Scopus is Elsevier's abstract and citation database launched in 2004. Scopus covers nearly 36,377 titles from approximately 11,678 publishers, of which 34,346 are peer-reviewed journals in top-level subject fields: life sciences, social sciences, physical sciences and health sciences. It covers three types of sources: book series, journals, and trade journals. All journals covered in the Scopus database are reviewed for sufficiently high quality each year according to four types of numerical quality measure for each title; those are h-Index, CiteScore, SJR and SNIP. Searches in Scopus also incorporate searches of patent database Lexis-Nexis, albeit with a limited functionality.
Journal ranking is widely used in academic circles in the evaluation of an academic journal's impact and quality. Journal rankings are intended to reflect the place of a journal within its field, the relative difficulty of being published in that journal, and the prestige associated with it. They have been introduced as official research evaluation tools in several countries.
Plant and Soil is a monthly peer-reviewed scientific journal covering research on the relationships between plants and soil, such as relationships and interactions of plants with minerals, water and microbes, the anatomy and morphology of roots, soil biology and ecology, etc. It is published by Springer Science+Business Media on behalf of the Royal Netherlands Society of Agricultural Science.
The Journal of Environmental Engineering is a monthly engineering journal published by the American Society of Civil Engineers.
Entrepreneurship is the creation or extraction of economic value. With this definition, entrepreneurship is viewed as change, generally entailing risk beyond what is normally encountered in starting a business, which may include other values than simply economic ones.
The SCImago Journal Rank (SJR) indicator is a measure of the prestige of scholarly journals that accounts for both the number of citations received by a journal and the prestige of the journals where the citations come from.
Inderscience Publishers is a global academic publisher based in Geneva, Switzerland. It publishes approximately 428 peer-reviewed journals in the fields of science, engineering and technology; management, public and business administration; environment, ecological economics and sustainable development; computing, ICT and internet/web services. All papers submitted to Inderscience journals are double-blind refereed. Conference papers can also be submitted for publication if the paper has been completely re-written and the author has cleared any existing copyrights.
The Journal of Marketing Education is a triannual peer-reviewed academic journal that publishes papers on marketing education. It is a member of the Committee on Publication Ethics (COPE) and committed to ethical practices in publishing. The editor-in-chief is Donald R. Bacon. It was established in 1979 and is currently published by SAGE Publications.
Benchmarking: An International Journal is a bimonthly peer-reviewed academic journal that publishes covers the field of quality management. The editor-in-chief is Angappa Gunasekaran. The journal was established in 1994 as Benchmarking for Quality Management & Technology and obtained its current name in 1999. It is currently published by Emerald Group Publishing. The journal is abstracted and indexed in Inspec, ProQuest databases, Web of Science, and Scopus.
Combinatorics, Probability and Computing is a peer-reviewed scientific journal in mathematics published by Cambridge University Press. Its editor-in-chief is Béla Bollobás.
The European Academy of Management (EURAM), founded in 2001, is a learned society dedicated to the advancement of the academic discipline of management in the Europe. It is a member of the European Institute for Advanced Studies in Management network. EURAM runs the European Management Review, a quarterly peer-reviewed academic journal published by John Wiley & Sons, annual conferences for business and management scholars, and training programmes for PhD students, Post-Docs, Research Directors, and Business School Executives.
Per Davidsson is an entrepreneurship professor that holds Swedish and Australian citizenship. He is currently a professor of entrepreneurship at Jönköping International Business School and Queensland University of Technology Business School where he served as the Talbot Family Foundation Chair in Entrepreneurship and Founding Director of the Australian Centre for Entrepreneurship Research (ACE) during 2010–2018. He serves on the editorial boards for several journals and has participated in many research programs including the Comprehensive Australian Study of Entrepreneurial Emergence. On March 22, 2023 he was named the 2023 recipient of the Global Award for Entrepreneurship Research.
Academy of Strategic Management Journal is a bi-monthly peer-reviewed academic journal that covers the fields of management and organization studies, business, trade and marketing. Its editors-in-chief are Shawn Carraher, Sang-Bing Tsai. It was established in 2002 and is published by Allied Business Academies, which is affiliated with the predatory OMICS Publishing Group.
Visitor Studies is a peer-reviewed academic journal covering visitor research, including reflections on the area, research methodologies, and theoretical aspects. The journal covers subjects relating to museums and learning in the context of historic sites, nature centers, parks, visitor centers, and zoos. It is interdisciplinary in nature, including humanities, business management, and social sciences. The journal was established in 1998 and is published by Taylor & Francis (Routledge). The editors are Karen Knutson and Kevin Crowley, both of the University of Pittsburgh Center for Learning in Out-of-School Environments.
Computational Optimization and Applications is a peer-reviewed academic journal published by Springer Science+Business Media. The journal focuses on the analysis and development of computational algorithms and modeling technology for optimization. It also covers linear programming, computational complexity theory, automatic differentiation, approximations and error analysis, parametric programming, sensitivity analysis, and management science.
Electronic Commerce Research is a peer-reviewed academic journal published by Springer Science+Business Media. The journal focuses on disseminating the latest findings in all facets of electronic commerce. A sampling of topics published in the journal as they relate to the Internet and electronic commerce include intelligent agents technologies and their impact; economics of electronic commerce; virtual electronic commerce systems; service creation and provisioning; supply chain management through the internet; collaborative learning, gaming, and work; and workflow for electronic commerce applications.
The Flexible Services and Manufacturing Journal is a peer-reviewed academic journal published by Springer Science+Business Media. The journal was originally published under the title "International Journal of Flexible Manufacturing Systems" and Kathryn Stecke was the founding Editor-in-Chief. The journal publishes research in the field of services and manufacturing management. All aspects in this field including the interface between engineering and management, the design and analysis of service and manufacturing systems as well as operational planning and decision support systems are covered.
Probability and Mathematical Statistics is a peer-reviewed scientific journal covering mathematical aspects of the probability theory. It was founded in 1980 as the initiative of the Wrocław probability community led by Kazimierz Urbanik and Czesław Ryll-Nardzewski, and statistics community represented by Witold Klonecki. They served as editors of the journal during the first twenty-five years of its existence, with Kazimierz Urbanik shouldering the role of the editor-in-chief. Beginning with 2007, Probability and Mathematical Statistics became an affiliated journal of the Institute of Mathematical Statistics. PMS is indexed by Scopus, MathSciNet, Index Copernicus and Journal Citation Reports (IF=0.617). PMS is an open-access journal.
Research Policy is a peer-reviewed academic journal published by Elsevier on behalf of the Science Policy Research Unit (SPRU). It was established by British economist Christopher Freeman in 1971 and is regarded as the leading journal in the field of innovation studies. It is listed as one of the 50 journals used by the Financial Times to compile its business-school research ranks.
Saras D. Sarasvathy is an American entrepreneurship professor and recipient of the 2022 Global Award for Entrepreneurship Research. She is currently the Paul M. Hammaker Professor in Business Administration at the University of Virginia Darden School of Business and the Jamuna Raghavan Chair Professor in Entrepreneurship, Indian Institute of Management, Bangalore. She serves on the editorial boards or as associate editor of several academic journals as well as serving as an outside director to the public company Lending Tree. She is most well known for her conception of Effectuation, a theory of Entrepreneurial action based on the study of Expert Entrepreneurs. Her award-winning journal article - "Causation and Effectuation: Toward a Theoretical Shift from Economic Inevitability to Entrepreneurial Contingency" is one of the most highly cited academic articles about entrepreneurship of all time.
