Journal Quality List

Presents a collation of 11 journal rankings in the broad area of Economics, Finance, Accounting, Management, and Marketing

Anne-Wil Harzing - Sat 6 Feb 2016 16:10 (updated Sat 1 Aug 2026 14:15)

• Publish or Perish - a citation analysis software program, designed to help individual academics to present their case for research impact to its best advantage.
• Journal Quality List - Ranking of academic journals in the field of business and management.
• Interview on Publish or Perish and Journal Quality List, YouTube video.

Blogposts on research and publishing

• Are referencing errors undermining our scholarship and credibility?
• Do you really want to publish your literature review? Advice for PhD students
• Friends and co-authors
• Google Scholar Citation Profiles: the good, the bad, and the better
• How to ensure your paper achieves the impact it deserves?
• How to write successful funding applications?
• Hello from the other side: Reflections on a decade at the editor’s desk
• How many references is enough?
• How to avoid a desk-reject in seven steps [1/8] [8-part series]
• How to keep up-to-date with the literature, but avoid information overload?
• How to write for US journals with non-US data
• Middlesex University 2021 virtual writing boot-camp
• Middlesex University Summer 2019 writing boot-camp
• Own your place in the world by writing a book
• Publishing in Management Education Journals
• Resources on doing a literature review
• Strange journal invitations popping up in my inbox every day
• Strategies for Publishing Pedagogical Research
• The art of academic writing
• The four ailments of academic writing and how to cure them
• The four P's of publishing
• The four C's of getting cited
• The wonderful world of book publishing
• Useful resources when preparing for journal submission
• Want to publish a literature review? Think of it as an empirical paper
• What is that conference networking thing all about?
• Why does my paper get a desk-reject time and again?
• Writing a literature review paper: whether, what, and when?

YouTube videos on publishing

• Harzing, A.W. (2021) Publishing 1: journals as communities.
• Harzing, A.W. (2021) Publishing 2: improving your title.
• Harzing, A.W. (2021) Publishing 3: polishing your abstract.
• Harzing, A.W. (2021) Publishing 4: crafting the introduction.
• Harzing, A.W. (2021) Publishing 5: concluding on a high note.
• Harzing, A.W. (2021) Publishing 6: maximising your chances.
• Harzing, A.W. (2021) Do I need to publish in top journals only?.
• Harzing, A.W. (2020) How to pick your target journal?.
• Harzing, A.W. (2020) Research strategies & trade-offs.
• Harzing, A.W. (2020) Doing a literature review.

YouTube videos on building your research profile

• Harzing, A.W. (2022) Research Profile 1: Why is it so important?.
• Harzing, A.W. (2022) Research Profile 2: What is impact and why care?.
• Harzing, A.W. (2022) Research Profile 3: All about data sources & metrics.
• Harzing, A.W. (2022) Research Profile 4: Citation analysis in the PoP software.
• Harzing, A.W. (2022) Research Profile 5: The 4Cs of getting cited.
• Harzing, A.W. (2022) Research Profile 6: The why and how of Social Media.
• Harzing, A.W. (2022) Research Profile 7: Follow the 7 steps for impact.
• Harzing, A.W. (2022) Research Profile 8: Tips for time poor academics.

Research papers/presentations on international research

The following of my research papers and presentations might be of interest:

• Do we need to distance ourselves from the distance concept? Why home and host country context might matter more than (cultural) distance
• Cross-cultural management and language studies within international business research: Past and present paradigms and suggestions for future research
• Challenges in international survey research: A review with illustrations and suggested solutions for best practice
• Response style differences in cross-national research: dispositional and situational determinants
• Rating versus ranking: what is the best way to reduce response and language bias in cross-national research?
• Response styles in cross-national survey research: A 26-country study
• September 11, 2001: Two quasi-experiments on the influence of threats on cultural values and cosmopolitanism
• The role of culture in entry mode studies: From neglect to myopia?
• Are our referencing errors undermining our scholarship and credibility? The case of expatriate failure rates
• Cross-national industrial mail surveys: Why do response rates differ between countries?
• Response rates in international mail surveys: Results of a 22-country study
• The use of English questionnaires in cross-national research

Papers and presentations on data sources and metrics

• Working with ISI data: Beware of Categorisation Problems - discusses a categorisation problem in the Web of Knowledge. ISI appears to regularly misclassify journal articles containing orginal research into the "review" or "proceedings paper" category.
• Are our referencing errors undermining our scholarship and credibility? The case of expatriate failure rates - Suggests twelve guidelines for good academic referencing.
• Running the REF on a rainy Sunday afternoon: Do metrics match peer review?
• Why metrics can (and should?) be applied in the Social Sciences
• Citation metrics across disciplines: Google Scholar, Scopus and the the Web of Science
• Publish or Perish: Realising Google Scholar's potential to democratise citation analysis
• Benchmarking research performance

Compiled and edited by Prof. Anne-Wil Harzing
72nd edition, 27 March 2026
See also Frequently Asked Questions about the JQL.

Introduction

The Journal Quality List is a collation of journal rankings from a variety of sources. It is published primarily to assist academics to target papers at journals of an appropriate standard. It is not intended to be used for staff evaluation purposes.

The list was originally collated while the editor was associated with the Bradford University School of Management (1997-2001). Since then, the list has been updated and extended periodically to keep it current. The Journal Quality List comprises academic journals in the disciplinary area of Business & Economics.

Whilst every effort has been made to ensure the accuracy of the Journal Quality List, the editor will not be held responsible for omissions or errors. The current version of the JQL contains 11 different rankings of more than 840 journals.

Please note: crowd-sourcing your input

After 25 years of regular updates, continued maintenance the JQL has become a bit of a burden; I have no support - financial or human - for this. So if you spot any inaccuracies or omissions, please contact me by email. That way we can keep this resource accurate and accessible to all. If you have information about updated lists, please also let me know, so I can include them in the next update.

Rankings of a variety of countries included

Where available, the rankings for each journal from the following sources are included:

• ABDC 2025: Australian Business Deans Council journal ranking, March 2026
• FNEGE 2025: Foundation National pour l’Enseignement de la Gestion des Entreprises journal ranking, June 2025
• VHB 2024: integrated version of the 18 area rankings from the German Academic Association for Business Research, Autumn 2023, replacing the 2015 JOURQUAL ranking
• Scopus CiteSc 2024: Scopus CiteScore, May 2024
• EJL 2024: Erasmus Research Institute of Management Journals Listing 2024-2028
• AJG 2024: British Association of Business Schools Ranking, formerly called the ABS ranking, October 2024
• META 2023: An integrative ranking by a group of German scholars
• HCRES 2021: Haut conseil de l’évaluation de la recherche et de l’enseignement supérieur ranking, July 2021. Note: This ranking appears to have been abandoned. Unless a new ranking comes out in 2025, it will be removed from the JQL.
• DEN 2021: Danish Ministry ranking, mid-2021
• CNRS 2020: Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique ranking, June 2020. Note: This ranking appears to have been abandoned. Unless a new ranking comes out in 2025, it will be removed from the JQL.
• FT 2016: Financial Times 50 Ranking 2016

Download information

The Journal Quality List is available for downloading by using the link below. There are three versions of the JQL: by journal title, by subject area, and by ISSN.

• Journal Quality List by title (72nd edition, 27 March 2026)
• Journal Quality List by subject area (72nd edition, 27 March 2026)
• Journal Quality List by ISSN (72nd edition, 27 March 2026)

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