2021, he was ranked the 3rd most productive information systems (IS) scholar in the world for publishing in the top–8 journals, 4th for the top-6 journals, and 14th for the top-4 journals.

  • Received the 2020–2021 Award for Outstanding Faculty in Doctoral Education, Pamplin College of Business, Virginia Tech

  • In 2021, Paul was ranked the 1st most productive information systems (IS) scholar in the world for publishing in the top–8 journals, 2nd for the top-6 journals, and 5th for the top-4 journals–all between 2016–2020; for the 10-year period between 2011–2020, he was ranked 1st in the world for the top-8, 2nd for the top-6, and 2nd for the top-4.

  • 15-June-2020, the following paper was selected as the runner up for the 2019 best paper award at the Journal of Information Technology (JIT): Nik Rushdi Hassan, Lars Mathieson, and Paul Benjamin Lowry (2019). “The process of information systems theorizing as a discursive practice,” Journal of Information Technology (JIT), vol. 34(3), pp. 198-220 (doi: https://doi.org/10.1177/0268396219832004)

  • In 2020, was selected as a member of the AIS College of Academic Leadership

  • In 2020, Paul was ranked the 1st most productive information systems (IS) scholar in the world for publishing in the top–8 and top-6 journals and ranked 2nd for the top-4 journals (one spot behind Viswanath Venkatesh)–all between 2015–2019; for the 10-year period between 2006–2019, he was ranked 3rd in the world (behind Viswanath Venkatesh and Izak Benbasat) for both the top-6 and top-8 journals and 4th (after Viswanath Venkatesh, Andrew Whinston, and Izak Benbasat) for the top-4 journals.

  • In 2019, Paul was ranked the 1st most productive IS scholar in the world for publishing in the top–8 and top-6 journals and ranked 2nd for the top-4 journals (one spot behind Viswanath Venkatesh)–all between 2014–2018; for the 10-year period between 2007–2018, he was ranked 2nd in the world (one spot behind Viswanath Venkatesh) for the top-6 journals and 4th (behind Viswanath Venkatesh, Andrew Whinston, and Izak Benbasat) for the top-4 journals.

  • In 2018, Paul was ranked the 1st most productive IS scholar in the world for publishing in the top-6 journals and ranked 2nd for the top-4 journals (one spot ahead Viswanath Venkatesh)–all between 2013–2017; for the 10-year period between 2006–2017, ranked 3rd in the world (behind Izak Benbasat and Viswanath Venkatesh) for the top-6 journals and 4th (tied with Paul Pavlou) for the top-4 journals.

  • In 2017, he was ranked the 2nd most productive (normal count; one spot behind Viswanath Venkatesh) IS scholar in the world for publishing in the top-6 journals and ranked 2nd for the top-4 journals–all between 2012–2016; for the 10-year period between 2005–2016, ranked 5th in the world for the top-6 journals and 6th (tied with Ritu Argarwal) for the top-4 journals.

  • On December 15, 2019, as awarded at ICIS 2019 in Munich Germany, Paul was selected in the inaugural group from the Association for Information Systems, as “AIS Distinguished Member, Cum Laude”

  • December 1, 2019 the Decision Sciences Institutes selected the following paper as a finalist for the 2019 best paper award at the Decision Sciences Journal: Frederik von Briel, Christoph Schneider, and Paul Benjamin Lowry (2019). “Absorbing knowledge from and with external partners: The role of social integration mechanisms” Decision Sciences Journal (DSJ), vol. 50(1), pp. 7–45 (doi: http://dx.doi.org/10.1111/deci.12314).

  • On October 19, 2018 he received the Operational Research Society’s Stafford Beer Medal for the best paper published in The European Journal of Information Systems (EJIS) in 2017; for the following paper: Rachida Parks, Heng Xu, Chao-Hsien Chu, and Paul Benjamin Lowry (2017). “Examining the intended and unintended consequences of organisational privacy safeguards enactment in healthcare,” European Journal of Information Systems (EJIS), vol. 26(1), pp. 37–65.

  • June 15, 2018 received best reviewer award for The Dewald Roode Workshop on IS Security Research 2018, IFIP WG 8.11 / 11.13

  • April 10, 2018 received “College Excellent Ph.D. Supervision Award 2017,” for Ph.D. supervision and placement results from when I worked at the City University of Hong Kong