Recent progress in the development of the Journal of Business Economics
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Recent progress in the development of the Journal of Business Economics Günter Fandel1 Published online: 3 October 2020 © The Author(s) 2020
• Additional Editor-in-Chief
I am pleased to announce that the Journal of Business Economics has moved to having now two Editors-in-Chief: Wolfgang Breuer has been additional Editor-in-Chief of the Journal of Business Economics since July 2020. I warmly welcome him in this new role and look forward to successfully cooperate with him. • Springer nature became a signatory of DORA By signing up DORA (Declaration on Research Assessment) in May 2020, also including now the Journal of Business Economics, Springer Nature likes to demonstrate its clear commitment to researchers in enabling choice and supporting a balanced and fair way of addressing impact and quality and continues to engage with the open and informed debate on the future of scholarly research assessment. Beeing a DORA-compliant offers a wide array of article-level metrics (accesses, citations, altmetrics, impact factor, submission to first decision, downloads, and submission to acceptance) that can be used to assess the quality of published research. Funding institutions may ask the universities and other research institutions which employ the researchers they fund to embrace the principles of DORA. • Editorial status report In 2019 there were 278 manuscripts under review; 189 of them were finally decided. During the peer review process, submitted manuscripts go through one more revision stages leading up to acceptance or rejection. Figure 1 summarizes the activity for the journal office between January 1st and December 31st of each year. The rejection rate for a year is calculated as the number of rejected manuscripts in this year compared to the total number of decisions in this year, which is defined here as the number of rejected manuscripts plus the number of accepted manuscripts. * Günter Fandel guenter.fandel@fernuni‑hagen.de 1
Center for Production Economics and Decision Support, FernUniversität in Hagen, Universitätsstr. 41, 58084 Hagen, Germany
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Fig. 1 Editorial status summary 2015–2019
• Downloads in 2013–2019
Downloads of full-text articles are a very good indicator of the interest of the scientific community on the paper of the journal and their content. This concerns in a positive way to two aspects simultaneously: the relevance of the topic as well as the quality of the articles. As can be seen by Fig. 2, we had already about 60,000 downloads in 2013, in the first year after “Zeitschrift für Betriebswirtschaft” was transformed into the “Journal of Business Economics”. In 2019, the downloads have increased over 161,000. In addition, Table 1 gives an information about which articles, published in the year 2014–2019, have been downloaded most frequently in the year 2019.
1 Best paper award 2019 By decision of the editors of the Journal of Business Economics the Best Paper Award 2019 is given to Julia Müller and Christiane Schwieren for their c
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