2017 Scholar Metrics Released

Scholar Metrics provide an easy way for authors to quickly gauge the visibility and influence of recent articles in scholarly publications. GS is releasing the 2017 version of Scholar Metrics. This release covers articles published in 2012–2016 and includes citations from all articles that were indexed in Google Scholar as of June 2017.

To get started, you can browse the top 100 publications in several languages, ordered by their five-year h-index and h-median metrics. To see which articles in a publication were cited the most and who cited them, click on its h-index number to view the articles as well as the citations underlying the metrics.

You can also explore publications in research areas of your interest. To browse publications in a broad area of research, select one of the areas in the left column. For example: Top publications for FINANCE category.

2016 Google Scholar Metrics

This year's release covers "articles published between 2011 and 2015, both inclusive. The metrics are based on citations from all articles that were indexed in Google Scholar in June 2016.

This also includes citations from articles that are not themselves covered by Scholar Metrics."

Methodology, coverage and inclusion criteria are available from this page.

Exple: Top 10 publications for Marketing category:

1.            Journal of Business Research

2.            Journal of Marketing
3.            Journal of Consumer Research
4.            Industrial Marketing Management
5.            Journal of Marketing Research
6.            Journal of the Academy of Marketing Science
7.            European Journal of Marketing
8.            Journal of Consumer Psychology
9.            Marketing Science
10.          Journal of Retailing

Browse the top 100 publications

2015 Google Scholar Metrics

This year's release covers "articles published between 2010 and 2014, both inclusive. The metrics are based on citations from all articles that were indexed in Google Scholar in June 2015. This also includes citations from articles that are not themselves covered by Scholar Metrics."

Methodology, coverage and inclusion criteria are available from this page.

Exple: Top 10 publications for Game Theory and Decision Science category:

1. Journal of Economic Behavior & Organization
2. Games and Economic Behavior
3. Organizational Behavior and Human Decision Processes
4. arXiv Computer Science and Game Theory (cs.GT)
5. ACM Conference on Electronic Commerce
6. Journal of Behavioral Decision Making
7. Experimental Economics
8. Theoretical Economics
9. Decision Sciences
10. Journal of Risk and Uncertainty

2015 Academic Reputation Survey

Thomson Reuters released its 6th annual Academic Reputation Survey:
“Exploring Scholarly Trends and Shifts Impacting the Academic Reputation of the World’s Leading Universities”. 

The report analyzes the key trends and shifts in global research influencing institutions’ academic standings. It covers 65,000 academics from 6,500 universities in 105 areas of study.

Top 100 most cited papers

The Journal Nature has partnered with Thomson Reuters Web of Science database to determine the top 100 most cited papers.

Looking at 100 years of data, and the 58 million items stored in the Web of Science database, 3 articles have been cited more than a 100 000 times, all published prior to 1980, all in the biology field.

Google Scholar came up with an alternative ranking, click to see the comparison for 10 papers.

Latest JCR released, see the top journals in your field!

Thomson Reuters has released its latest Journal Citation Report.

You can access this tool on your library page here.

Here are the top 10 journals by impact factor for the Economics category

1. Journal of Economic Literature  
2. Journal of Finance          
3. Quarterly Journal of Economics
4. Journal of Economic Perspective              
5. Transportation Research part b-methodological
6. Journal of Financial Economics  
7. Journal of Political Economy       
8. Review of Financial Studies        
9. Econometrica   
10. Journal of the European Economic Association

2013-2014 AAUP Faculty Salary Survey

Another survey on faculty salary in the US.
The table is available on the Chronicle of Higher Education website:

Journal ranking by Scopus

The SCImago Journal & Country Rank is a "portal that includes the journals and country scientific indicators developed from the information contained in the Scopus database."

It offers finer levels of business and management categories than the - more well-known - Journal Citation Report by ISI Web of Knowledge.

Methodology

Example for top 5 journals in

Subject Area: Business Management & Accounting

Subject Category: Organizational Behavior and Human Resources Management 

SCImago. (2007). SJR — SCImago Journal & Country Rank.

Retrieved January 27, 2014, from http://www.scimagojr.com

Hat tip to The University of Manchester Library Business Research Plus blog.

Top 10 journals by impact factor - Latest JCR is released

Thomson Reuters released its latest Journal Citation Report (2012 data)

• 10,854 titles appear in the 2013 release of JCR. 
• 379 journals will be posting their first Journal Impact Factor this year. 
• 67 titles were suppressed from this year's release. (methodology used to suppress titles)

"Suppressed titles were found to have anomalous citation patterns resulting in a significant distortion of the Journal Impact Factor, so that the rank does not accurately reflect the journal’s citation performance in the literature." 

