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Journals used in the Financial Times Research Rank

The list below details the 50 journals used by the Financial Times (FT) in compiling the FT Research rank, included in the Global MBA, EMBA and Online MBA rankings.

1. Academy of Management Journal
2. Academy of Management Review
3. Accounting, Organizations and Society
4. Administrative Science Quarterly
5. American Economic Review
6. Contemporary Accounting Research
7. Econometrica
8. Entrepreneurship Theory and Practice
9. Harvard Business Review
10. Human Relations
11. Human Resource Management
12. Information Systems Research
13. Journal of Accounting and Economics
14. Journal of Accounting Research
15. Journal of Applied Psychology
16. Journal of Business Ethics
17. Journal of Business Venturing
18. Journal of Consumer Psychology
19. Journal of Consumer Research
20. Journal of Finance
21. Journal of Financial and Quantitative Analysis
22. Journal of Financial Economics
23. Journal of International Business Studies
24. Journal of Management
25. Journal of Management Information Systems

26. Journal of Management Studies
27. Journal of Marketing
28. Journal of Marketing Research
29. Journal of Operations Management
30. Journal of Political Economy
31. Journal of the Academy of Marketing Science
32. Management Science
33. Manufacturing and Service Operations Management
34. Marketing Science
35. MIS Quarterly
36. Operations Research
37. Organization Science
38. Organization Studies
39. Organizational Behavior and Human Decision Processes
40. Production and Operations Management
41. Quarterly Journal of Economics
42. Research Policy
43. Review of Accounting Studies
44. Review of Economic Studies
45. Review of Finance
46. Review of Financial Studies
47. Sloan Management Review
48. Strategic Entrepreneurship Journal
49. Strategic Management Journal
50. The Accounting Review

Source: 50 Journals Used in FT Research Rank (Last updated on September 12, 2016)

Top Journals in Business

Rank	Journal Title	Journal Impact Factor
1	Academy of Management Annals	16.5
2	Journal of Innovation & Knowledge	15.5
3	Academy of Management Review	13.9
4	Business Strategy and the Environment	13.3
5	Technological Forecasting and Social Change	13.3
6	Journal of Retailing and Consumer Services	13.1
7	Journal of Research in Interactive Marketing	11.6
8	Journal of Hospitality Marketing & Management	11.0
9	International Journal of Management Reviews	10.8
10	Academy of Management Journal	10.5

Top Journals in Economics

Rank	Journal Title	Journal Impact Factor
1	Energy Economics	14.2
2	Quarterly Journal of Economics	12.7
3	Journal of Financial Economics	12.0
4	American Economic Review	11.6
5	Annual Review of Economics	11.4
6	Oeconomia Copernicana	10.8
7	NBER Macroeconomics Annual	10.7
8	Journal of Economic Literature	10.6
9	Journal of Finance	9.5
10	Energy Policy	9.2

Top Journals in Business, Finance

Rank	Journal Title	Journal Impact Factor
1	Journal of Financial Economics	12.0
2	International Review of Financial Analysis	9.8
3	Journal of Finance	9.5
4	British Accounting Review	9.4
5	Management Review Quarterly	9.0
6	Review of Finance	8.4
7	Journal of International Financial Management & Accounting	8.2
8	China Finance Review International	7.6
9	Financial Innovation	7.2
10	Sustainability Accounting, Management and Policy Journal	7.2

Top Journals in Management

Rank	Journal Title	Journal Impact Factor
1	Annual Review of Organizational Psychology and Organizational Behavior	31.1
2	Academy of Management Annals	16.5
3	Journal of Innovation & Knowledge	15.5
4	Academy of Management Review	13.9
5	Business Strategy and the Environment	13.3
6	Human Resource Management Review	13.0
7	Tourism Management	12.4
8	Journal of Strategic Information Systems	11.8
9	Journal of Hospitality Marketing & Management	11.0
10	Technovation	10.9

(Source: Journal Citation Reports (Social Sciences ed. 2024) )

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