Comments on: Management Journal Impact Factors 2008

By: Ram Mudambi

Ram Mudambi — Fri, 17 Feb 2012 20:42:53 +0000

This analysis was already done in a paper we wrote in 2005 – finally now published in Scientometrics:

http://www.springerlink.com/content/e712x112vkp200t6/

We have the further and stronger result that in many years, the top 10 percent of papers in A- journals like Research Policy outperform the top 10 percent of papers in A journals like AMJ.

So it is the paper that matters, NOT the journal in which it was published. Evaluating scholars on the basis of where they have published is pretty meaningless. Some years ago, we had a senior job candidate with EIGHTEEN real ‘A’ publications – it turned out he had only 118 total citations on Google scholar. So his work was pretty trivial, even though it appeared in top journals.

By: Bruce

Bruce — Fri, 17 Feb 2012 18:06:34 +0000

There is an interesting paper by Joel Baum on this … Free Riding on Power Laws: questionining the validity of the Impact Factor as a measure of research quality in organization studies – Organization (2011) 18(4) pp. 449-466 – he does an nice analysis of citations, and shows (what many of us suspected) that citations are highly skewed to a small subset of articles, so the idea of an impact factor which is based on a mean citation rate is erroneous. He concludes that “Impact Factor has little credibility as a proxy for the quality of eitehr organization studies journals of the articles they publish, resulting in attributions of journal or article quality that are incorrect as much or more than half the time. The clear implication is that we need to cease our reliances on such non-scientific, quantitative characterisation to evaluate the quality of our work”

By: BeaumShevitz Arundanandtatmula

BeaumShevitz Arundanandtatmula — Tue, 06 Dec 2011 05:44:54 +0000

Nicolai Foss? As a 1st year Management PhD student with an interest in knowledge creation theory, I am glad to see such a respected scholar in the field posting to an online community. It makes top scholars seem more accessible, though I am told it is a small world in academia. Thanks for the impact factor info (albeit 3 years old by now), as it is a common question for me as I read and try to get a handle on all these journals.

By: K Ravi Prakash

K Ravi Prakash — Tue, 15 Nov 2011 10:42:17 +0000

Request to please provide me a list of Management Journals with impact factor 2011. pdf or any other format.I’m searching for this information but am unable to get the source as to where this info. is available. Please help me. Ravi Prakash – Research Scholar-OU

By: Arpan Kar

Arpan Kar — Tue, 12 Jul 2011 15:39:43 +0000

Hi, Can you plz mail me a copy of the report to arpan.kumar.kar@gmail.com
It will be really helpful for me.

By: Nandi

Nandi — Fri, 08 Apr 2011 06:34:47 +0000

I need to have a list of top 50 MANAGEMENT journals with impact factor 2010.

By: Rupesh Kumar.M

Rupesh Kumar.M — Sat, 05 Mar 2011 04:24:27 +0000

I need to have a list of MANAGEMENT journals with impact factor 2010.

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management journal rankings, crowdsourced « orgtheory.net — Sat, 15 Jan 2011 04:37:29 +0000

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By: Cristiano

Cristiano — Tue, 16 Nov 2010 17:21:17 +0000

Hi. Please. What is the full name of journals “techno” and “Gom”? Thank you.

By: cm

cm — Tue, 03 Aug 2010 11:16:21 +0000

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