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Rated Journals Alpha Order
| Updated to June 2008 | |
| Rawls College of Business | |
| Texas Tech University | |
| Rated Journals for Merit Process | |
| For the Annual Merit Years 2004 and Later | |
| Ratified by the Dean's Coordinating Council (DCC) | |
| Rating | Rated Journal in Alpha Order |
| A | Academy of Management Executive |
| A+ | Academy of Management Journal |
| A | Academy of Management Learning and Education |
| A+ | Academy of Management Review |
| A | Accounting Horizons |
| A+ | Accounting Organizations & Society |
| A+ | Accounting Review |
| B+ | ACM Transactions on Database Systems |
| A+ | Administrative Science Quarterly |
| B+ | Advances in Accounting |
| B+ | Advances in Behavioral Research in Accounting |
| B+ | Advances in Taxation |
| A+ | American Economic Review |
| B+ | American Journal of Managed Care (Added 03/07 by DCC Action) |
| A+ | American Journal of Sociology |
| A+ | American Sociological Review |
| B+ | Applied Stochastic Models in Business & Industry |
| A | Auditing: A Journal of Practice & Theory |
| A | Behavioral Research in Accounting |
| B+ | Business and Society |
| A | Business Ethics Quarterly |
| A | California Management Review |
| B+ | Communications in Statistics: Simulation and Computation |
| B+ | Communications in Statistics: Theory and Methods |
| A | Communications of the ACM |
| B+ | Communications of the AIS |
| B+ | Computational Statistics |
| A | Computational Statistics and Data Analysis |
| A | Computer & Operations Research |
| B+ | Computers and Industrial Engineering |
| A+ | Contemporary Accounting Research |
| B+ | Critical Perspectives on Accounting |
| A | Data Base |
| A | Decision Science |
| A | Decision Support Systems |
| A+ | Econometrica |
| B+ | Educational and Psychological Measurement |
| B+ | Employee Responsibilities and Rights Journal |
| A | Entrepreneurship Theory and Practice |
| B+ | European Accounting Review |
| B+ | European Financial Management |
| A | European Journal of Information Systems |
| B+ | European Journal of Marketing |
| A | European Journal of Operational Research |
| B+ | Family Business Review |
| A | Financial Analysts Journal |
| A | Financial Management |
| B+ | Financial Review |
| B+ | Gender, Work, and Organization |
| B+ | Group and Organization Management |
| A | Harvard Business Review |
| A | Health Affairs (Added 2/07 DCC action) |
| A | Health Care Management Review |
| B+ | Health Policy and Planning (Added 03/07 by DCC Action) |
| A+ | Health Services Research |
| A | Human Relations |
| A+ | Human Resource Management |
| B+ | IEEE Computer |
| B+ | IEEE Software |
| A | IEEE Transactions on Software Engineering |
| A | IEEE Transactions on Systems, Man, and Cybernetics |
| A | IIE Transactions |
| A | Industrial and Labor Relations Review |
| A | Industrial Marketing Management |
| A | Industrial Relations |
| A | Information and Management |
| A+ | Information Systems Research |
| A | Interfaces |
| B+ | International Journal of Accounting Information Systems |
| B+ | International Journal of Cross-cultural Management |
| A | International Journal of Electronic Commerce |
| A | International Journal of Forecasting |
| B+ | International Journal of Human-Computer Interaction |
| B+ | International Journal of Human-Computer Studies |
| B+ | International Journal of Industrial Organization |
| B+ | International Journal of Information and Operations Management Education (Added 03/08 DCC Action) |
| B+ | International Journal of Information Systems and Change Management |
| A+ | International Journal of Operations and Production Management |
| A | International Journal of Production Economics (Moved by 3/08 DCC Action) |
| A+ | International Journal of Production Research |
| A | International Journal of Project Management |
| B+ | International Journal of Research in Marketing |
| B+ | International Marketing Review |
| A | International Statistical Review |
| B+ | International Studies of Management and Organization |
| B+ | Issues in Accounting Education |
| A+ | J. Bus. and Economic Statistics |
| A+ | J. Royal Stat. Soc. Series B |
| B+ | Journal of Accountancy |
| A+ | Journal of Accounting & Economics |
| A | Journal of Accounting and Public Policy |
| B+ | Journal of Accounting Education |
| B+ | Journal of Accounting Literature |
| A+ | Journal of Accounting Research |
| A | Journal of Accounting, Auditing, and Finance |
| A | Journal of Advertising |
| A | Journal of Advertising Research |
