The Stature of the Journal of International Business Studies
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Stature
of
the
Journal
of
International
Business
Studies AnupamaPhene*
UNIVERSITYOF TEXAS AT DALLAS
StephenGuisinger** UNIVERSITY OF TEXAS AT DALLAS
This article examines the standing of the Journal of International Business Studies (JIBS) among scholarly journals, and changes in its influence, over a 11 year period (1981 to 1991) using a variety of
citation indices. We suggest that two new measures-a prestige index and a trajectory index-are helpful in assessing a journal's
The
rankingof scholarlyjournalsby
quality is a topic that always stimulates lively discussion, if not controversy, among researchers. Scholars apply subjective criteria in judging journal quality, and it is rare that they arrive at the same or even similar rankings. Disagreement can be especially intense for new journals that lack a sufficiently long "paper trail", despite having distinguished editors or editorial boards. If journal quality were merely a topic of casual conversation among faculty colleagues, careful justification for the
influence and reputation. We estimate these, as well as several standard citation measures, to gauge JIBS' progress in the recent past. Wefind that JIBS does well on all measures, but room for improvement remains. This article discusses options available to the editorial board to raise JIBS' prestige. ranking criteria and empirical evidence would hardly be called for. However, over the past few years, the issue of journal quality has moved from the object of spirited friendly discussion to a critical factor in promotion, tenure and merit-pay-increase decisions. In many universities, it is no longer sufficient for faculty to publish articles in refereed journals; a certain number must appear in "top-tier" journals lest faculty face professional stagnation. This article asks the question:Is JIBS a top-tier journal? Andrew Inkpen and
*Anupama Phene is a doctoral student in strategy/international business at the University of Texas at Dallas. She is involved in research on the evolution of subsidiaries in multinational enterprises. **Stephen Guisinger is Professor of International Management and directs the distance learning program at the University of Texas at Dallas. He is involved in research on the interaction between strategy and the international environment. JOURNAL OF INTERNATIONALBUSINESS STUDIES,
29, 3
(THIRD QUARTER
1998): 621-632.
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THE STATURE OF JIBS
Paul Beamish had good news for JIBS authors when they reported that "JIBS has attained a position as one of the top business journals,not solely as the top IB journal" (Inkpen & Beamish, 1994). They based this judgement on the fact that JIBSwas the eighteenth most cited business journal according to the Social Science Citation Index in 1993. They also noted thatJIBSrose fromthe ninetysixth to the twenty-fifth most cited economics journal between 1980 and 1990, despite the f
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