Publishing in the right place or publishing the right thing: journal targeting and citations’ strategies for promotion and tenure committees

European Journal of International Management

Volumn 2, Issue 2, 2008, Pages 122-127

  Segalla, Michael ^a  

^a HEC PARIS   (France)

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EID: 84969452341     PISSN: 17516757     EISSN: 17516765     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1504/EJIM.2008.017765     Document Type: Article

References (12)

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2. Mingers, J. and Harzing, A-W. (2007) ‘Ranking journals in business and management: a statistical analysis of the Harzing Dataset’, European Journal of Information Systems, Vol. 16, No. 4, pp.303–316.
3. Publish or Perish, version 2.4.2894. www.harzing.com
4. The period was chosen to correspond with the SOM – University of Texas at Dallas dataset of top journal articles and because Harzing’s PoP cites evidence that pre-1990 web searches are more often erroneous compared to post 1990 searches. The journals are: Academy of Management Review, Academy of Management Journal, Administrative Science Quarterly, Organization Science and Strategic Management Journal. To overcome the Google Scholar imposed a search limit of 1000 items, 17 individual searches were made, each limited to a one year period.
5. Three matching criteria were used separately
6. The School of Management, University of Texas at Dallas, maintains a database of all articles published.
7. http://scientific.thomson.com/free/essays/journalcitationreports/impactfactor/.
8. Thomson offers advice about how to use its citation impact analysis including several variations for two year, five year, self-citation exclusions and journal title changes.
9. http://scientific.thomson.com/free/essays/journalcitationreports/impactfactor/.
10. The University of Texas at Dallas database includes: Academy of Management Review, Academy of Management Journal, Administrative Science Quarterly, Organization Science, Strategic Management Journal and the Journal of International Business Studies. Minger and Harzing (2007) place the Academy of Management Review, Academy of Management Journal, Administrative Science Quarterly, and Strategic Management Journal in a ‘top 30’ list. The Financial Times list of journals includes all of these two sets, plus the Management International Review.
11. To enumerate this total effectively, the search was constrained to nine subject terms (strategy or organisation or management or firm or strategic or business or manager or executive or organisation) and several limiters (Scholarly (Peer Reviewed) Journals; Document Type: Article; Publication Type: Academic Journal; Publication Type: Journal Article). This biases the results toward the underreporting of the total number of managerial articles published. For the five top journals the figures are exact.
12. Business Source Complete is a bibliographical database service owned by EBSCO Information Services, www.ebsco.com.