Paper title (Paper Title style) Australasian Journal of Information Systems Lamp 2018, Vol 22, Editorial Annual Report 1 Annual Report John Lamp AJIS Editor-in-Chief Deakin Business School Deakin University AJIS has continued to grow and develop in 2017. Fourteen general research articles appeared, and a further 46 in the following special sections (Table 1) on research areas and enhanced conference papers: Special Section Papers Research on Applied Ethics Involving Emerging ICT Technologies 4 Research on Health Information Systems 8 Research on Indigenous use of Information and Communication Technologies 10 Selected Papers from the Australasian Conference on Data Mining (AusDM) 9 Selected Papers from the Australasian Conference on Information Systems (ACIS) 5 Table 1: Special sections published in 2017 One of the highlights of the year was recognition of the significance of the special section on Indigenous use of Information and Communication Technologies by the University of Southern California’s Centre on Public Diplomacy (Fig 1) Figure 1: http://uscpublicdiplomacy.org/story/indigenous-peoples-digital-diplomacy Australasian Journal of Information Systems Lamp 2018, Vol 22, Editorial Annual Report 2 The traditional measures of journal reputation have also improved this year with the AJIS h- index jumping three points to 35. AJIS readership continues to improve (Fig 2), and special note must be made of the increasing readership in Southern Asia, up 72.2%, and Northern America, up 41.3%. Figure 2: AJIS Regional Readership In 2017 182 papers were submitted, up 18% on 2016. This continues to place a significant demand on Section Editors and Reviewers, without whom AJIS could not function. Their input, as always is vital, and very much appreciated. To assist with recruitment of reviewers I presented a workshop at the 2017 Australasian Conference on Information Systems (ACIS) Doctoral Consortium on journal publication, the reviewing process, and the benefits to PhD students, in particular, of participating in this activity. Part of the session involved the students assessing several anonymised submissions as if they were reviewers. As well as getting a better understanding of the process, students got to see papers as they were submitted, rather than as they would appear. The session was very well received, and I have been asked to run it again at the ACIS 2018 DC. The five most popular AJIS articles in 2017 were: Baskarada, S., & Koronios, A. (2013). Data, Information, Knowledge, Wisdom (DIKW): A Semiotic Theoretical and Empirical Exploration of the Hierarchy and its Quality Dimension. Australasian Journal of Information Systems, 18(1). doi: http://dx.doi.org/10.3127/ajis.v18i1.748 Parkes, A. (2000). Is a Picture Worth a Thousand Words? The Use of Non-Text Items in Information Systems Research. Australasian Journal of Information Systems, 8(1). doi: http://dx.doi.org/10.3127/ajis.v8i1.258 Pham, H., Pham, D., Brennan, L., & Richardson, J. (2017). Information Security and People: A Conundrum for Compliance. Australasian Journal of Information Systems, 21. doi: http://dx.doi.org/10.3127/ajis.v21i0.1321 0 2000 4000 6000 8000 10000 12000 14000 Australasia Northern America Southern Asia Southeast Asia Northern Europe Western Europe Western Asia Eastern Asia Eastern Africa South America 2016 2017 Australasian Journal of Information Systems Lamp 2018, Vol 22, Editorial Annual Report 3 Seddon, P. , & Kiew, M. (1996). A Partial Test and Development of Delone and Mclean's Model of IS Success. Australasian Journal of Information Systems, 4 (1). doi : http://dx.doi.org/10.3127/ajis.v4i1.379 Swatman, P. (1994). Business Process Redesign Using EDI: the BHP steel experience. Australas ian Journal of Information Systems, 1 (2). doi: http://dx.doi .org/10.3127/ajis.v1i2.422 It is very good to see Pham et al (2017) in the top five in its year of publication. The AJIS Advisory Board has been most helpful as always and I must acknowledge them. Australasian Association for Information Systems Deborah Bunker, University of Sydney Don Kerr, University of the Sunshine Coast Australian Council of Professors and Heads of Information Systems Caroline Chan, RMIT University Glenn Stewart, Queensland University of Technology Professors and Heads of Information Systems, New Zealand Annette Mills, University of Canterbury Felix Tan, Excelsia College To all those who have given their time to AJIS in 2017, many thanks, you know we would not exist without your valuable input. Copyright: © 2018 Lamp. This is an open-access article distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial 3.0 Australia License, which permits non- commercial use, distribution, and reproduction in any medium, provided the original author and AJIS are credited. http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc/3.0/au/