An Analysis of Twenty-Five Years of Research in the Journal of International Business Studies
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JOURNALOF INTERNATIONALBUSINESS STUDIES, FOURTHQUARTER1994
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the fourth-quarterissue as well as the four articles on Professional Lives in InternationalBusiness. Table 1 also shows the numberof pages published each year and the averagepage length per article. In each of JIBS' first three years, the total number of pages per year did not reach 200, which was less than 100 per issue. Since 1992, over 800 pages per year, or about200 per issue have been published. Despite the substantialincrease in the numberof pages and the associated rise in printing and postage costs, the cost of membership in the Academy of InternationalBusiness (AIB)-which includes a JIBS subscription-hasrisen less than the U.S. ConsumerPrice Index. As well, the institutionalprice of JIBS has been maintainedat or near the individualprice. TABLE 1 JIBS Output Per Year Articlesa 1970 1971 1972 1973 1974 1975 1976 1977 1978 1979 1980 1981 1982 1983 1984 1985 1986 1987 1988 1989 1990 1991 1992 1993 1994
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186 152 176 200 233 200 211 228 389 332 392 474 446 533 657 534 648 495 552 615 719 768 825 840 434d
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alnstitutional history articles, introductions to special issues, and "Professional Life"articles are excluded. bTotalpages includes articles, notes, comments, replies, book reviews, dissertation abstracts, and indices. cThese figures are for articles only and exclude notes, comments and replies. dTotalpages and average number of pages per article are for the first two issues of 1994 only.
With the exception of 1981, averagearticle length until 1985 was less thanfifteen pages. In 1985, page length increasedsubstantiallyand, in 1990, exceeded twenty for the first time. The increase in page length can be attributedto two main factors. One, as theLB field has matured,researchmethodologies have become more
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rigorous and, consequently,must be explained in greaterdetail. Two, the theoretical foundations for IB papers must be more comprehensive than in the past because there is a much greaterbody of literature.With the enforcementof the thirty-pagedouble-spacedguideline (each double-spacedtypewrittenpage equals about .7 of a journal page), page length is not expected to increase in the next few years. METHODOLOGY Our objective was to focus on JIBS articles that involved research issues. Thus, the first step in the analysis was to ensure that all the articles examined were research articles. This resulted in the elimination of several articles written by JIBS editors
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