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”
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Why is it important?
What are “top journals”?
Case Study of Journal of Management Studies
Responding to reviewers’ feedback
Useful hints
Q&A
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Career progression
Teaching  research balance
Developing generic skills
Getting integrated into a community
High “visibility” at home and abroad
Editorial recognition
Why is it important?
JOURNAL OF
MANAGEMENT
STUDIES
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.
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JMS Editorial Team 2015
General Editors
Garry Bruton
Dries Faems
Bill Harley
Associate Editors
Penny Dick
Igor Filatotchev
Maddy Janssens
Gerardo Patriotta
Don Siegel
Editorial Office
Margaret Turner
Joy Bettles
Ruth Booth
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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.
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JMS Ethical Code
• 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.
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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
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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.
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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.
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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
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Rankings and Lists
• 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.
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ISI Management Rankings 2013
Rank
Journal
5-Year Impact
Impact Factor
Factor
Immediacy
Index
Eigenfactor
Score
Article Influence
Score
Full Journal Title
Total Cites
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
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ISI Business Rankings 2013
Rank
Full Journal Title
1
Academy of Management Review
2
Journal of Management
3
Academy of Management Journal
4
Family Business Review
5
Journal of Marketing
6
Total Cites
Journal Impact 5-Year Impact
Factor
Factor
Immediacy
Index
Eigenfactor
Score
Article
Influence
Score
17,707
7.817
9.698
1.414
0.01441
5.317
9,110
6.862
8.027
0.657
0.01798
4.134
19,426
4.974
8.443
0.541
0.02533
5.239
1,260
4.243
3.592
0.824
0.00212
1.229
13,636
3.819
6.682
0.375
0.01472
3.296
Journal of International Business Studies
6,676
3.594
5.534
0.87
0.01136
1.991
7
Journal 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
JOURNAL OF MANAGEMENT STUDIES
Publication Criteria
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.
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
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
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Submissions
No of papers submitted to JMS
1st Jan 2003 - 1st Apr 2015
1000
900
800
No of papers
700
600
500
400
300
200
100
0
2003
2004
2005
2006
2007
2008
2009
Year
2010
2011
2012
2013
2014
2015
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Submissions by Region over Time
400
350
300
Africa
250
Asia
Australasia
200
Europe
North America
150
South America
100
50
0
2003 2004 2005 2006 2007 2008 2009 2010 2011 2012 2013 2014
JOURNAL OF MANAGEMENT STUDIES
Submissions by Geographic Area 2014
2% 1%
24%
26%
7%
40%
Africa
Asia
Australasia
Europe
North America
South America
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Facts and Figures
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.
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Proportion of Decisions 2014
3%
0%
6%
29%
62%
Rejected
Rejected later
Accepted
Other
In Progress
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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)
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Special Issues
Recent & Forthcoming
• 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)
JOURNAL OF MANAGEMENT STUDIES
Review Articles
Recent & 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)
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Point-CounterPoint
Recent & Forthcoming
• POINT: Celebrating Organization Theory by Michael
Lounsbury & Christine Beckman
• COUNTERPOINT: Celebrating organization theory: The afterparty 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 DiscourseMateriality Relationship by Linda Putnam (forthcoming)
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Conferences and Workshops
JMS 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.
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Wiley Online Library
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, PointCounterpoint 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…
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Journals and Research Communities
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.
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The Society for the Advancement
of Management Studies
• 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.
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The Grigor McClelland Doctoral
Dissertation Award
This 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, USA
2013: Henrika Franck, Hanken School of Economics, Finland
2012: Tyler Wry, University of Pennsylvania, USA
2011: Jean-Philippe Vergne, Western University, Canada
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Developing the Management
Studies Community Fund
Applications 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
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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.
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