Top 10 Journals in Business, Finance by impact:

1. Journal of Finance
2. Journal of  Accounting & Economics
3. Journal of Financial Economics
4. Review of Financial Studies
5. IMF Economic Review
6. Accounting Review
7. IMF Staff Papers
8. Journal of Financial Intermediation
9. Journal of Accounting Research 
10. Accounting Organizations and Society 

INSEAD community: login here to start using JCR. 

Top 10 journals in Management, Finance & Economics

The latest edition (2011) of the Journal Citation Reports has just been released. Academics can use this tool to rank several journals in different disciplines according to various fields such as Total Cites, Immediacy Index, Impact Factor and more.
Top 10 Journals in Management by Impact Factor

1. Academy of management review
2. Academy of Management Journal
3. Academy of Management Learning & Education
4. Journal of  Management
5. Academy of Management Annals
6. MIS Quarterly
7. Journal of Operation Management
8. Organization Science
9. Journal of Applied Psychology
10. Journal of Management Studies

Top 10 Journals in Finance by Impact Factor

1. Review of Financial Studies
2. Journal of  Finance
3. Journal of Financial Economics
4. Journal Accounting & Economics
5. Accounting  Organizations and Society
6. Journal of Banking and Finance
7. Accounting Review
8. Journal of Accounting Research
9. IMF Economic Review
10. Review of  Accounting Studies

Top 10 Journals in Economics by Impact Factor

1. Journal of Economic Literature
2. Quarterly Journal of Economics
3. Review of Financial Studies
4. Journal of  Finance
5. Journal of Economic Perspectives
6. Economic Geography
7. American Economic Journal-Macroeconomics
8. Journal of Financial Economics
9. Brookings Papers on Economic Activity
10. Journal Accounting & Economics

The Journal Impact Factor is defined as the number of citations in 2011 to items published in the previous two years, divided by the total number of items published in those same two years. 

For more categories and variables INSEAD users can login here.
Note: once on the platform, Business, Management, Finance, Economics and Psychology related fields are within the Social Sciences Edition -- Operations Research & Management is within the Science Edition.

Top 10 management journals by impact factor

The 2010 Journal Citation Report from Thomson Reuters has just been released.

• Covers more than 9,100 journals from over 2,200 publishers in approximately 230 disciplines from 78 countries.
• The Sciences Edition covers over 6,500 journals; the Social Sciences Edition covers over 1,900.
• Cited and citing journal statistics from 1997 forward.

Access the Journal Citation Report on the Library page to view more rankings by disciplines.

Top 10 management journals by impact:

1. Academy of Management Review
2. Academy of Management Annals 
3. Academy of Management Journal
4. Journal of Operations Management
5. MIS Quarterly
6. Research in Organizational Behavior
7. Organizational Research Methods
8. Journal of International Business Studies
9. Journal of Business Logistics
10. Journal of Management Studies  

Corporate Recruiters Survey 2011

The Graduate Management Admission Council (GMAC) has released its Corporate Recruiters Survey 2011 report.

Trends:

• School ranking comes before academic quality for MBA recruiters (see related article from CNN Money)
• Globally, more companies are hiring in 2011 and the average number of new hires is expected to increase. 
• In 2011, European companies are poised to exceed the average annual starting salary that US employers plan to offer MBA graduates.
• Demand for MBA graduates in the United States is expected to be strongest in the finance, accounting, health care, pharmaceutical, consulting, and high-tech sectors; in Europe, energy and utilities; and in Asia, high technology, products and services, finance, and accounting. 

Professional Ranking of World Universities

2011 results of the Ecole des Mines ranking. This is the fifth edition, for previous years click here.
This school ranking is based on the number of alumni now CEOs (or equivalent) on the Fortune 500 2010 list.

Top 5

1. Harvard
2. Tokyo
3. Keio
4. HEC, France
5. Kyoto

2010 Rankings: Doctoral Programs in America - Home - The Chronicle of Higher Education

2010 Rankings: Doctoral Programs in America - Home - The Chronicle of Higher Education

Trial page offered by the Chronicle. For source data check the National Research Council page:

The National Research Council released the Data-Based Assessment of Research-Doctorate Programs on September 28, 2010. The report consists of a descriptive volume, and a comprehensive data table in Excel containing data on characteristics and ranges of rankings for over 5000 programs in 62 fields at 212 institutions.