Business Journal Rankings

Journal rankings in the Business area are one of the interesting issues that academics in business schools like to talk about. There are many issues that rankings of Business journals have to confront such as the number of times articles in a journal are cited, the reputation and perception of the journal amongst Business School academics, the history of the journal, the impact factor of the journal, the editorial board and editor of the journal, the number of "classic" articles the journal has published, the rejection rate of the journal, the reputation of the authors that publish in the journal and the status of their respective Business Schools. Then other issues include the current momentum of the journal etc. Another issue concerns whether the journal is a leading "field journal" in a particular area of the Business discipline, for example, is it a leading journal in the areas of strategy, human resources, marketing, international business etc. As result there are a number of ranking tables and systems used to rank Business journals and below we list the most well known rankings of Business Journals.

Harzing.com/download/jql_journal.pdf
Professor Anne-Wil Harzing Journal Quality List is a collation of journal rankings from a variety of sources. The list was originally collated while the editor was associated with the Bradford University School of Management (1997-2001). Since then, the list has been updated and extended periodically to keep it current. The above links to the 53rd edition of 2015. Due to its comprehensiveness it is one of the most valuable ranking out there.

Bizschooljournals.com
The Association of Business Schools ranking guides aims to provide a wide authoritative guide to journal quality in the broadly defined field of business and management. The list of journals is comprehensive with a clear rating for each journal included. The latest ABS ranking is the 2015 ranking.

Scholar.google.com/citations
The Scholar google ranks journals by giving them an H-index according to their citations on scholar google. The above links to their page for Business, Economics & Management ranking page. You need to hit the subcategories button to see rankings in more detail.

Journal-Ranking.com
This provides a list of journal and you can look at how the rankings change over time as it covers 2001, 2006 and 2010. You can also change the weight of the criteria used to rank the journals.

Griffith.edu.au/business journal-rankings
The Australian Business Deans council ranks Business and Management, Economics, Accounting and Finance journals by classifying them as A*, A, B or C some 2498 journal get ranked with 217 getting A* (8.69%), 478 getting A (19.14%), 752 getting B (30.10%) and 1051 (42,07%) getting C.

som.cranfield.ac.uk/jJournalRankings
The Cranfield School of Management Journal Rankings rank economics, management and related journals according to the following quality scale 4* world-leading, 3* internationally excellent, 2* internationally recognised, 1* national quality. The above links to the 2012 rankings by subject.

Scimagojr.com/journalrank
The SCImago Journal & Country Rank is a portal that includes the journals and country scientific indicators developed from the information contained in the Scopus® database (Elsevier B.V.). The above links to the Business, Management and Accounting rankings.

lib.uwo.ca/business/Rank
The library at Western University Canada provides links to articles along with their abstracts that attempt to rank Business and Management Journals broadly defined.

aacsb.edu/journal-rankings

Association to Advance Collegiate Schools of Business provides a useful page called the Journal Rankings and Indices of Research Productivity. The list links to resources that are useful for those interested in studying the ways in which journal quality and research productivity are measured.

Eigenfactor.org
Eigenfactor.org is an academic research project by Jevin West and Carl Bergstrom and sponsored by the Bergstrom Lab in the Department of Biology at the University of Washington. The project uses recent advances in network analysis and information theory to develop novel methods for evaluating the influence of scholarly periodicals and for mapping the structure of academic research. Simply tap in an economics journal to find its eigenfactor score.

academic.research.microsoft.com
The Microsoft academic research systems provides rankings for over 1,400 economics and business journals. The above links to the rankings. You can change from filed to citation ranking to get an alternative view.

RSSfeed Ebschost Journal Rankings
The above links to an Ebsco host RSS feed that lists recent research to academic research into journal rankings. Although you won't get the articles it at least gives you the article title so you can download the article using your own library facilities if they are available.

library.auckland.ac.nz/subjectguides
The Auckland University library provides excellent links to articles and resources that are used to determine rankings in Business & Economics.

shanghairanking.com/SubjectEcoBus2015
The Shanghai University rankings for Business and Economics help to show the best Schools to study Economics and Business. Although not a ranking of Journals it gives a good idea where the best research takes place.

The Australian Business School Council Deans List
This provides rankings of business, economics, finance journals awarding them grade from A* through to D. The list is used extensively in Australia to evaluate the level of research being performed and is influential in determining appointments and promotions.


These are journal rankings in Business. We are currently working on our own listing using a variety of criteria such as impact factor, relevance to its sub field, visibility within its field, citations, rejection rates, editorial board, momentum, alternative rating systems and prestige

