Management Journal Impact Factors 2008
20 June 2009
| Nicolai Foss |
The new ISI impact factors for 2008 have just been released. There are lots of surprises this time. The biggest one is arguably that Organization Science is now out of the top 10 range, a long drop from its #4 status in 2006 (this sucks when you got two recent papers, one forthcoming and one R&R, at this journal :-( ). The second surprise, at least to me, is that the Journal of Management has made it to #5. One possible explanation is its rather influential yearly review issues. Another surprise is that Organization Studies, which was among the top 10 in 2006, has now moved down a lot to close to #30. The Journal of Management Studies, while not among the top 10 this year, has not been harmed as badly, dropping to #14. ASQ, once the undisputed top-management journal, is now #9. Less surprising is Academy of Management Review’s #1 position (it is usually among the top 3), and that the Strategic Management Journal is #4.
The rank order down to LRP at # 36 is: AMR – AMJ – MIS Q – SMJ – JoM – ORM – JIBS – AMLE – ASQ – OBHD – RP – JPIM – Org. Sci. – JMS – RoB – JoM – JOperationsM – IMA – JMIS – Man Sci -DS – IRS – LQ – Omega – R&D Man – GOM – JIT – Techno. – Org. Stud. – Brit. JoM – Adv. Strat Man. - HBR – Int Small Bus. J – Int. J. Oper. Prod. M. – Int. J. Man. Rev. – Int. J of Forec. – LRP
A new feature of the list is the inclusion of a five-year impact factor which, given the rather turbulent movements from year to year, makes a lot of sense (and which produces a rather different rank order from the above!).
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CM Hsieh | 22 June 2009 at 5:51 am
hi nicolai, don’t currently have access to ISI so a quick inquiry… is the JoM at #5 different from the JoM at #16 in the ranking quoted above?? i can’t think of a JoM other than Journal of Management… -cm
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Ashish | 22 June 2009 at 7:41 am
I dont have acess to new journal Impact factors relased for 2008. Could anyone kindly let me know the impact factor for the :Journal of hazardous materials and journal of environmental management
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Russ Cof | 23 June 2009 at 5:47 am
Given how much people “dis” the AoM journals, it is interesting that they remain at the top. Really surprised about ASQ & OS… What’s with that?
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Stine Grodal | 13 July 2009 at 12:15 am
Hi Nicolai,
I hate to talk methods, but here I go! :-)
When searching the ISI it is an important choice how you sort the list. I think that you might have sorted by “impact factor”, which looks at how many time a specific journal is cited. However, I think that a better measure is “article influence score”, which measures how many times each article within journal is cited. With “Impact factor” ournals that publish many articles shoot to the top of the list ,whereas a selective journal like ASQ suffers. As researchers we should focus on “article influence score”, because that is the true indicator of how many people are actually going to read our work.
Further note that ISI has both a “management” and a “business” category. I think that the most robust results are created by using both.
So – Nicolai – congrats on those Org. Science pubs! Because when you look at “article influence score” Org. Science flies into the 8th spot after AMR, AMJ, ASQ, MISQ, Research in Organizational Behavior, Journal of Marketing and SMJ.
Best,
Stine Grodal
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Joel West | 13 July 2009 at 3:43 pm
Nicolai,
I hate to quibble over something small, but by my count LRP is at #37.
Joel
1. AMR
2. AMJ
3. MIS Q
4. SMJ
5. JoM
6. ORM
7. JIBS
8. AMLE
9. ASQ
10. OBHD [OBHDP]
11. RP
12. JPIM
13. Org. Sci.
14. JMS
15. RoB
16. JoM
17. JOperationsM
18. IMA
19. JMIS
20. Man Sci
21. DS
22. IRS
23. LQ
24. Omega
25. R&D Man
26. GOM
27. JIT
28. Techno.
29. Org. Stud.
30. Brit. JoM
31. Adv. Strat Man.
32. HBR
33. Int Small Bus. J
34. Int. J. Oper. Prod. M.
35. Int. J. Man. Rev.
36. Int. J of Forec.
37. LRP
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Dr. Md. Ehtesham Ul Hoque | 8 September 2009 at 5:50 am
I would like to get the Journal Impact Factor 2008.
Thanks.
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Ram Mudambi | 14 December 2009 at 4:48 pm
Nicolai:
As you know, along with colleagues at Temple, I have been doing some research in this area. Impact factors have so many weaknesses, I would abandon using them.
SSCI now provides an Article Influence Score that fixes many (though not all) of the problems of impact factors.
Check out the journal ranking using that. You will see that Org Sci (2.851) significantly outperforms JIBS (1.513), for example.
Best,
Ram
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Manu | 11 February 2010 at 1:22 am
Hello Nicolai,
Could you let me know the SSCI for the Journal of Management & Organization ?
Thanks.
Manu
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Terry | 12 July 2010 at 9:14 am
Anybody knows the impact factors for 2009? I heard they are just published.
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cm | 3 August 2010 at 6:16 am
2009 impact factors for management journals rank as follows:
amr – amj – misq – smj – jom – rob – p psych – strategic org – asq – jibs – j op m – org sci – omega – jms – obhd – orm – techno – decision sci – scm – ijmr – inform mgmt – res policy – amle – man sci – lead quarterly – msom – org stud – jmis – corp gov – j inf tech – job – cal mgmt review – gom – tourism mgmt – j int mgmt – info systems – hbr – human relations – lrp – oper research