JMSat 50: Trends over Time
Timothy Clark, Mike Wright, Zilia Iskoujina, Philip Garnett
Journal of Management Studies · 2014 · Volume 51 · Issue 1
Abstract
We present an analysis of the articles published in theJournal of Management Studiessince its inception to assess to what extentJMShas: maintained its leading international ranking; maintained its founding mission as a broad based management journal; and remained a broad based management journal compared to other general management journals. In terms of its impact factor and citations despite reaching a low point in 2001, we find thatJMStoday ranks higher than it has ever done throughout its 50-year history. From our content analysis covering the life-cycle ofJMS, we find four areas have been the most frequently represented, although their relative importance varies between decades: Organizational Management/Behaviour, Strategy, Human Resource Management, and General Management, accounting for 67 per cent of articles published over the period.JMShas strengthened its international author distribution through the increase in authors from the EU especially; the period 2000–04 which saw the predominance of UK authors was an anomaly. There are marked differences between type of article and author country of origin. Our comparative analysis of the word networks between the journalsJMS,AMJ,ASQ, andHRMshows that over each decade the papers in the first three normally form a single cluster, indicating that the words used in the papers in the different journals are similar, while papers fromHRMoften form an outlining group. Notably, in the early 2000s papers inJMSform a distinct cluster, with papers fromHRMparalleling the anomaly identified in the content analysis. Overall,JMShas regained its distinctiveness as a broad-based international management journal, not favouring any particular theoretical or empirical approach.
Keywords
business and management, journal impact, work networks
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