1)   ADMINISTRATIVE SCIENCE QUARTERLY

2)   ACADEMY OF MANAGEMENT REVIEW

3)   ACADEMY OF MANAGEMENT JOURNAL

4)    STRATEGIC MANAGEMENT JOURNAL

5)  JOURNAL OF MARKETING RESEARCH

6)  JOURNAL OF CONSUMER RESEARCH

7)   MARKETING SCIENCE

8)    JOURNAL OF MARKETING

9)    JOURNAL OF MANAGEMENT

10)   JOURNAL OF ENVIRONMENTAL ECONOMICS AND MANAGEMENT

11)   HARVARD BUSINESS REVIEW

12)  JOURNAL OF ORGANIZATIONAL BEHAVIOR

13)  JOURNAL OF CONSUMER PSYCHOLOGY

14)  JOURNAL OF BUSINESS VENTURING

15)  JOURNAL OF RETAILING

16)  CALIFORNIA MANAGEMENT REVIEW

17)  JOURNAL OF MANAGEMENT STUDIES

18)  JOURNAL OF INTERNATIONAL BUSINESS STUDIES

19)  QUANTITATIVE MARKETING AND ECONOMICS

20)  INDUSTRIAL AND CORPORATE CHANGE

21)  JOURNAL OF THE ACADEMY OF MARKETING SCIENCE

22)  JOURNAL OF PUBLIC POLICY & MARKETING

23)  JOURNAL OF ADVERTISING

24)  JOURNAL OF CONSUMER AFFAIRS

25)   MARKETING LETTERS

26)  STRATEGIC ORGANIZATION

27)  JOURNAL OF PRODUCTIVITY ANALYSIS

28)  INTERNATIONAL JOURNAL OF RESEARCH IN MARKETING

29)  BUSINESS HISTORY REVIEW

30)  JOURNAL OF PRODUCT INNOVATION MANAGEMENT

31)  JOURNAL OF ADVERTISING RESEARCH

32)  ENTREPRENEURSHIP THEORY AND PRACTICE

33)  FAMILY BUSINESS REVIEW

34)  ORGANIZATIONAL DYNAMICS

35)  LONG RANGE PLANNING

36)  PSYCHOLOGY & MARKETING

37)  CORPORATE GOVERNANCE AN INTERNATIONAL REVIEW

38)  SMALL BUSINESS ECONOMICS

39)  JOURNAL OF BUSINESS AND PSYCHOLOGY

40)  R & D MANAGEMENT

41)  TECHNOLOGICAL FORECASTING AND SOCIIAL CHANGE

42) JOURNAL OF SERVICE RESEARCH

43)  MANAGEMENT DECISION

44)  IEEE TRANSACTIONS ON ENGINEERING MANAGEMENT

45)  JOURNAL OF BUSINESS RESEARCH

46)  BRITISH JOURNAL OF MANAGEMENT

47)  BUSINESS ETHICS QUARTERLY

48)  JOURNAL OF WORLD BUSINESS

49)  MIT SLOAN MANAGEMENT REVIEW

50)  INTERNATIONAL JOURNAL OF MANAGEMENT REVIEWS

51)  JOURNAL OF INTERACTIVE MARKETING

52)  JOURNAL OF BUSINESS ETHICS

53)  JOURNAL OF INTERNATIONAL MARKETING

54)  ENTREPRENEURSHIP AND REGIONAL DEVELOPMENT

55)  INTERNATIONAL JOURNAL OF ELECTRONIC COMMERCE

56)  INTERNATIONAL JOURNAL OF MARKET RESEARCH

57)  RESEARCH-TECHNOLOGY MANAGEMENT

58)  SUPPLY CHAIN MANAGEMENT-AN INTERNATIONAL JOURNAL

59)  JOURNAL OF ENGINEERING AND TECHNOLOGY MANAGEMENT

60)  EUROPEAN JOURNAL OF MARKETING

61)  AMERICAN BUSINESS LAW JOURNAL

62)  BUSINESS HISTORY

63)  INTERNATIONAL SMALL BUSINESS JOURNAL

64)  INTERNATIONAL MARKETING REVIEW

65)  ENTERPRISE & SOCIETY

66)  INDUSTRIAL MARKETING MANAGEMENT

67)  PUBLIC RELATIONS REVIEW

68)  INTERNATIONAL BUSINESS REVIEW

69)  CANADIAN JOURNAL OF ADMINISTRATIVE SCIENCES

70)  JOURNAL OF BUSNESS AND TECHNICAL COMMUNICATION

71)  JOURNAL OF BUSINESS-TO-BUSINESS MARKETING

72)  INTERNATIONAL JOURNAL OF ADVERTISING

73)  JOURNAL OF BUSINESS & INDUSTRIAL MARKETING

74)  ELECTRONIC COMMERCE RESEARCH AND
        APPLICATIONS

75)  EMERGING MARKETS FINANCE AND TRADE

76)  ASIAN BUSINESS & MANAGEMENT

77)  ASIAN CASE RESEARCH JOURNAL

78)  SOUTH AFRICAN JOURNAL OF BUSINESS
        MANAGEMENT

79)  BETRIEBSWIRTSCHAFTLICHE FORSCHUNG UND
        PRAXIS

80)  PROCEEDINGS OF RIJEKA FACULTY OF
        ECONOMICS

81)  JOURNAL OF BUSINESS ECONOMICS AND
        MANAGEMENT

82)  ACADEMIA-REVISTA LATINOAMERICANA DE
        ADMINISTRACION

83)  TRANSFORMATIONS IN BUSINESS & ECONOMICS

84)  REVISTA DE CIENCIAS SOCIALES

85)  EMERGING MARKETS FINANCE AND TRADE

86)  JOURNAL OF BUSINESS RESEARCH

87)  FORTUNE

88)  ADVANCES IN CONSUMER RESEARCH

89)AFRICAN JOURNAL OF BUSINESS MANAGEMENT

90) ASIAN JOURNAL OF TECHNOLOGY INNOVATION

91)  BUSINESS ETHICS-A EUROPEAN REVIEW

92)  BUSINESS HORIZONS

93)  BUSINESS & SOCIETY

94) CLOTHING AND TEXTILES RESEARCH JOURNAL

95)  CUADERNOS DE ECONOMIA Y DIRECCION DE LA
         EMPRESA

96) ELECTRONIC COMMERCE RESEARCH

97) EUROPEAN BUSINESS ORGANIZATION LAW REVIEW

98)  INFORMATION SYSTEMS AND E-BUSINESS
       MANAGEMENT

99) INNOVAR-REVISTA DE CIENCIAS ADMINISTRATIVAS Y
       SOCIALES

100) JOURNAL OF MACROMARKETING