Speed Rating
Speed/ Processing Time of Different Journals in Management/Inter Business/ Marketing as on March 2017 (will be updated time to time) Journal A. M. L. E. Asia Pacific Bus Review Australasian Marketing Journal British J of Management
Avge/ Maximum time for Desk Rejection
Time Given to Reviewers
Actual Avge elapsed time for first decision
Do you reject after R2
2 weeks
30 days
40 days
3 days
30 days
33 days
No
5 days
30 days
35 days
Unlikel y
11 days/1 month
30 days
77 days
Yes
Desk Expected rejecti Overall on Speed Rating (2016) for 2017 % High
Medium Fast Fast Slow
53 Fast
Business Horizons
2-3 days
Editor-decision
Canadian J. of Adm. Science Critical Perspectives in International Bus
8 days/ + 5 days
28 days
1 month
2 months
Global Strategy Journal
3 to 7 days
30 days + 30 days
43 days for first, 61 final
I. J. of retail & Dbn Management
1 month
2 months
Long Time
Inter. J. of Emerging Markets International Business Review International Trade J International Marketing Review Journal of African Business J of AMS Journal of Brand Mgmt Journal of Business Venturing J of International business studies J. Inter Entrepreneurship
2 to 5 days 3/5 days 2 to 10 days 1 month (experience)
1 month 40 days/6 weeks 1 month
No New EIC has speed.
40 and 104 days for first/final decision.
Fast Very High 24 No
No
2 months
No
Yes
30 days
50 days
3/5 days
25 days
1 month
3 months
No response Long Time (2 times experience) No response
7 days/12 days
1 month
68 days
3 weeks
6 weeks, but editor takes time
Long Time (experience)
No
Slow Medium, Reviewing coeditor is slow. Slow Most Sr Editors are fast
EIC fast
2 to 4 months.
4 days
18 days
Very High
Low
Medium
30
Medium Slow
N/A
Fast
High N/A
Fast Slow
Very High High in 2017 High
Medium Medium Slow
J. of Business Research
J. of Consumer Behavior J of Consumer Marketing J. of Global marketing Journal of Global Mobility J. of International Management J. of International Marketing J. of Management J of Marketing J of Marketing channels J of Marketing Mgmt J. of Promotion management J. of Retiling & Consumer Services
1 week to 45 days
Medium as some AEs are slow Slow
1 month
3 to 4 months (2 time experience)
5 days in 2017 1 to 2 months in 2016.
1 month
Depends on Coeditor.
2 weeks
2 months
New EIC is slow
24 to 48 hrs
25 days
New EIC has speed
Typical ly Not
1-3 days
3 weeks
1 month
No
1-2 Days
1 month
30 days, but reviewers take time
Unlikel y
3 days
30 days
40 days
7 days 30 days (experience)
30 days
41 days
5 days
30 days
Slow
60 days
Occasi onally Yes
45 days
No
15
Fast
60
Fast
34
Fast Fast Slow
36
1 month 3 months
Yes
2 days
20 days
40
NO
J. of Small Bus Mgmt
2 weeks
6 weeks R&R- 4 weeks
8 weeks
Rarely
J. of Strategic Marketing
1 to 2 months in 2016
6 weeks
48 hrs Avge
30 days
54-57 days
3 to 5 days Couple of Days 1 month
45 days
50 days
1 week
Marketing Science
1 to 2 weeks
Psychology & Marketing
1 week/3 weeks 3 months (experience based)
Quanti. Marketing & Economics
Fast
No
1 month
Journal of World Business Long Range Planning Marketing Communication Marketing Letters
15
Slow Fast 50 Fast 40
High
Yes
Fast
Slow (3 times experience) Slow Fast
45 Medium Slow
3 months More than 50%
Slow Slow Slow
3 months
Slow No response No response
Small Business Economics Thunderbird I. B. R.
2 Weeks
1 month
50 days
3 days
3 months
No response
Medium Slow
Purpose: To help authors to decide which journals to submit their work based on the speed of the journal as well as the statistics that they would like to know. This is mainly because in subjects such as Science/ Technology/Finance, journals are much faster and efficient (For ex, Their desk rejection rate is < 10%),and take final decision in maximum 3 months. There was a felt need to do this exercise as some journals in Mgmt/marketing have taken 10 to 12 months to get one review report and 3 months for desk rejection. Method Followed: An email was sent to the editors/editorial offices of more than 50 journals in the Management, International Business and marketing subjects. Most of the editors participated with the statistics. Some of them did not respond. Response rate was 65%. Note: This list is prepared/edited by Dr Justin Paul, Professor- University of Puerto Rico
Graduate school of Business, USA (formerly, faculty member, University of Washington) with inputs from different editors. The editor of this list has used experience- based information as a reviewer, author and SI editor of different journals. He has experience of submitting articles to most of these journals. His page is facebook.com/drjustinpaul and web is drjustinpaul.com and email is
[email protected]. This list will be updated every month, with more journals, providing data. Profile of the editor of this list: Professor Justin Paul
Dr Justin Paul is a full professor with the graduate school of business University of Puerto Rico, San juan, PR, USA. He is known as an author/co-author of text books titled – International Business (6th edition) and Export-Import Management (2nd edition), International Marketing (2nd edition), Business Environment by McGraw-Hill, Pearson & Oxford University Press respectively out of which two books have turned out to be best sellers. Over 100,000 copies of his books have been sold over last 8 years. He is also an author of four Ivey-Harvard case studies, which are used in classrooms worldwide (1. Louis Vuitton in Japan 2. Ferro Industries: Exporting Challenge 3. L’oserie: Turnaround Challenges 4. Malaysia’s Genting: Gambling on the West). He has served as a faculty member with the University of Washington and as an Associate Professor with the Nagoya University of Commerce & Business- Japan. He has served as an editor of three journals- Small Business Economics, the International Trade Journal and Journal of East West Business for special issues and as an Associate Editor of Journal of Global Marketing. He is also on the editorial board/ERB of Journal of Academy of marketing science, journal of small business management etc. He served as Department Chairperson at Indian Institute of Management (IIM), at age 30 and has been a visiting professor to teach courses at, Aarhus University- Denmark (twice), Deakin University-Australia, Grenoble Eco le de Management-France, Universite De Versailles -France, Vienna University of Economics & Business, ISM University-Lithuania, SP Jain-Dubai and Warsaw School of Economics-Poland. He has published over 50 research papers in reputed
journals. Justin was a reviewer for 40 articles for 25 plus journals in the year 2016. Prior to joining academia, he has served as a bank manager for 2.5 years in Export-Import Financing department. Other Tips: 1. Elsevier/Wiley/Springer/Sage journals are faster, after acceptance, to publish the articles online, in comparison to other companies. Those four get Fast rating in Speed (from the date of acceptance to the date of publication). 2. We would like to have your feedback on this. Email to
[email protected] 3. Speed Rating in Column 7 is based on the weighted avge score of data in column 2, 3, 4 and 6. 4. Authors need to understand that editors are busy as they get many papers and editors need to understand that authors check the online status daily after the submission.
