Background

In 1999, the Financial Times of London, adopted a new way of looking at the research element of their annual MBA ranking at the same time as they began to include schools from Asia in the survey. The new approach was to analyze top publications for frequency of articles from participating schools. All schools were asked to submit the name of three titles in each of 10 subject areas relevant to business research. A list of 30 top journals was eventually compiled based on the collective recommendations by those schools. In addition, five practitioner journals were also selected using the same method. From 2003, the list expanded to include 35 academic journals, making the total 40. In 2010, Financial Times has revised the list to 45. These 45 academic and practitioner journals are generally considered the most prestigious and respected in their fields.

  1. Accounting, Organisations and Society (Elsevier)
  2. Contemporary Accounting Research (Wiley)
  3. Journal of Accounting and Economics (Elsevier)
  4. Journal of Accounting Research (University of Chicago)
  5. Review of Accounting Studies (Springer)
  6. The Accounting Review (American Accounting Association)
  7. Entrepreneurship Theory and Practice (Baylor University, Waco, Texas)
  8. Journal of Business Venturing (Elsevier)
  9. Academy of Management Journal (Academy of Management, Ada, Ohio)
  10. Academy of Management Review (Academy of Management)
  11. Journal of Management Studies (Wiley)
  12. Journal of International Business Studies (Academy of International Business)
  13. Strategic Management Journal (John Wiley and Sons)
  14. Journal of Marketing (American Marketing Association)
  15. Journal of Marketing Research (American Marketing Association)
  16. Journal of Consumer Psychology (Elsevier)
  17. Journal of Consumer Research (University of Chicago)
  18. Marketing Science (Informs)
  19. Journal of Applied Psychology (American Psychological Association).
  20. Organization Science (Informs)
  21. Organization Studies (SAGE)
  22. Organizational Behavior and Human Decision Processes (Academic Press)
  23. Administrative Science Quarterly (Cornell University)
  24. Journal of the American Statistical Association (American Statistical Association)
  25. The Journal of Business Ethics (Kluwer Academic)
  26. Econometrica (Econometric Society, University of Chicago)
  27. Journal of Political Economy (University of Chicago)
  28. Quarterly Journal of Economics (MIT)
  29. The American Economic Review (American Economic Association, Nashville)
  30. The Rand Journal of Economics (The Rand Corporation)
  31. Journal of Finance (Blackwell)
  32. Journal of Financial and Quantitative Analysis
  33. Journal of Financial Economics (Elsevier)
  34. Review of Financial Studies (Oxford University Press)
  35. Human Resource Management (John Wiley and Sons)
  36. Information Systems Research (Informs)
  37. Journal of Operations Management (Elsevier)
  38. MIS Quarterly (Management Information Systems Research Center, University of Minnesota)
  39. Management Science (Informs)
  40. Operations Research (Informs)
  41. Production and Operations Management (POMS)
  42. Academy of Management Perspectives (Academy of Management/ OUP)
  43. California Management Review (UC Berkeley)
  44. Harvard Business Review (Harvard Business School Publishing)
  45. Sloan Management Review (MIT))