Answered By: Alice Cann
Last Updated: 09 Nov, 2023     Views: 59761

The Academic Journal Guide produced by the Chartered Association of Business Schools (CABS) is a good place to get an indication of journal quality and ranking. The most recent is the 2021 version and builds on work carried out on previous editions. You need to register/login to search the revised Guide. The journals are given a star rating from 1* to 4* (the highest). Read the documentation within the guide to learn more about the purpose and features of it and to decide whether this is suitable for you to use. The linked answer on searching within 3 or 4 start rated journals demonstrates how to search within these journals in the database Business Source Premier.

An alternative is the Journal Quality List compiled by Prof. Anne-Wil Harzing. More details about both this list and the CABS guide can be found on the Library's Journal quality lists webpage.

Impact factors, available in the Journal Citation Report, and Citescore, SJR and SNIP, available in Scopus, are other methods of assessing journal quality, good for areas beyond the business and business related fields covered in the ABS guide.

Many journals put their CABS ranking, impact factor or Citescore on their publisher's website.