Dear colleagues,
A little while ago there was a thread about journals that "count" on this listserv. Well aware of the realities many (especially junior) colleagues are facing, I would argue that focusing overly narrowly of the current/local set of performance indicators may be counterproductive both to individual careers and (certainly) to the development of our field of research.
As a case in point I would like to draw your attention to a journal which does not yet "count" in many incentive systems, but which nonetheless matters to our collective, knowledge-building endeavor.
Would you be a little impressed by a journal that in its short history (the last couple of years) has published papers by Shaker Zahra, Joakim Wincent, Johan Wiklund, David Storey, Dean Shepherd, Saras Sarasvathy, Bill McKelvey, Benson Honig, Elisabeth Garnsey, Michael Frese, Tom Elfring, Frederic Delmar, Alex Coad and myself (among many other fine scholars)? These are scholars who average some 15,000 citations on GS for a collective count of over 200,000 cites. Would you appreciate a journal which publishes healthy conceptual and methodological debates pertaining to major research streams like nascent entrepreneurship, firm growth, and those entities many still call "opportunities"? A journal which publishes work on new phenomena like equity crowdfunding and using novel approaches like agent-based simulation? A journal where you find fresh themes like the role of biology, health, psychological disorders and crime in entrepreneurship? And where the contributions tend to be concise as well as timely? I thought so!
The Journal is JBV's sister journal; Journal of Business Venturing Insights. Under Dimo Dimov's dedicated editorship I think this start-up has become a refreshing forum for non-conformist scholarly contributions. As regards bean counting, it has already attained "Scimago Q1" status-but it is the quality and interestingness of the work it publishes that we should really care about. It is well worth your attention and occasional contributions, no matter what your dean or promotion committee might think.
Best Regards,
Per Davidsson
(I have no editorial role or commercial interests in JBVI. I have published two short commentaries in it).
Best Regards,
Per
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