Organizational Behavior Journals and Ranking …

1 1 Organizational Behavior Journals and Ranking Information A. College of Business list of superior and very good Journals Highlighting indicates Journals in which my research is published JCR1 (2008) Cabell s2 (2009) Zickar & Highhouse 3 (2001) Tahai & Meyer 4 (1999) Podsakoff et al. 5 (2005) Superior Journals Academy of Management journal -- 3 2 3 Academy of Management Review -- 4 6 2 Administrative Science Quarterly 9-11% 6 3 1 journal of Management 12% 7 17 10 Organizational Behavior and Human Decision Processes 10-15% 5 4 7 Very Good Journals Academy of Management Learning and Education 6-10% Academy of Management Perspectives 11-20%

2 Group and Organization Management 10% Tier = 52 24 Human Relations 15% Tier = 11 18 journal of Applied Behavioral Science NA 21-30% journal of Business and Psychology .41 21-30% Tier = journal of Business Research .94 6-10% 27 journal of Management Education NA 15% journal of Management Studies 5-8% 27 15 journal of Organizational Behavior 10% 8 48 14 journal of Organizational Behavior Management.

3 60 20% Leadership Quarterly 15% Tier = 26 Organization 5-10% Organizational Dynamics .69 10% 40 Organizational Research Methods 15% 9 Small Group Research.

4 82 21-30% 2 Supporting Research for COB Ranking Table 1 2008 journal Citation Reports (Thomson Reuters, 2008): JCR gives the journal impact factors. The impact factor of a journal is calculated based on a rolling two-year period. It can be viewed as the average number of citations in a year given to those papers in a journal that were published during the two preceding years. The median impact factor for business Journals is (N=77) and for management Journals is (N = 89). 2 Cabell s Directory of Publishing Opportunities, online, Management edition. This source gives self-report data from publication outlets regarding their acceptance rate.

5 It is widely cited, and is often used as the statistic of last resort when impact factors are not available. 3 Zickar & Highhouse (2001) report the top ten Journals in industrial- Organizational psychology. The study included 23 Journals , and data came from surveys of 500 Society for Industrial- Organizational Psychology members assessing their stated preferences. Results were separated for psychology and business respondents; the business responses are reported here. Their rankings are indicated on this list by a single digit between 1 and 10. They also report Ranking statistics on other Journals , dividing them into three tiers.

6 Tier 1 Journals offer uniformly high quality. Tier 2 routinely have high quality articles, but the content is uneven. Tier 3 Journals routinely publish article with suspect methodology. Lower scores represent higher prestige. A score close to 2 is acceptable for our very good Journals . 4 Tahai & Meyer (1999) base their results on the frequency of citation of the 65 most cited management Journals in the top 17 management Journals available in the Social Science Citation Index. These top 65 Journals accounted for over 70% of the academic citations available for analysis. Thus, inclusion in the study already suggests that the journal has some influence.

7 The numbers in the table represent the journal s rank. 5 Podsakoff et al. (2005). Their study includes the 28 Journals most frequently included in the previous Ranking studies and additional sub-discipline Journals . For each journal they collected citation data from ISI from 1981 through 1999. They ranked the Journals on total number of citations during that time period (1981-1999) and also ranked average citations per article to adjust for differences in the number of articles published in each journal . The Ranking on the table above is based on citations per article. B. Refereed Journals not included on College of Business Ranking list Descriptions of Journals and acceptance rates.

8 1. Employee Responsibility and Rights journal Cabell s: 21-31% This journal is in the process of qualifying for ISI listing. No impact factors are currently available. Under its new editor, downloads of articles have increased dramatically. Using the statistics for January to April downloads, its growth was: 2007, 3621 downloads; 2008, 6972 downloads; 2008, 11942 downloads (according to information provided from the editor, compiled by its publisher Springer). It specializes in topics relevant to diversity and discrimination. 3 journal scope, directly from the journal : Employee Responsibilities and Rights journal fosters development of the field of employee relations by presenting high-quality, peer-reviewed original research articles and by linking practitioner concerns involving the employment relationship with academic rigor.

9 The journal is interdisciplinary in focus, drawing from a broad range of disciplines including ethics, Organizational Behavior , law, economics, sociology, social psychology, industrial and employment relations, administrative and Organizational studies, and philosophy to further the understanding of both employee responsibilities and rights. The journal offers an international forum for the publication of scholarly peer-reviewed original research including qualitative and quantitative empirical studies, case studies, critical commentaries, and conceptual and dialectic presentations. 2. International journal of Organizational Analysis Cabell s: 15% acceptance rate Aims & Scope: The aim of the International journal of Organizational Analysis is to provide a robust and discursive forum for the study and analysis of organization.

10 IJOA welcomes historical, contemporaneous and visionary discussions that provide insights into the phenomenon and practice of organization. With concern for the form of organizations, the IJOA seeks studies of, for example, private, public, voluntary, co-operative, military Organizational situations. Equally, the journal welcomes explorations of alternative , emergent and futuristic Organizational dimensions and dynamics. In tandem with these foci, the IJOA invites analyses and commentaries engaging a wide range of disciplinary, inter-disciplinary, methodological, epistemological and ontological perspectives espousing normative and critical positions.