As we get ready for the USASBE and KEEN conferences in the next two weeks, I am sure many of us are thinking about the publishing opportunities we'll encounter when we meet our friends and hear the new ideas at the meetings. Such thoughts naturally swing to considering how to get published, and I can offer some good news as we start 2011. With the help of my daughter Lauren, I spent some time this summer getting the "Core Journals" list on eWeb updated. The new list is more than double the size of the prior one, with 116 refereed, English-language journals in entrepreneurship and small business. This edition also tracks more of the indexing services than the prior list, and over the Fall I have updated the opinion piece regarding the publishing process and my observations on the state of this industry.
With 116 journals, the prospects for getting published are outstanding. I hope the list helps. You can find it at
http://www.slu.edu/x17970.xml.
Journal editors, if I missed or misstated your journal's specifics, please let me know (
katzja@slu.edu) and I will correct the oversights. Let me also point up that there could be some value in publishing an article based on the list and commentary in a journal venue, so that the information could be more powerfully referred to in tenure packets. Kim Boal and I unexpectedly disappointed a lot of professors since 2002 when we did a note identifying the key entrepreneurship journals for Marketingtechie.com (see
http://marketingtechie.com/linkFrame.asp?link=http://www.marketingtechie.com/articles/mtart20020307.pdf). Dozens of faculty wanted to use the ideas in their packets, but couldn't because the source was a note on a moderated list, and not an article in a refereed journal. I don't think the biases of our fellow academicians have changed all that much.
And please also look at one other remarkable resource for journal listings, Anne-Wil Harzing's website at
Harzing.com. Of particular interest are her "Journal Quality Lists" (
http://www.harzing.com/jql.htm) which summarize the results of most of the ranking efforts across a very broad range of disciplines, including Entrepreneurship/Small Business. She has also created and gives away for free the wonderful program "Publish or Perish" (PoP at
http://www.harzing.com/pop.htm), which lets you evaluate the impact of individual authors or whole journals, using state of the art metrics and data from Google Scholar. Supplementing this she offers insights on the strengths and weaknesses of different data sources, to answer questions about ISI vs. PoP stats. The next edition of my Core Journals List will use journal impact scores from PoP to add to our understanding of the journals in which we publish.
Wishing you all a Happy and productive new year,
Jerry
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Jerome A. Katz
Coleman Foundation Professor in Entrepreneurship
John Cook School of Business, Saint Louis University
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