What are the main requirements of top management journals towards successful publications? Igor Filatotchev Cass Business School, City University London

What are the main requirements of top management journals towards successful publications?

Igor Filatotchev

Cass Business School, City University London

HSE Moscow 2015

“Road Map”

• Why is it important?• What are “top journals”?• Case Study of Journal of Management Studies• Responding to reviewers’ feedback• Useful hints• Q&A

Why is it important?

• Career progression• Teaching research balance• Developing generic skills• Getting integrated into a community• High “visibility” at home and abroad• Editorial recognition

Case Study

JOURNAL OF MANAGEMENT

STUDIES

Who We Are

• Consistently highly ranked the Journal of Management Studies (JMS) is a globally respected, multidisciplinary journal with a long established history of excellence in management research.

• The Journal has three General Editors, four Associate Editors and four Consulting Editors.

• The Editors are a global team with bases in Australasia, Europe and North America.

• It has an Editorial Board of over 200 academics covering all areas of expertise, particularly in International Business, Strategy, Entrepreneurship, OT, CMS, and HRM.

JOURNAL OF MANAGEMENT STUDIES

General Editors

Associate Editors

Editorial Office

Garry BrutonDries FaemsBill Harley

Penny DickIgor FilatotchevMaddy JanssensGerardo PatriottaDon Siegel

Margaret TurnerJoy BettlesRuth Booth

JMS Editorial Team 2015


What Makes Us Different

• JMS has a dedicated Editorial Office, located in Durham University, UK, and managed by Margaret Turner.

• JMS does not use Manuscript Central: all correspondence is handled personally by the members of the Editorial Office, so whether it is via telephone or email your contact will always be with a person.

• JMS has an inclusive ethos and is open to a wide range of methodological approaches and philosophical underpinnings.

• JMS Editors cannot publish in JMS, aside from Editorials and occasional Introductions to commissioned content.

• JMS Editors consult another member of the editorial team in the latter stages of the revision process to ensure consistency in the decision making process.


• As part of our commitment to quality, we have recently revised our submission guidelines extensively to improve their clarity. We have also introduced a submission checklist for authors and will now use iThenticate to screen papers where appropriate.

• JMS Editors have a fixed term and may not publish in the journal during that term, with the exception of editorials and introductions to commissioned content.

• JMS Editors will ensure that submissions receive an objective and unbiased initial evaluation and, should they be sent for review, that they will be reviewed by appropriate and suitably qualified reviewers and that the process is fair, unbiased and timely.

• JMS has an appeals process and will respond promptly to any complaints.

• JMS Editors will investigate fully any cases of alleged misconduct at the journal.

JMS Ethical Code



Journal Publishing in Academia

Arguably the currency of academia is reputation and journal publishing is a prime example of this. There are no charges for submission or publication and no royalties are received by authors. The benefit to both journal and academic is reputation. Tenure decisions, career progression and funding are often very much dependent on publication record.

Reviewing is a purely voluntary activity, despite the time and effort it takes. It is generally considered to be beneficial for various reasons:

• Improves your own scholarly skills• Allows you to see what’s being currently researched in your area of

interest• Provides the opportunity to connect with others in the field• May provide ideas and direction for your own research• Editorial Board membership is viewed favourably• Sense of pride in seeing work published that you have helped authors to

complete• Giving back to the community

Review Process

JMS is committed to providing timely and constructive feedback to authors to ensure an effective and efficient review process.

• JMS operates a double-blind peer review process.

• Any paper that is to go out for review may be screened for overlap with previous papers using the iThenticate software.

• Papers that go out for review typically receive three reviews drawn from our Editorial Board as well as ad hoc reviewers, and we aim to provide a decision within approximately three months.

• Typically, manuscripts will be revised two to four times before acceptance, however, we endeavour to make a decision regarding eventual publication after the second revision.

• Time from acceptance to appearing in print is approximately one year.



Expectations of Reviewers

• Reviewers should only agree to review manuscripts for which they have the subject expertise and if they can do so within the proposed or a mutually agreed timeframe.

• Reviewers should respect the confidentiality of the peer review process and not reveal any details of a manuscript or its review, during or after the peer review process, beyond those that are released by the journal.

• Reviewers should endeavour to be objective and constructive in their review, refraining from hostile, inflammatory, libellous or derogatory personal comments.

• Reviewers should not use information obtained during the peer review process for their own or any other person’s or organization’s advantage.

• Reviewers should not involve anyone else in the review of a manuscript, including junior researchers they are mentoring, without first obtaining permission from the journal.

COMMON REASONS FOR REJECTION

•Lack of a clear, significant and interesting contribution

•Lack of methodological rigour•Lack of a clear and appropriate theoretical framework

•Lack of clear implications for management theory and practice

•Lack of relevance


• The Impact Factor for 2013 is 3.277

• The 5-year Impact Factor is 5.196

• ISI Ranking in 2013• 8/110 in Business• 14/172 in Management

• In 2010, JMS was selected for inclusion in the FT Top 45 Journals list

• The Association of Business Schools consistently lists JMS as a 4 star journal in the general management category.

