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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 (lastest update in September 12, 2016)


Top Journals in Business

Rank

Journal Title

Journal Impact Factor

1

Academy of Management Annals

21.2

2

Journal of the Academy of Marketing Science

18.2

3

Journal of Innovation & Knowledge

18.1

4

Academy of Management Review

16.4

5

Harvard business review

14.7

6

Journal of Management

13.5

7

Business Strategy and the Environment

13.4

8

Journal of Marketing

12.9

9

Journal of Hospitality Marketing & Management

12.5

10

Journal of Service Research

12.4

 

Top Journals in Economics

Rank

Journal Title

Journal Impact Factor

1

Quarterly Journal of Economics

13.7

2

Energy economics

12.8

3

Journal of economic literature

12.6

4

American Economic Review

10.7

5

Transportation research Part E Logistics and transportation review

10.6

6

Journal of Public Economics

9.8

7

Asian Economic Papers

9.7

8

Canadian journal of agricultural economics-revue canadienne d agroeconomie

9.0

9

Energy Policy

9.0

10

Journal of Financial Economics

8.9

 

Top Journals in Business, Finance

Rank

Journal Title

Journal Impact Factor

1

Finance Research Letters

10.4

2

Journal of Financial Economics

8.9

3

Financial Innovation

8.4

4

Review of Financial Studies

8.2

5

International Review of Financial Analysis

8.2

6

Journal of Finance

8.0

7

Fiscal studies

7.3

8

Journal of Behavioral and Experimental Finance

6.6

9

Research in International Business and Finance

6.5

10

Journal of Corporate Finance

6.1

 

Top Journals in Management

Rank

Journal Title

Journal Impact Factor

1

Academy of Management Annals

21.2

2

Journal of Innovation & Knowledge

18.1

3

Academy of Management review

16.4

4

Harvard business review

14.7

5

Annual Review of Organizational Psychology and Organizational Behavior

13.7

6

Journal of Management

13.5

7

Business Strategy and the Environment

13.4

8

Tourism Management

12.7

9

Technovation

12.5

10

Journal of Hospitality Marketing & Management

12.5

 

(Source: Journal Citation Reports (Social Sciences ed. 2022) ) 

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