Jan Marco Leimeister new Co-Editor-in-Chief of the Journal of Information Technology (JIT) as of July 1, 2020.

Prof. Dr. Jan Marco Leimeister, Head of the Department of Information Systems and Director of the Scientific Center for Information Technology Design (ITeG) at the University of Kassel, will take on the role ofCo-Editor-in-Chief of the renowned Journal of Information Technology(JIT) from July 1, 2020. JIT is an A-journal according to the JOURQUAL3 ranking of the Association of University Professors of Business Administration(VHB) and is one of the eight leading international journals in the field of information systems in the "Senior Basket of Journals". Leimeister is currentlyDeputy Editor-in-Chief of this journal.

Jan Marco Leimeister, who is also Full Professor of Information Systems and Director at the Institute of Information Systems (IWI HSG) at the University of St.Gallen, is also already a member of the boards of various high-ranking information systems journals: for example, Associate Editor of the European Journal of Information Systems(EJIS), member of the Editorial Board of the Journal of Management Information Systems(JMIS) and member of the Department Editorial Board and Section Editor of the Journal Business & Information Systems Engineering(BISE).

Leimeister has received several international awards for his research and teaching achievements, including the TUM Research Excellence Award in 2010 and the AIS Award for Innovation in Teaching in 2016. In its 2019 research performance ranking, Wirtschaftswoche ranks Jan Marco Leimeister as the 4th strongest business administration professor in terms of research performance based on publication output over the last 5 years and 8th in the ranking of lifetime achievements based on publication output since the start of his career (out of 2,824 business administration researchers surveyed).