| B+ | Journal of Applied Behavioral Science |
| A | Journal of Applied Econometrics |
| B+ | Journal of Applied Mathematics & Decision Sciences |
| A+ | Journal of Applied Psychology |
| B+ | Journal of Applied Statistics |
| A | Journal of Banking and Finance |
| A | Journal of Behavioral Decision Making (Added 2/07 DCC action) |
| B+ | Journal of Biopharmaceutical Statistics |
| A+ | Journal of Business |
| B+ | Journal of Business & Industrial Marketing |
| B+ | Journal of Business and Psychology |
| A | Journal of Business Ethics |
| B+ | Journal of Business Finance and Accounting |
| A | Journal of Business Research |
| A | Journal of Business Venturing |
| A | Journal of Computation and Graphical Statistics |
| B+ | Journal of Consumer Affairs |
| B+ | Journal of Consumer Marketing |
| A | Journal of Consumer Psychology |
| A+ | Journal of Consumer Research |
| B+ | Journal of Consumer Satisfaction, Dissatisfaction and Complaining Behavior |
| A | Journal of Corporate Finance |
| B+ | Journal of Database Management |
| B+ | Journal of Derivatives |
| A | Journal of Economic Literature |
| B+ | Journal of Economics and Business |
| A | Journal of Ed. And Behav. Statistics |
| A | Journal of Empirical Finance |
| B+ | Journal of Entrepreneurial Finance & Business Ventures (Bus. Vent. Added to name 6/08) |
| A+ | Journal of Finance |
| A+ | Journal of Financial and Quantitative Analysis |
| B+ | Journal of Financial Econometrics |
| A+ | Journal of Financial Economics |
| A | Journal of Financial Intermediation |
| A | Journal of Financial Markets |
| A | Journal of Financial Research |
| B+ | Journal of Financial Services Research |
| B+ | Journal of Fixed Income |
| B+ | Journal of Forecasting |
| A | Journal of Futures Markets |
| A | Journal of Health and Social Behavior |
| B+ | Journal of Healthcare Management |
| A | Journal of Information Systems |
| B+ | Journal of International Accounting Research |
| B+ | Journal of International Accounting, Auditing & Taxation |
| A | Journal of International Business Studies (Updated title 03/07) |
| B+ | Journal of International Financial Markets, Institutions, and Money |
| B+ | Journal of International Human Resource Management (Added 3/08 DCC Action) |
| A | Journal of International Marketing |
| B+ | Journal of Investing |
| B+ | Journal of Labor Research |
| A | Journal of Law & Economics |
| A | Journal of MacroMarketing |
| A+ | Journal of Management |
| A | Journal of Management Accounting Research |
| A+ | Journal of Management Information Systems |
| B+ | Journal of Management Inquiry |
| A | Journal of Management Studies |
| A | Journal of Manufacturing Systems |
| A+ | Journal of Marketing |
| B+ | Journal of Marketing Education |
| B+ | Journal of Marketing Management |
| A+ | Journal of Marketing Research |
| B+ | Journal of Marketing Theory and Practice |
| A+ | Journal of Monetary Economics |
| A | Journal of Money Credit and Banking |
| B+ | Journal of Nonparametric Statistics |
| B+ | Journal of Operational Research Society |
| A+ | Journal of Operations Management |
| A | Journal of Organization Behavior |
| B+ | Journal of Organizational Computing and Electronic Commerce |
| A | Journal of Personal Selling & Sales Management |
| A+ | Journal of Personality and Social Psychology |
| A+ | Journal of Political Economy |
| A | Journal of Portfolio Management |
| B+ | Journal of Product Innovation Management |
| A | Journal of Public Policy & Marketing |
| A | Journal of Quality Technology |
| A | Journal of Real Estate Finance & Economics |
| B+ | Journal of Real Estate Research |
| A | Journal of Retailing |
| B+ | Journal of Services Marketing |
| A | Journal of Small Business Management |
| B+ | Journal of Statistical Computation and Simulation |
| B+ | Journal of Statistical Planning and Inference |
| B+ | Journal of Statistics Education |
| B+ | Journal of Strategic Information Systems |
| B+ | Journal of Strategic Marketing |
| B+ | Journal of Supply Chain Management (Title Changed 03/08) |
| B+ | Journal of Taxation |
| A+ | Journal of the Academy of Marketing Science |
| A | Journal of the AIS |
| A+ | Journal of the American Statistical Association |
| A+ | Journal of the American Taxation Association |
| A | Journal of Time Series Analysis |
| A | Journal of Vocational Behavior |
| A | Leadership Quarterly |
| B+ | Management Communications Quarterly |
| A | Management International Review (Added 3/08 DCC Action) |
| A+ | Management Science |
| B+ | Managerial and Decision Economics |
