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Thompson Scientific (formerly ISI) Adds Emerald’s Journal of Business and Industrial Marketing to its Social Sciences Citation Index
35 Emerald journals now ranked by Thompson Scientific
United Kingdom, 23 April 2007 - Emerald Group Publishing Limited is pleased to announce the inclusion of the Journal of Business and Industrial Marketing in the Thomson Scientific (formerly ISI) Social Sciences Citation Index. Bringing the total number of Emerald journals listed in Thompson Scientific to 35 with a further two listed on their Current Contents Connect update service.
Whilst the journal has been covered in some of the Thomson Scientific services – such as the alerting services – for some time, it is inclusion in the Social Science Citation Index leads to the provision of a journal impact factor – deemed an important indicator of quality by much of the academic community around the world.
The Journal of Business and Industrial Marketing focuses on the ways in which companies market their products, services and ideas to other companies (B2B marketing). Disseminated both individually and as part of the Emerald Management Xtra database, it has a global audience – during 2006 articles from the journal were downloaded on no less than 175,114 occasions by users in pretty much every corner of the world.
Having just passed its 21st birthday the journal has garnered loyal support from some of the world’s leading marketing authors – recent authors have included such major figures as Christian Grönroos, Jagdish Sheth, George Day and Evert Gummesson with others such as Philip Kotler to appear in forthcoming issues.
Shelby Hunt, of Texas Tech University and past Editor of the Journal of Marketing (publication of the American Marketing Association)
Emerald currently publishes the largest single collection of marketing journals worldwide and this excellent news from Thomson Scientific means that three of these titles – European Journal of Marketing, International Marketing Review and now Journal of Business and Industrial Marketing are included in the Social Sciences Citation Index. Emerald will be making further applications for inclusion of its journals in due course.
The final word must go to Professor Wesley Johnston of Georgia State University, USA – only the second Editor the journal has had and in the post since 1993, steadily and patiently building the journal’s quality and reputation. “This is excellent news for the editorial team and for the journal’s authors – inclusion of Journal of Business and Industrial Marketing in the Social Sciences Citation Index is one more indicator that our journal’s contribution to the development of knowledge in this field is key – news like this is a great boost and another motivation to continue our progress. I would like to express my thanks to my university for its support of myself and my staff over the years – this has been a major source of encouragement.”
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