Biography

Dr. Arpan K. Kar is full Professor of Information Systems in Indian Institute of Technology Delhi, India where he holds the AS Gupta Endowed Chair Professorship. He works in the interface of adoption, usage, user experience and governance of emerging ICTs and Digital Platforms, mostly with computationally intensive and empirical mixed research methods. He has authored over 200 publications and edited 15 books, of which over 100 publications are in ABDC A, ABS 3 and WoS Q1 level journals, and 18 are ABDC A* publications. His publications have been cited over 20,000 times and he has an H Index of 65.

He is an Associate Editor in A ranked journals like Communications of the Association for Information Systems, Journal of Computer Information Systems, Global Journal of Flexible Systems Management, Applied Operations and Analytics and International Journal of Electronic Government Research. He was the founding Editor in Chief of International Journal of Information Management Data Insights, which is a Q1 journal published by Elsevier (2020-2024). He has earlier been Senior/Associate Editor of reputed journals like Decision Support Systems, International Journal of Information Management, Journal of Public Affairs, and Sage Open. He is also on the Editorial Board of multiple A and A* level journals like JSIS, IJIM, JBR, GIQ, JGIM etc. He has been a Guest Editor for reputed journals like Journal of the Association for Information Systems, Decision Support Systems, International Journal of Information Management, Industrial Marketing Management, Information Systems Frontiers, Australasian Journal of Information Systems, etc.

He received the Research Excellence Award by Clarivate Analytics for highest individual Web of Science citations from 2015-2020 in India. He received the BK Birla Distinguished Researcher Award based on the count of ABDC A*/ABS 4 level publications between 2014 - 2019 in India. He is the recipient of the Best Seller Award from Ivey / Harvard in 2020 for his authored case on social media analytics based on 5 years sales. In total, he has received over 20 national and international awards including 8 best paper awards from ACM, IFIP and IEEE conferences.