| A+ | Manufacturing and Service Operations Management (Correction 3/08 DCC Action) |
| B+ | Marketing Education Review |
| B+ | Marketing Letters |
| A+ | Marketing Science |
| A | Medical Care (Added 2/07 DCC action) |
| B+ | Medical Care Research Review (Added 03/07 by DCC Action) |
| A+ | MIS Quarterly |
| A | MIT Sloan Management Review |
| A | National Tax Journal |
| B+ | Naval Research Logistics |
| A | Omega |
| A+ | Operations Research |
| A | Organization |
| A+ | Organization Behavior and Human Decision Processes |
| A | Organization Research Methods |
| A+ | Organization Science |
| A | Organization Studies |
| B+ | Organizational Dynamics |
| B+ | Pacific Basin Finance Journal |
| A | Personnel Psychology |
| B+ | Pharmaceutical Statistics |
| A | Production and Inventory Management Journal |
| A+ | Psychological Methods |
| A+ | Psychological Review |
| A | Psychology & Marketing |
| B+ | Quality & Quantity |
| B+ | Quality Engineering |
| B+ | Quarterly Journal of Business and Economics |
| A+ | Quarterly Journal of Economics |
| B+ | Quarterly Review of Economics and Finance |
| A | RAND Journal of Economics |
| A | Real Estate Economics |
| B+ | Research in Governmental and Nonprofit Accounting |
| A | Review of Accounting Studies |
| A | Review of Economics and Statistics |
| A+ | Review of Economics and Statistics |
| A+ | Review of Financial Studies |
| B+ | Review of Futures Markets |
| B+ | Review of Quantitative Finance and Accounting |
| B+ | Social Forces |
| A+ | Statistical Science |
| A | Statistics and Computing |
| B+ | Statistics and Probability Letters |
| A+ | Strategic Management Journal |
| B+ | Strategic Organization |
| A | Technometrics |
| B+ | Test |
| A | The American Statistician |
| B+ | The Engineering Economist (Added 03/08 DCC Action) |
| A | Value in Health (Added 2/07 DCC action) |
| B+ | Work and Occupations |
Rated Journals By Discipline
| A+ | A | B+ | |
| (Very prestigious, refereed, in which it is extremely difficult to publish) | (Prestigious, refereed, in which it is very difficult to publish) | (Highly recognized, refereed, in which it is difficult to publish) | |
| Accounting | Accounting Organizations & Society | Accounting Horizons | Advances in Accounting |
| Accounting Review | Auditing: A Journal of Practice & Theory | Advances in Behavioral Research in Accounting | |
| Contemporary Accounting Research | Behavioral Research in Accounting | Advances in Taxation | |
| Journal of Accounting Research | Issues in Accounting Education | Critical Perspectives on Accounting | |
| Review of Accounting Studies | Journal of Accounting and Public Policy | European Accounting Review | |
| Journal of Accounting, Auditing, and Finance | International Journal of Accounting Information Systems | ||
| Journal of Information Systems | Journal of Accountancy | ||
| Journal of Management Accounting Research | Journal of Accounting Education | ||
| Journal of the American Taxation Association | Journal of Accounting Literature | ||
| National Tax Journal | Journal of Business, Finance, and Accounting | ||
| Journal of International Accounting Research | |||
| Journal of International Accounting, Auditing & Taxation | |||
| Journal of Taxation | |||
| Research in Governmental and Nonprofit Accounting | |||
| Finance | Journal of Finance | Financial Analysts Journal | European Financial Management |
| Journal of Financial and Quantitative Analysis | Financial Management | Financial Review | |
| Journal of Financial Economics | Journal of Banking and Finance | Journal of Business Finance and Accounting | |
| Review of Financial Studies | Journal of Corporate Finance | Journal of Derivatives | |
| Journal of Empirical Finance | Journal of Economics and Business | ||
| Journal of Financial Intermediation | Journal of Financial Services Research | ||
| Journal of Financial Markets | Journal of Fixed Income | ||
| Journal of Financial Research | Journal of International Financial Markets, Institutions, and Money | ||
| Journal of Futures Markets | Journal of Investing | ||
| Journal of Portfolio Management | Journal of Entrepreneurial Finance & Business Ventures | ||
| Review of Finance | Pacific Basin Finance Journal | ||
| Quarterly Journal of Finance and Accounting | |||
| Quarterly Journal of Finance | |||
| Review of Futures Markets | |||
| Review of Quantitative Finance and Accounting | |||
| Finance niche | Real Estate | Real Estate Economics | Real Estate Research |
| Journal of Real Estate Finance and Economics | Journal of Housing Research | ||
