Speed/ Processing Time of Different Journals in Management & Marketing as on April 2017 (mainly using 2016 data). Expect Yearly Update Avge/Maximum time for Desk Rejection
Time Given to Reviewers
Avge elapsed time for first decision
2 weeks
30 days
40 days
5 days
30 days
31 days
Unlikely
11 days/1 month
30 days
77 days
Yes
2-3 days
Editordecision
8 days/ + 5 days
28 days
New EIC has speed.
3 days
30 days
No response
1 month
2 months
1 week
1 month
3-4 days
6 weeks/40 days
4 days
30 days
50 days
18 days
No response from the office
No response
7 days/12 days
1 month
68 days
4-5 Days 1 month 1 week. But SI editor took 45 days after deadline
25 days 3 months
1 to 2 months
1 month
2 weeks
2 months
No response
25 days
J of Global Mobility
1-3 days
3 weeks
1 month
Never
J. of International Management
1-2 Days
1 month
30 days
Unlikely
Journal A. M. L. E. Australasian Marketing Journal British J of Management Business Horizons Canadian J. of Adm. Science Global Strategy Journal I. J. of retail & Dbn Management Inter. J. of Emerging Markets International Business Review Journal of African Business Journal of Business Venturing J of International business studies J. AMS J of Brand Mgmt J. of Business Research J. of Consumer Behavior J of Consumer Marketing J. of Global marketing
1 month
Do you reject after R2
No
Will be updated yearly
Speed
Desk rejection (2016) %
Expected Overall Speed Rating for 2017 Medium Fast Slow
53 Fast Very High Fast Fast
More than 100 days 114 days for final decision
Slow Medium Medium Yes
N/A
Fast
Very High
Medium
High in 2017 High
Medium
Long time Depends on AE’s dynamism
Fast Slow Medium as some AEs are slow Medium
New EIC is slow New EIC has speed
Slow Fast Less than 5 60
Fast Fast
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
3 days
30 days
40 days
7 days 30 days (2 times experience)
30 days
41 days
5 days
30 days
60 days
Occasio nally Yes
34
Fast Slow
No 45 days
No
36
1 month 1 month
3 months
Yes
2 days
20 days
40
NO
J. of Small Bus Mgmt
2 weeks
6 weeks
Long Time (experience)
J. of Strategic Marketing Journal of Brand Management Journal of World Business Marketing Communication Marketing letters
2 months (experience)
6 weeks
1 month
3 months
Long time
30 days
54-57 days
3 months
Long time
Marketing Science
1 to 2 weeks
Quanti. Marketing & Economics Small Business Economics Thunderbird I. B. R.
3 months (experience based)
No response
2 Weeks
1 month
3 days
3 months
1 week
48 hrs
Fast
Fast Slow Fast
50 Fast 40 Medium Slow
3 weeks
Less than 50% Yes
Slow Fast
45 Slow High More than 50%
Slow Slow Slow
50 days
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. 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 year.
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 – Business Environment, International Business (6th edition) and Export-Import Management (2nd edition), International Marketing (2nd edition) 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. 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 and got promoted as full professor at age 39 in American system. 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 has served 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 UniversityAustralia, 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.
