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Hi All,

We editorial team at the Journal of Business Venturing (JBV) have two important announcements to share with you.  

First, we have very recently set up social media channels as a means to increase communication with our reviewers, authors, and the broader entrepreneurship research community. We have a Facebook page, a Twitter account, and a LinkedIn group. These can be accessed as follows: 

Facebook: @JnlBusVenturing; https://www.facebook.com/JnlBusVenturing/

Twitter: @JnlBusVenturing; https://twitter.com/JnlBusVenturing

LinkedIn group:  Journal of Business Venturing - search for this group or go to the following URL: https://www.linkedin.com/groups/12052320

If you use any of these social media platforms and wish to stay connected with JBV, please feel free to "like", "follow" and participate.  

Second, we are excited to use the launch of our social media channels as a means to share the most recent Journal Impact Factors that were announced earlier this week. We are thrilled to report that the impact factors of most entrepreneurship journals have grown substantially, and in particular, the Journal of Business Venturing performed exceptionally well.

Although imperfect, the impact factor is commonly used to measure the quality of a journal. The impact factor is important to many people in the scholarly community including junior scholars facing promotion and tenure decisions based on their entrepreneurship research published in the Journal of Business Venturing.

JBV has made substantial progress here. JBV's current impact factor is 5.774 (five-year impact factor = 8.284). This compares favorably to other quality journals in:

Entrepreneurship, such as Entrepreneurship Theory and Practice (4.916), Journal of Small Business Management (2.876), Strategic Entrepreneurship Journal (2.537) and Small Business Economics (2.421).

Management and Organizations, such as Administrative Science Quarterly (4.9) Organization Science (2.691), and Management Science (2.822).

Strategy, such as Strategic Management Journal (4.461) and Strategic Organization (1.941).

Innovation, such as Research Policy (4.495), and Journal of Product Innovation Management (3.759).

Organizational Behavior, such as Personnel Psychology (4.362), Journal of Applied Psychology (4.130), Journal of Organizational Behavior (3.607); and Organizational Behavior and Human Decision Processes (2.454).

Marketing, such as the Journal of Marketing (5.318), Journal of Consumer Research (3.800), and Journal of Marketing Research (3.654).

Disciplinary journals in Economics, such as Economic Geography (5.344), American Economic Review (4.026), Journal of Political Economy (3.923), and Econometrica (3.379).

Sociology, such as the American Sociological Review (4.400) and American Journal of Sociology (3.088).

We believe our multi-disciplinary, multi-functional, and multi-contextual strategy is bearing fruit. We also hasten to note that we have grown the impact factor without inflationary actions such as high self-citations. Much of the credit for the implementation of this strategy goes to our high-quality reviewers. Thank you to our reviewers for everything that you have done and continue to do for the journal.

We look forward to getting many more high-quality manuscripts and we will work hard to provide useful developmental feedback and quick turnaround times on submissions. 

Sent on behalf of the JBV Editorial Team. 

Kind regards, 

Greg