JIT success in impact factor rankings
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Editorial
JIT success in impact factor rankings Journal of Information Technology (2007) 22, 1–2. doi:10.1057/palgrave.jit.2000074
ince we re-launched the journal with a re-invigorated editorial policy in December 2003, we have made a point of not writing editorials unless there was a good reason. For this issue, the reason lies in the release of the latest Impact Factor Rankings, which have placed the Journal of Information Technology at 11th out of 71 journals in the field of Management. This puts us above journals such as Harvard Business Review, the Academy of Management Executive, the Journal of Management Studies, and the Journal of Management Information Systems, and just one place behind Management Science. This success is the outcome of a number of factors including our re-invigorated editorial policy, energetic support from our publisher, Palgrave, in increasing awareness of the journal, and the excellent work of our regional editors, guest editors, reviewers, and authors. And, of course, it requires our readers to cite the journal in their own publications. A key plank of the editorial policy has been to provide higher quality, more interesting, more timely, and more useful contents. This includes in addition to research papers, state of the art reviews, teaching cases, perspectives and debates, and special issues.
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We have experienced increasingly high levels of submissions in the last 3 years and enjoyed a bumper crop in 2006. This has given us the feedstock for a review process designed to assist authors of high potential papers to convert them into publishable work. We have expanded our team of Regional Editors to manage this increase and have introduced an initial review by the Editors-in-Chief to provide immediate response to submissions that are inappropriate or unpublishable. We have also published several highly popular special issues on topical subjects. The current issue on Transfer and Diffusion of IT for Organizational Resilience is a case in point. We continue to welcome suggestions from our readers and offers to assist in guest editing a special issue. A further reason for our success has been the support from our publisher since 2004, Palgrave. They have actively marketed the journal which has brought us more readers and authors. This combination has contributed to our increased impact. One reason why we are always keen to publish work that builds on research that we have published is that it offers the opportunity to increase the citation rates for the journal. This benefits authors, new and old, as well as the Journal.
Table 1 Top 20 management journals by Impact 2005
Rank
Abbreviated journal title (linked to journal information)
1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 11 12 13 14 15 16 17 18 19 20
Mis Quart Acad Manage Rev Admin Sci Quart Hum Resource Manage Acad Manage J Organ Sci Strategic Manage J Res Policy Leadership Quart Manage Sci J Inf Technol J Manage Inform Manage-Amster Corp Gov J Ope
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