| Journal of Real Estate Portfolio Management | |||
| Journal of Real Estate Literature | |||
| Management | Academy of Management Review | Academy of Management Perspectives | Asia Pacific Journal of Management |
| Academy of Management Journal | Academy of Management Learning and Education | Corporate Governance: An International review | |
| Strategic Management Journal | British Journal of Management | International Journal of Human Resource Management | |
| Journal of Management | Group and Organization Management | International Journal of Management Reviews | |
| Journal of Management Studies | Human Resource Management | Journal of Applied Behavioral Science | |
| Journal of Organization Behavior | Journal of General Management | ||
| Management International Review | Journal of International Management | ||
| Organization | Journal of Leadership and Organizational Studies | ||
| Organization Studies | Journal of Management Inquiry | ||
| Strategic Organization | Journal of Management Issues | ||
| Journal of Organizational Change Management | |||
| Management and Organization Review | |||
| Management Communications Quarterly | |||
| Organizational Dynamics | |||
| Technology Analysis and Strategic Management | |||
| Management Niche | Entrepreneurship | Entrepreneurship Theory and Practice | Entrepreneurship and Regional Development |
| Family Business Review | International Entrepreneurship and Management Journal | ||
| Journal of Business Venturing | International Small Business Journal | ||
| Journal of Small Business Management | Journal of Development Entrepreneurship | ||
| Strategic Entreprenuership Journal | Small Business Economics | ||
| Marketing | Journal of the Academy of Marketing Science | Industrial Marketing Management | European Journal of Marketing |
| Journal of Consumer Research | Journal of Advertising | Journal of Advertising Research | |
| Journal of Marketing | International Journal of Research in Marketing | International Marketing Review | |
| Journal of Marketing Research | Journal of Consumer Psychology | Journal of Business & Industrial Marketing | |
| Marketing Science | Journal of International Marketing | Journal of Consumer Affairs | |
| Journal of MacroMarketing | Journal of Consumer Marketing | ||
| Journal of Personal Selling & Sales Management | Journal of Consumer Satisfaction, Dissatisfaction and Complaining Behavior | ||
| Journal of Public Policy & Marketing | Journal of Marketing Education | ||
| Journal of Retailing | Journal of Marketing Management | ||
| Psychology & Marketing | Journal of Marketing Theory and Practice | ||
| Journal of Product Innovation Management | |||
| Journal of Services Marketing | |||
| Journal of Strategic Marketing | |||
| Marketing Education Review | |||
| Marketing Letters | |||
| MIS | Decision Support Systems | Communications of the ACM | Communications of the AIS |
| Information Systems Research | DATA BASE | Electronic Commerce Research and Applications | |
| Journal of Management Information Systems | European Journal of Information Systems | Information Systems Frontier | |
| Journal of the Association for Information Systems | International Journal of Human-Computer Studies | ||
| MIS Quarterly | IEEE Transactions on Systems, Man, and Cybernetics | Inernational Journal of Information Management | |
| Information and Management | International Journal of Electronic Business | ||
| Information Sciences | International Journal of Information Quality | ||
| Information Systems Journal | International Journal of Information Technology & Decision Making | ||
| International Journal of Electronic Commerce | Interntional Journal of Intelligent Systems Technologies and Applications | ||
| Journalof Information Technology | Journal of Database Management | ||
| Journal of Strategic Information Systems | Journal of Global Information Technology Management | ||
| Journal of Information Systems Security | |||
| Journal of Information Technology Management | |||
| Journal of Intelligent Information Systems | |||
| Journal of Organizational Computing and Electronic Commerce | |||
| Operations | International Journal of Operations and Production Management | Computer & Operations Research | Computers and Industrial Engineering |
| International Journal of Production Research | European Journal of Operational Research | International Journal of Information and Operations Management Education | |
| Journal of Operations Management | IIE Transactions | International Journal of Services and Operations Management | |
