Category Archives: Journal ranking

JSCM’s brand-new impact factor

Posted on October 5, 2011 by | Leave a comment

So the Journal of Supply Chain Management didn’t have to wait one more year after all :-) It’s impact factor has now been announced to be an astonishing 5.853, which puts it second(!) in the category of management journals (for the case you wonder, the Academy of Management Review is first). Congrats to the editors Craig Carter & Lisa Ellram and their team!

Here’s a quote from their happy e-mail:

“We are delighted to inform you that Thomson-Reuters’s updated 2010 Impact Factors were just released. We are very pleased to announce that the Journal of Supply Chain Management received an exceptional 2010 ISI Impact Factor of 5.853, placing JSCM 2nd among 144 management journals encompassed within Thomson Reuters’s Social Sciences Citation Index . . . These impact factors are based on 2010 citations of articles published in 2008-2009.”

Gyöngyi

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Recent ISI ratings of logistics / SCM journals – including new ones for JBL, IJPDLM, IJLRA

Posted on August 3, 2011 by | Leave a comment

Quite a few logistics and SCM journals got their first ever ISI rating* recently, including JBL, IJPDLM, IJLRA etc. Others are still in the queue and will probably get their first rate next year. But here is a list of some that already have a rating:

Let’s start with the “newbies” on the list – NB! the ratings are quite impressive and compare rather well to the “oldies”:

JBL: 3.905
IJPDLM: 2.617
IJLRA (IJoL): 0.558

And here are some others (in alphabetical order), with the 5-year rates in brackets if available:

Dec.Sci (DSJ): 2.233 (3.937)
EJOR: 2.158 (2.512)
IJOPM: 1.812 (2.792)
IJPE: 1.988 (2.411)
IJPR: 1.033 (1.469)
Interfaces: 0.826 (1.115)
JOM: 5.093 (6.029)
MS (ManSci): 2.221 (3.966)
Omega: 3.467 (3.733)
POM: 1.851 (3.147)
SCMIJ (SCM): 2.473 (3.427)
TJ: 2.348 (2.853)
TRE: 1.954 (2.516)

Ok, some disclaimers: This doesn’t include all MS/OR journals but the highest rate I found among those (so far) was MIS Quarterly with 5.041 (9.821). I may also just have missed some journals. So feel free to add them and their rates in the comments section!

Also, rates depend on whether journals that actually cite a journal are captured by the ranking system, how many numbers (and articles) a year a journal publishes etc.  Anyhow, this is it for now.

Gyöngyi

*abbreviations as follows: ISI rate = Thomson Reuters ISI Web of Knowledge rate from their Journal Citation Report; JBL = Journal of Business Logistics, IJPDLM = International Journal of Physical Distribution and Logistics Management, IJLRA (IJoL) = International Journal of Logistics Research and Applications. The rest can be found through the links.

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A fresh approach to journal rankings

Posted on June 14, 2011 by | Leave a comment

Just when all these SCM journals are about to get their first ISI ratings, the Australian Research Council (ARC) took a fresh, different approach to journal rankings – the one of abolishing overall rankings. As they argue, their excellence in research exercise will be able to capture multidisciplinary research better, will leave room for applied research, enable the possibility for (only?) regional impact etc. The importance of regional impact has also been discovered in the Nordic countries now calling for Nordic journals. Journal quality is still of essence but no more as a stand-alone factor. But here is the press release of the ARC decision.

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A meta-ranking of OM journals

Posted on March 22, 2011 by | Leave a comment

… or rather, Petersen, Aase and Heiser (2011) used meta-analysis for looking at citation analyses of OM journals, linking them to different streams and disciplines. A bit like the three amigos, though they seemingly have more such friends, and these friends have quite different views on the journals in the analysis… Nice reading while all sorts of SCM journals are waiting for their first ever impact factor by Thomson Reuters ISI Web of Knowledge or whichever combination of these terms applies right now.

Gyöngyi

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Rejection anxiety

Posted on February 2, 2011 by | 4 Comments

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

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Journal of the week: IJPDLM

Posted on November 30, 2010 by | Leave a comment

…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

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International Journal of Physical Distribution and Logistics Management in ISI

Posted on November 11, 2010 by | 2 Comments

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.

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The impact of open access

Posted on September 22, 2010 by | 3 Comments

Who said open access journals were of worse quality? The broad disciplines of SCM research, social sciences and engineering might not have embraced “gold” open access (through the journal itself) but articles can often be found online anyway – see Björk et al. (2010). The impact is astonishing: not only are open access articles downloaded quicker and more frequently, but they are also cited more. When it comes to the article that published the research on the matter, it has already been downloaded over 6,000 times in the first three months of its publication, and quoted in Nature and Science, including a podcast. Furthermore, most interestingly, PLoS One, the open access journal it was published in, received an ISI impact factor of 4.3 after just 4 years of publication. If this isn’t dream impact, what is?

Gyöngyi

PS. Thanks to Bo-Christer Björk for this discussion over lunch.

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Journal of Supply Chain Management in ISI

Posted on July 26, 2010 by | 4 Comments

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

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2009 jumps in impact factors

Posted on June 28, 2010 by | 3 Comments

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

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