Upon all the articles on “why I rejected your paper” and books on dissertation writing, finally there is an outlet that deals with rejection anxiety: the Journal of Universal Rejection. It certainly tops all rankings if you base them on acceptance rates 
What a lovely practical joke on academics.
Gyöngyi
People tend to see birthdays as an excuse to dwell over the meaning(lessness) of life, age, or experience. Funny that we rarely see the age of people the same way we see e.g. reserve wine, cured cheese, antique furniture, relicts, glaciers… Journals, on the other hand – can be outdated, change direction and name (who recalls titles such as the Journal of Purchasing, Integrated Manufacturing Systems, or the International Journal of Physical Distribution and Materials Management?) – or continue to set the agenda. Funnily enough, IJPDLM’s 40th anniversary issue is more of an outlook to the future than a recall of history. IJOPM did not celebrate its 30th this year, nor JOM last year, though who knows, there may be a celebration of “30 years of SCM” in 2012, marking the anniversary of Oliver and Webber coining the term (allegedly in 1982 though I am yet to come across the original). Or then enter SCM 2.0, at least according to Christopher and Holweg (2011), and with that, enter an embracing of volatility and turbulence, and a move from dynamic to structural flexibility. Setting the agenda, as always.
Gyöngyi
…meaning access to the International Journal of Physical Distribution and Logistics Management is free for this week through this link. The choice of the journal is not surprising considering the news about its impact factor (to be announced for the first time in the 2011 round of the Thomson Reuters SSCI).
News for service (operations) junkies at the same time: IJPDLM calls for papers on “Applying service-dominant logic to physical distribution and logistics management“. The guest editors include the fathers of S-D logic Deadline Nov 30, 2011
Gyöngyi
Another logistics / SCM journal made it into the ISI: The International Journal of Physical Distribution and Logistics Management. This was the message from Thomson Reuters:
I am happy to inform you that the International Journal of Physical > Distribution & Logistics Management has been selected for coverage in > our products Current Contents/Social and Behavioral Sciences (CC/S&BS) > and Social Sciences Citation Index (SSCI).
We are happy, too
Gyöngyi
PS Now it is just time to wait for the actual rates and ranks of all the logistics journals that got in recently.
If you cannot make it to a “meet the editors” event (e.g. at EUROMA but also at the next NordLog of NOFOMA), you can always look at podcasts of different journals. Here’s one with the new IJPDLM editors Alex Ellinger and Glenn Richey outlining their vision for the journal.
Gyöngyi
Probably one of the most positive and constructive guidelines for reviewers has just been published as a the editors’ (Craig Carter‘s and Lisa Ellram‘s) foreword to the latest issue of the Journal of Supply Chain Management. More than a mere “why I rejected your paper”, it shows examples of how to give feedback and discusses the purpose of a review. A must read for all reviewers!
Gyöngyi
EurOMA is organising yet another publishing workshop for ops mgmt scholars. The best thing about it? Editors of OM journals (not just any journals but JOM and IJOPM) come to comment on papers and give guidance on how to convert them into articles. The target audience are OM researchers who are not native English speakers and who presented a paper at EurOMA. Congrats for introducing and keeping up this winning concept – now for the third time.
Gyöngyi
One may think there is a CFP for about every problem out there – well, because there is
Gyöngyi
And another SCM journal has been accepted for an ISI evaluation (the first rate to come out in 2012): the Journal of Supply Chain Management. Congratulations!
Gyöngyi
Notwithstanding all the good news of more SCM journals being evaluated for an impact factor, only few of them already received one. But there are quite some jumps to be noted in most of the other journals – maybe due to the cross-citations of the new ones? Here’s a list of impact factors for Elsevier journals in their decision sciences group (notably with the Journal of Operations Management making the biggest jump to an impact factor of 3.238, taking over Decision Sciences, Management Science and Omega in the rating), and some others:
Supply Chain Management – an International Journal: 2.341
Production and Operations Management: 2.08
Transportation Research Part E: 1.958
International Journal of Operations and Production Management: 1.435
Journal of Transport Geography: 1.421
Yes, it’s a convenience sample, but no, not all journals you may be searching for have a rating yet even if accepted to get one. It only takes some years in the ISI Web of Knowledge…
Gyöngyi
