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1 1 JOURNAL QUALITY LIST Fifty-seventh Edition, 18 April 2016 Compiled and edited by Professor Anne-Wil Harzing The editor welcomes corrections and additions Email: Website: Revision history Fifty-seventh Edition, 18 April 2016 Fifty-sixth Edition, 27 November 2015 Fifty-fifth Edition, 23 May 2015 Fifty-fourth Edition, 16 April 2015 Fifty-third Edition, 8 March 2015 Fifty-second Edition, 11 February 2014 Fifty-first Edition, 10 December 2013 Fiftieth Edition, 5 July 2013 Forty-ninth Edition, 8 June 2013 Forty-eight Edition, 5 February 2013 (recalled, do not use)

2 Forty-seventh Edition, 17 August 2012 Forty-sixth Edition, 13 July 2012 Forty-fifth Edition, 1 April 2012 Forty-fourth Edition, 5 March 2012 Forty-third Edition, 1 January 2012 Forty-second Edition, 16 October 2011 Forty-first Edition, 20 July 2011 Fortieth Edition, 17 June 2011 Thirty-ninth Edition, 23 April 2011 Thirty-eight Edition, 4 February 2011 Thirty-seventh Edition, 27 May 2010 Thirty-sixth Edition, 6 February 2010 Thirty-fifth Edition, 18 December 2009 Thirty-fourth Edition, 3 July 2009 Thirty-third Edition, 4 May 2009 Thirty-second Edition, 26 September 2008 Thirty-first Edition, 31 May 2008 Thirtieth Edition, 28 December 2007 Twenty-ninth Edition, 19 November 2007 Twenty-eighth Edition, 12 September 2007 Twenty-seventh Edition, 23 July 2007 Twenty-sixth Edition, 5 March 2007 Twenty-fifth Edition, 1 February 2007 Twenty-fourth Edition, 23 November 2006 Twenty-third Edition, 12 October 2006 Twenty-second Edition, 6 August 2006 Twenty-first Edition.

3 23 June 2006 Twentieth Edition, 7 May 2006 Nineteenth Edition, 7 March 2006 Eighteenth Edition, 6 January, 2006 Seventeenth Edition, 4 December, 2005 Sixteenth Edition, 13 November 2005 Fifteenth Edition, 23 July 2005 Fourteenth Edition, 28 March 2005 Thirteenth Edition, 10 January 2005 Twelfth Edition, 13 November 2004 Eleventh Edition, 11 July 2004 Tenth Edition, 9 June 2004 Ninth Edition, 6 April 2004 Eight Edition, 9 January 2004 Seventh Edition, 26 October 2003 Sixth Edition, 12 July 2003 Fifth Edition, 15 February 2003 Fourth Edition, 17 November, 2002 Third Edition, 18 July 2002 Second Edition, 13 October 2000 First Edition, 17 July 2000 Copyright 2000-2015 Anne-Wil Harzing.

4 All rights reserved. Permission to use or copy this list in its entirety is hereby granted, provided that all copies include this title page, copyright notice, and all explanatory notes. All other uses, copying, or other forms of reproduction are prohibited. 2 JOURNAL QUALITY LIST Fifty-seventh Edition, 18 April 2016 Compiled and edited by Professor Anne-Wil Harzing, Introduction The JOURNAL QUALITY List is published primarily to assist academics to target papers at journals of an appropriate standard. We would be concerned if the list were used for staff evaluation pur-poses in a mechanistic way.

5 Whilst every effort has been made to ensure the accuracy of the JOURNAL QUALITY List, we recommend that it be checked before used extensively for evaluation purposes. The editor will not be held responsible for omissions or errors. Acknowledgements The first version of the JQL was collated when the editor was with the University of Bradford School of Management (UBSM). The editor gratefully acknowledges the assistance and contri-butions of the following people: Kathy Cousens (UBSM) for the initial data entry work, Victoria Lim, Ulrike Magner, Sebastian Reiche, Dinuka Wijetunga, Shea Fan, Sofie Sch tte, Markus Goelz (all University of Melbourne) and Sara de Marco (Middlesex University) for data entry work between 2006 and 2015, Yves Barlette, Jos Benders, Yehuda Baruch, Malachy Carey, Graham Hooley, Gunther Maier, Heinz Tuselmann and Andrew Kirchner for pointing out and supplying me with various JOURNAL ranking lists and providing corrections.

6 Subject areas and abbreviations Abbreviation Subject area Bus Hist business History Comm Communication Economics Economics Entrep Entrepreneurship F&A Finance & Accounting Gen & Strat General & Strategy IB international business Innovation Innovation Marketing Marketing MIS, KM Management Information Systems, Knowledge Management OB/OS, HRM, IR Organisation Behavior/Studies, Human Resource Management, Industrial Relations OR, MS & POM Operations Research, Management Science, Production & Opera-tions Management PSM Public Sector Management Psychology Psychology Sociology Sociology Tourism Tourism 3 DISCUSSION OF THE RANKINGS [The 53rd edition removed several older rankings that were created between 2001-2005 and had not been updated since by their providers.]

7 It also removed a range of journals in non-core Eco-nomics & business areas that after removing the older rankings only appeared on a single ranking list]. EJIS 2007 European JOURNAL of Information Systems 2007 Mingers & Harzing This list provides an integrated ranking of all JOURNAL rankings available in the JQL as at Decem-ber 2005 (17th edition). The details of its construction as well as a range of additional analyses have been published in the European JOURNAL of Information Systems, vol. 16, no.

8 4. An earlier working paper is also available from #jqlrank. Two rankings are available (EJIS07 and EJIS07-CI); the second ranking includes the JIF for 2004 as part of its analysis. [Editor s note] Some journals had to be removed from this analysis because they had a very lim-ited number of rankings ( all communication journals that were only ranked on the UQ list). Further, many journals have been added to the JQL since this list was constructed. Hence, rat-ings for some 200 journals are not available. UQ 2007 University of Queensland JOURNAL Rating 2007 This list was originally constructed in 2003 in three stages: 1.

9 Construction of a mega-database (over 2,000 titles) based on ratings and rankings from over 120 sources. 2. Allocation of each title to one of 5 tiers (1 = highest, 5 = lowest) on the basis of the second highest rating from the rating/ranking sources ( , the rating must be from at least two sources). 3. The data base was supplied to the six discipline cluster leaders in the school as a resource that they could use to construct the official list (which comprises 588 journals). They could use the mega-database or any other source to justify each JOURNAL 's rating.

10 [Editor s note] In order to keep the JQL to a manageable length, lower-ranked journals (ranking 4&5) of the UQ list were only added if they already featured in the JQL. An exception was made for Entrepreneurship/Communication journals, since they were underrepresented in the other ranking lists included in the JQL. [Editor s note] The JQL includes the updated (2007) version of the UQ list. Unfortunately, no in-formation is available on the process that was followed in updating in the 2003 list. Rank Interpretation 1 Highest QUALITY rating 2 Intermediate QUALITY ratings 3 4 5 Lowest QUALITY rating AST 2008 Aston March 2008 New version of the Aston lists originally published in 1999/2003/2006.