🎓 Key Journal Indexes for Research

“A good journal index is like a great filter—keeps the gold, dumps the glitter.”

Used for the UT Dallas Top 100 Business School Research Rankings.
Focuses on a select set of elite business journals across major disciplines.
Highly influential in North American business school evaluations.

Financial Times 50

Considered the gold standard for top-tier business schools.
Used to calculate the research rank in global MBA rankings.
Publication is often a benchmark for tenure and promotion.

ABS / AJG (CABS) List

Also known as the Academic Journal Guide (AJG) by the Chartered ABS.
Ranks journals from 1 to 4*, with 4* being world elite status.
Widely used in Europe and beyond for assessing journal quality.

Provides a tiered quality ranking for business journals from A* (highest) to C.
Widely respected guide used by academics globally to assess journal prestige.

Web of Science (WoS)

The definitive source for the prestigious Journal Impact Factor (JIF).
Inclusion in its Core Collection signifies a journal's global influence and quality.

The world's largest abstract and citation database of peer-reviewed literature.
Ranks journals into quartiles (Q1 to Q4), where Q1 represents the top 25% in a field.

The leading index for high-quality, peer-reviewed open-access journals.
Inclusion signifies a commitment to ethical publishing and free access to research.