Rankings and Lists


Rank Full Journal Title Total CitesJournal

Impact Factor5-Year Impact

FactorImmediacy

IndexEigenfactor

ScoreArticle Influence

Score

1 Academy of Management Review 17,707 7.817 9.698 1.414 0.01441 5.317

2 Academy of Management Annals 778 7.333 10.154 0.6 0.00713 6.560

3 Journal of Management 9,110 6.862 8.027 0.657 0.01798 4.134

4 MIS Quarterly 8,705 5.405 8.157 1.103 0.01039 2.785

5 Academy of Management Journal 19,426 4.974 8.443 0.541 0.02533 5.239

6 Personnel Psychology 4,560 4.540 5.845 0.464 0.00746 3.459

7 Journal of Operations Management 5,596 4.478 7.718 0.525 0.00697 2.062

8 Journal of Applied Psychology 22,440 4.367 6.952 0.471 0.02853 3.538

9 Organization Science 10,499 3.807 5.512 0.319 0.02303 3.595

10 Journal of Information Technology 1,282 3.789 4.917 0.476 0.00376 1.872

11 Journal of Supply Chain Management 1,072 3.717 4.946 0.621 0.002 1.078

12 Journal of International Business Studies 6,676 3.594 5.534 0.87 0.01136 1.991

13 Organizational Research Methods 2,727 3.525 5.713 0.308 0.00825 2.954

14 Journal of Management Studies 5,473 3.277 5.196 0.824 0.01174 2.294

ISI Management Rankings 2013


Rank Full Journal Title Total CitesJournal Impact

Factor5-Year Impact

FactorImmediacy

IndexEigenfactor

Score

Article Influence

Score

1 Academy of Management Review 17,707 7.817 9.698 1.414 0.01441 5.317

2 Journal of Management 9,110 6.862 8.027 0.657 0.01798 4.134

3 Academy of Management Journal 19,426 4.974 8.443 0.541 0.02533 5.239

4 Family Business Review 1,260 4.243 3.592 0.824 0.00212 1.229

5 Journal of Marketing 13,636 3.819 6.682 0.375 0.01472 3.296

6 Journal of International Business Studies 6,676 3.594 5.534 0.87 0.01136 1.991

7Journal of the Academy Of Marketing Science

4,705 3.410 4.518 0.225 0.00562 1.486

8 Journal of Management Studies 5,473 3.277 5.196 0.824 0.01174 2.294

ISI Business Rankings 2013


WHAT WE LOOK FOR• Unusual, surprising, quirky, or challenging papers are welcome• A strong theoretical orientation• No preference is given to a particular topic, method or level of analysis

Publication Criteria

COMMON REASONS FOR REJECTION•Lack of a clear, significant and interesting contribution•Lack of methodological rigour•Lack of a clear and appropriate theoretical framework•Lack of clear implications for management theory and practice

JMS publishes innovative empirical and conceptual articles which advance knowledge of management and organisation, in such fields as organization theory, organizational behaviour, HRM, strategy, international business, entrepreneurship, innovation and CMS.


Submissions


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Submissions by Region over Time


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Submissions by Geographic Area 2014


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TURNAROUND

• An average of 4 days for an initial decision.

• An average of 77 days for a decision after review.

• This leads to an overall average for a decision of 31 days.

REJECTION FIGURES

• Desk rejection rate currently stands at around 62%

• Rejection rate in later rounds (i.e. after review) is around 29%

ACCEPTANCE FIGURES

• Acceptance rate currently stands at around 4%

• On average we accept between 20 and 40 papers a year among papers submitted to regular issues.

Facts and Figures



Proportion of Decisions 2014

62%

29%

3%6%

RejectedRejected laterAcceptedOtherIn Progress


Types of JMS Articles

REGULAR ARTICLES• The bulk of the journal’s content, submitted on an ad hoc basis and all

processes are managed by the Editorial Office.

POINT-COUNTERPOINTS• Specific to JMS, this is an article putting forward a position or argument

paired with one or more other articles proposing alternative arguments or perspectives.

• Proposals considered on an ad hoc basis, usually a couple per year.

REVIEW ARTICLES• An overview of a particular area of literature with implications for future

research.