| Manufacturing and Service Operations Management | Interfaces | International Journal of Information Systems and Change Management | |
| Operations Research | International Journal of Production Economics | Journal of Business Valuation and Economic Loss Analysis | |
| International Journal of Project Management | Journal of Operational Research Society | ||
| Journal of Risk and Insurance | Journal of Supply Chain Management | ||
| Omega | Managerial and Decision Economics | ||
| Production and Inventory Management Journal | Naval Research Logistics | ||
| Proudction & Operations Management Journal | Quality Engineering | ||
| The Engineering Economist | |||
| Statistics | J. Royal Stat. Soc. Series B | The American Statistician | Journal of Applied Statistics |
| Journal of the American Statistical Association | International Statistical Review | Test | |
| Statistical Science | Journal of Computation and Graphical Statistics | Statistics and Probability Letters | |
| Review of Economics and Statistics | Journal of Applied Econometrics | Journal of Forecasting | |
| J. Bus. and Economic Statistics | Technometrics | Journal of Statistical Planning and Inference | |
| Journal of Time Series Analysis | Computational Statistics | ||
| Computational Statistics and Data Analysis | Journal of Statistical Computation and Simulation | ||
| Journal of Ed. And Behav. Statistics | Communications in Statistics: Simulation and Computation | ||
| Statistics and Computing | Journal of Nonparametric Statistics | ||
| International Journal of Forecasting | Communications in Statistics: Theory and Methods | ||
| Quality & Quantity | |||
| Journal of Financial Econometrics | |||
| Journal of Statistics Education | |||
| Pharmaceutical Statistics | |||
| Journal of Biopharmaceutical Statistics | |||
| Energy Commerce niche | Energy | Resources and Energy Economics | |
| Energy Economic | Utilities Policy | ||
| Energy Policy | Journal of Regulatory Economics | ||
| Renewable Energy | Energy Law Journal | ||
| Energy Journal | Journal of Law, Economics and Policy | ||
| HOM niche | Health Affairs | Journal of Helthcare Management | |
| Health Care Management Review | Health Economics | ||
| Health Services Research | Journal of Health Administration Education | ||
| Journal of American Medical Informatics Association | American Journal of Evaluation | ||
| Implementation Science | Journal of Medical Practice Management | ||
| Other | American Economic Review | Business Ethics Quarterly | Business Horizons |
| (Cross Disciplinary) | American Journal of Sociology | California Management Review | Business and Society |
| American Sociological Review | Decision Science | Educational and Psychological Measurement | |
| Administrative Science Quarterly | Harvard Business Review | European Journal of Work and Organizational Psychology | |
| Econometrica | Human Relations | Gender, Work, and Organization | |
| Journal of Accounting & Economics | Industrial and Labor Relations Review | International Business Review | |
| Journal of Applied Psychology | Industrial Relations | International Journal of Industrial Organization | |
| Journal of Business Logistics | International Journal of Pyhsical Distribution & Logistics Management | Journal of Applied Social Psychology | |
| Journal of International Business Studies | Journal of Behavioral Decision Making | Journal of Business and Psychology | |
| Journal of Monetary Economics | Journal of Business Ethics | Journal of International Human Resource Management | |
| Journal of Personality and Social Psychology | Journal of Business Research | Journal of Labor Research | |
| Journal of Political Economy | Journal of Economic Literature | Journall of Occupational and Organizational Psychology | |
| Management Science | Journal of Law & Economics | Journal of Technology Transfer | |
| Organization Behavior and Human Decision Processes | Journal of Services Research | Leadership | |
| Organization Science | Journal of Vocational Behavior | Nonprofit and Voluntary Sector Quarterly | |
| Personnel Psychology | Journal of World Business | Organization and Environment | |
| Psychological Methods | Leadership Quarterly | R&D Management | |
| Psychological Review | MIT Sloan Management Review | Research technology Management | |
| Quarterly Journal of Economics | Organization Research Methods | Social Forces | |
| Structural Equation Modeling | RAND Journal of Economics | Technovation |
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