Journal Quality List

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31 May 2008 - Compiled and edited by Prof. Anne-Wil Harzing

Introduction

The Journal Quality List is a collation of journal rankings from a variety of sources. It 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 purposes in a mechanistic way. The list was originally collated while the editor was associated with the Bradford University School of Management (1997-2001). Since then, the list has been updated and extended periodically to keep it current. It is now in its 31st edition.

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. The current version of the JQL contains 20 different rankings of 907 journals.

Copyright © 2000-2008 Anne-Wil Harzing. All rights reserved.
Permission to use or copy this list in its entirety is hereby granted, provided that all copies include the title page, copyright notice, and all explanatory notes. All other uses, copying, or other forms of reproduction are prohibited.

See also

• Publish or Perish, a software program that retrieves and analyzes academic citations
• Ranking Journals in Business and Management: A Statistical Analysis of the Harzing Dataset
• Research quality, journal rankings and the RQF - slides of a presentation given at the 2005 ANZIBA executive meeting, discussing Australian research quality and impact in a comparative perspective.
• Research quality - a comparative perspective - slides of a presentation given at ESC Toulouse October 2006, discussing Australian and French research quality and impact in a comparative perspective.
• Publish or Perish - a presentation on publishing in good journals and getting cited; given at Manchester Business School, April 2008.
• The value of Google Scholar for extended impact monitoring - a presentation given at the ERIM workshop on research impact, March 2008.

The following two websites maintained by the libraries of the University of Western Ontario and the University of Auckland respectively provide a comprehensive collection of articles about the ranking and rating of journals in the broad fields of business and management.

• University of Western Ontario Western Libraries journal ranking page.
• Business journal rankings/impact factors & PBRF a literature review (University of Auckland).

Finally, there is a useful page on John Lamp's website which provides quick, efficient access to the over 21,000 records which constitute the ERA journal ranking list.

What's in the list

The Journal Quality List comprises academic journals in the following broad areas: Economics, Finance, Accounting, Management, and Marketing. Where available, the rankings for each journal from the following sources are included:

• Australian Business Deans Council 2008
• British Association of Business Schools (ABS) Ranking 2008
• Aston University 2008
• University of Queensland 2007
• European Journal of Information Systems 2007 (with and without CI)
• Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique 2007
• Financial Times Ranking 2006
• Erasmus Research Institute of Management Journals Listing 2006
• Cranfield University School of Management 2006
• Theoharakis integrated ranking 2005
• Hong Kong Baptist University School of Business 2005
• ESSEC Business School Paris 2005
• British Journal of Management 2004
• Verband der Hochschullehrer für Betriebswirtschaft 2003
• Wirtschaftsuniversität Wien 2001
• Strategic Management Journal 1999
• Dutch Business Administration academics 1999
• Virginia Commonwealth University 1998
• Nottingham University 1995

Download information

The Journal Quality List is available for downloading by using the link below. The download package contains three versions of the JQL: by journal title, by subject area, and by ISSN.

Journal Quality List (31 May 2008, 502 KB ZIP file)

Note - The JQL is provided in Adobe® Acrobat® (PDF) format; you will need Acrobat Reader 3.0 or later to read the JQL. Acrobat Reader is available free of charge from Adobe's web site www.adobe.com.

To extract the PDF files from the ZIP package, you will need an UnZip program, for example WinZip (Microsoft Windows) or StuffIt Expander (Apple Macintosh).

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