EDITORIALS• Written by the Editors, usually in response certain issues (i.e. concern

over ethical issues)

• Strategic Leaders and Leadership in Entrepreneurial Contexts

• Edited by Zeki Simsek, Justin Jansen, Alessandro Minichilli, Alejandro Escriba Esteve and Marta ‐Geletkanycz (June, 2015)

• The MNE as a Challenge to Institutional Theory: Key Concepts, Recent Developments and Empirical Evidence

• Edited by Ayse Saka Helmhout, Royston ‐Greenwood and Richard Deeg (forthcoming)

Special IssuesRecent & Forthcoming


• Moving Forward: Developing Theoretical Contributions in Management by Joep Cornelissen and Rodolphe Durand (September, 2014)

• Signalling Theory and Equilibrium in Strategic Management Research: An Assessment and a Research Agenda by Donald D. Bergh, Brian L. Connelly, David J. Ketchen, Jr. and Lu M. Shannon (December, 2014)

Review ArticlesRecent & Forthcoming


• POINT: Celebrating Organization Theory by Michael Lounsbury & Christine Beckman

• COUNTERPOINT: Celebrating organization theory: The after-party by Gerald Davis (March, 2015)

• POINT: Discourse in a Material World by Cynthia Hardy and Robyn Thomas

• COUNTERPOINTS: Exploring Material-Discursive Practices: Comments on Hardy and Thomas’ Discourse in a Material World by Wanda Orlikowski and Susan Scott

• Unpacking the Dialectic: Alternative Views on the Discourse-Materiality Relationship by Linda Putnam (forthcoming)

Point-CounterPoint Recent & Forthcoming


Conferences and WorkshopsJMS holds a conference every two years.

• The last conference was March 2014 in Cambridge, UK, on Managing Complexity Within and Across Organizational Boundaries.

• The next JMS conference will be in Warwick, UK, in 2016.

JMS also runs workshops in conjunction with other organizations.

• The last workshop was April 2013 in Denver, Colorado in conjunction with the Sustainability, Ethics, & Entrepreneurship (SEE) Conference.

• The next will be May 2015 in Vallendar, Germany in conjunction with WHU – Otto Beisheim School of Management.

• Followed by June 2015 in Beijing, China in conjunction with Renmin University.

JMS also regularly holds events at EGOS, the AoM, BAM and other major international conferences.


http://www.journalofmanagementstudies.com

The Journal website has recently been revised and contains everything you’d expect:

• Manuscript preparation guidelines

• Guidelines for different types of papers e.g. Review papers, Point-Counterpoint papers, Special Issues, etc.

• Accepted Articles – papers that have been through the peer review process and been accepted, but have not yet been through the copyediting process.

• Early View papers – papers that have been through the copyediting process.

• And the usual information on Editors, Editorial Board members, Permissions, etc…

Wiley Online Library


http://www.journalofmanagementstudies.com/

Strategic Management Society

• Strategic Management Journal• Strategic Entrepreneurship Journal• Global Strategy Journal

AIB (Academy of International Business)

• Journal of International Business Studies.

EIBA (European International Business Academy)

• International Business Research.

EGOS

• Organization Studies.

Journals and Research Communities


• SAMS is a charity founded in 1963 by Professor Grigor McClelland to provide a governance structure for the Journal of Management Studies.

• SAMS Council is currently made up of 13 senior professors based in the UK and internationally; the current Chair is Professor Richard Thorpe, University of Leeds.

• SAMS is administered by Margaret Turner, based in Durham University Business School, UK.

• SAMS has a broad remit to advance education in the field of management studies and has a number of initiatives in support of this.

The Society for the Advancement of Management Studies


The Grigor McClelland Doctoral Dissertation AwardThis is an annual award for the best Doctoral Dissertation as selected by a panel of SAMS council members and other senior academics.

No preference is given to subject or methodology so long as it falls within management studies.

The finalists typically present their dissertations at the EGOS conference where the award will be made.

The winner will receive a prize of £5,000.

Previous winners are:2014: Ryan Raffaelli, Harvard Business School, USA2013: Henrika Franck, Hanken School of Economics, Finland2012: Tyler Wry, University of Pennsylvania, USA2011: Jean-Philippe Vergne, Western University, Canada


Developing the Management Studies Community FundApplications are invited twice yearly (January and July) for funding to support events or activities that benefit the management studies community in general.

Awards are typically a maximum of £10,000.

Previous recipients:Durham University: “Reclaiming Impact”

Lancaster University: NARTI Annual Doctoral Conference

Newcastle University: Researching Professionals, Their Work and Organisations: Paper Development Masterclass for Early Career Academics and Doctoral Students.

Babson College: 2014 Babson College Entrepreneurship Research Conference Doctoral Consortium Program


The British Academy and the Society for the Advancement of Management Studies (SAMS) have announced a new partnership to deliver additional funding through the Academy’s Small Research Grants scheme for the support of scholars in Management and Business Studies.

The five year partnership will provide £100,000 every year to match funding delivered by the Academy through the existing Small Research Grants scheme. The new funding will enable the expansion of the support for research in these fields.

The Academy has today announced the first fourteen research awards under this partnership, awarded to scholars based in eleven different institutions across the UK, including Essex, Bath, Greenwich, Bournemouth and Nottingham Trent University.


Group Discussion

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Group Discussion

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What are the main requirements of top management journals towards successful publications? Igor Filatotchev Cass Business School, City University London