Financial Times Top 45 Journals Used in Business School Research Rank
Below is the list of journals used by the Financial Times (FT) in compiling the Business School research rank. "This research rank is calculated according to the number of faculty publications published in 45 academic and practitioner journals. Points are awarded to the business school at which the author is currently employed. The total is then weighted for faculty size."
| Publication Title | Subject Area | Publisher | Info for Authors | |
| 1 | Academy of Management Journal | Management | Academy of Management | Info |
| 2 | Academy of Management Perspectives | Management | Academy of Management | Info |
| 3 | Academy of Management Review | Management | Academy of Management | Info |
| 4 | Accounting, Organizations and Society | Accounting | Elsevier | Info |
| 5 | Accounting Review | Accounting | American Accounting Association | Info |
| 6 | Administrative Science Quarterly | Management | Cornell University | Info |
| 7 | American Economic Review | Economics | American Economic Association | Info |
| 8 | California Management Review | Management | University of California, Berkeley | Info |
| 9 | Contemporary Accounting Research | Accounting | Wiley / Canadian Academic Accounting Association | Info |
| 10 | Econometrica | Economics | Wiley / Econometric Society | Info |
| 11 | Entrepreneurship Theory and Practice | Entrepreneurship | Wiley / United States Association for Small Business and Entrepreneurship | Info |
| 12 | Harvard Business Review | Management | Harvard Business School Publishing | Info |
| 13 | Human Resource Management | Human Resources | Wiley | Info |
| 14 | Information Systems Research | Operations & Information Systems | INFORMS (Institute for Operations Research and the Management Sciences) | Info |
| 15 | Journal of Accounting and Economics | Accounting | Elsevier | Info |
| 16 | Journal of Accounting Research | Accounting | Wiley / University of Chicago | Info |
| 17 | Journal of Applied Psychology | Oraganizational Behaviour | American Psychological Association | Info |
| 18 | Journal of Business Ethics | Ethics | Springer | Info |
| 19 | Journal of Business Venturing | Entrepreneurship | Elsevier | Info |
| 20 | Journal of Consumer Psychology | Marketing | Elsevier | Info |
| 21 | Journal of Consumer Research | Marketing | University of Chicago Press | Info |
| 22 | Journal of Finance | Finance | Wiley / American Finance Association | Info |
| 23 | Journal of Financial and Quantitative Analysis | Finance | Cambridge University Press | Info |
| 24 | Journal of Financial Economics | Finance | Elsevier | Info |
| 25 | Journal of International Business Studies | International Business | Palgrave Macmillan / Academy of International Business | Info |
| 26 | Journal of Management Studies | Management | Wiley | Info |
| 27 | Journal of Marketing | Marketing | American Marketing Association | Info |
| 28 | Journal of Marketing Research | Marketing | American Marketing Association | Info |
| 29 | Journal of Operations Management | Operations & Information Systems | Elsevier | Info |
| 30 | Journal of Political Economy | Economics | University of Chicago Press | Info |
| 31 | Journal of the American Statistical Association | Statistics | American Statistical Association | Info |
| 32 | Management Science | Operations & Information Systems | INFORMS (Institute for Operations Research and the Management Sciences) | Info |
| 33 | Marketing Science | Marketing | INFORMS (Institute for Operations Research and the Management Sciences) | Info |
| 34 | MIS Quarterly | Operations & Information Systems | Managment Information Systems Research Centre, University of Minnesota | Info |
| 35 | MIT Sloan Management Review | Management | MIT Press (Massachusetts Institute of Technology) | Info |
| 36 | Operations Research | Operations & Information Systems | INFORMS (Institute for Operations Research and the Management Sciences) | Info |
| 37 | Organization Science | Organizational Behaviour | INFORMS (Institute for Operations Research and the Management Sciences) | Info |
| 38 | Organization Studies | Organizational Behaviour | Sage | Info |
| 39 | Organizational Behavior and Human Decision Processes | Organizational Behaviour | Elsevier | Info |
| 40 | Production and Operations Management | Operations & Information Systems | Wiley / POMS (Production and Operations Management Society) | Info |
| 41 | Quarterly Journal of Economics | Economics | MIT Press (Massachusetts Institute of Technology) | Info |
| 42 | RAND Journal of Economics | Economics | Wiley / RAND Corporation | Info |
| 43 | Review of Accounting Studies | Accounting | Springer | Info |
| 44 | Review of Financial Studies | Finance | Oxford University Press | Info |
| 45 | Strategic Management Journal | Management | Wiley | Info |
Notes:
• The list of titles is based upon survey feedback from business schools participating in the EMBA and MBA rankings.
• The FT top 40 list expanded to the FT top 45 list in 2010.
Last Reviewed: May 3, 2012

