Successes and awards

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Staff and students in the department have achieved the following successes and awards in the past:

2022 Top 100 of over 3,600 business administration researchers in German-speaking countries based on research performance between 2018 and 2022 in a ranking by WirtschaftsWoche. Top 10 based on the career performance of researchers under 40 (same ranking, Prof. Dr. Matthias Söllner).
2022 Innovation in Teaching Award of the Association for Information Systems (Prof. Dr. Matthias Söllner)

2021 Innovation Award for Digital Education delina 2021 in the category "University" (Prof. Dr. Matthias Söllner together with Thiemo Wambsganß, Christina Niklaus, Prof. Dr. Siegfried Handschuh and Prof. Dr. Jan Marco Leimeister from the Universities of Kassel and St.Gallen)
2021 Best Associate Editor of the track "Design Research and Methods in Information Systems" at ECIS 2021 (Prof. Dr. Matthias Söllner)
2021 Honorable Mention Award of the ACM CHI 2021 (for the contribution: Wambsganss, T., Kueng, T., Söllner, M., and Leimeister, J. M. 2021. "ArgueTutor: An Adaptive Dialog-Based Learning System for Argumentation Skills," in Proceedings of the 2021 CHI Conference on Human Factors in Computing Systems, Y. Kitamura, A. Quigley, K. Isbister, T. Igarashi, P. Bjørn, and S. Drucker (eds.), New York, NY, USA: ACM, pp. 1-13.(https://doi.org/10.1145/3411764.3445781).)
2021 Award for the best Master's thesis in the field of educational technologies in 2020 from the Educational Technologies Section of the Gesellschaft für Informatik e.V. (Corinne Ruckstuhl, then a student at the University of St.Gallen)
2020 Early Career Award of the Association for Information Systems (Prof. Dr. Matthias Söllner)
2020 Top 100 of over 3,300 business administration researchers in German-speaking countries based on research performance between 2016 and 2020 in a ranking by WirtschaftsWoche. Top 20 based on the career performance of researchers under 40 (same ranking, Prof. Dr. Matthias Söllner).
2020 AOM MED Division Global Forum Best Paper Award (for the article: Winkler, R., Soellner, M., and Leimeister, J. M. 2020. "Improving Students' Problem-Solving Skills with Smart Personal Assistants," Academy of Management Proceedings (2020:1), p. 11496.(https://doi.org/10.5465/AMBPP.2020.11496abstract).)
2020 ACM CHI 2020 Honorable Mention Award (for the contribution: Wambsganss, T., Niklaus, C., Cetto, M., Söllner, M., Handschuh, S., and Leimeister, J. M. 2020. "AL: An Adaptive Learning Support System for Argumentation Skills," in Proceedings of the 2020 CHI Conference on Human Factors in Computing Systems, R. Bernhaupt, F. "Floyd" Mueller, D. Verweij, J. Andres, J. McGrenere, A. Cockburn, I. Avellino, A. Goguey, P. Bjørn, S. Zhao, B. P. Samson, and R. Kocielnik (eds.), New York, NY, USA: ACM, pp. 1-14.(https://doi.org/10.1145/3313831.3376732).)
2019 Top 100 of over 2,800 business administration researchers in German-speaking countries based on research performance between 2014 and 2018 in a ranking by WirtschaftsWoche. Top 30 based on the career performance of researchers under 40 (same ranking, Prof. Dr. Matthias Söllner).
2018 Award for the best Master's thesis of 2018 in the field of e-learning from the e-learning section of the Gesellschaft für Informatik e.V. (Kevin Duss, then a student at the University of St.Gallen)
2017 Outstanding Associate Editor Award of the Organizational Communication and Information Systems (OCIS) Division of the Academy of Management (Prof. Dr. Matthias Söllner)
2016 Award for the best bachelor thesis of 2015 in the field of e-learning from the e-learning section of the Gesellschaft für Informatik e.V. (Julia Nölker, then a student at the University of Kassel)
2014 Science Prize 2013/2014 of the Department of Economics of the University of Kassel (Dissertation Prize, Prof. Dr. Matthias Söllner)