About the Journal

About the Journal

 

The American Journal of Business  (AJB) develops and applies theory to modern business organizations. A core principal of AJB is recognizing the interplay of all the functional areas of business and that modern business cannot be properly evaluated in functional area silos. Moreover, AJB is dedicated to applying theories from all areas of business to a wide variety of business decisions, processes and activities within the actual business setting. Theoretical and empirical advances in buyer behavior, finance, organizational theory and behavior, marketing, risk and insurance and international business are evaluated on a regular basis. Published for executives, researchers and scholars alike, the Journal aids the application of empirical research to practical situations and theoretical findings to the reality of the business world.

Indexing Information

Articles from the American Journal of Business can be found in

  • Australian Business Deans (ABDC) List
  • PROQUEST-Entrepreneurship Studies Source
  • EBSCO-Entrepreneurship
  • Google Scholar
  • Ulrichs Web
  • The Australian Research Council Index

Impact Information

We uses the h-index to measure the impact of its research. We chose this approach as the ISI (Thomson Reuters) citation approach only includes journals listed within their proprietary database. The h-index uses Google Scholar which is a better representation of all published work and we believe it is the direction of the future.

The h-index is an easy to understand method, proposed by Jorge E. Hirsch, to quantitatively measure the impact of a particular researcher or academic journal. For example, a journal has an h-index of 5, if, during the years 2017 and 2018, five of the total papers published during those years were each cited at least five times. The selection of the years 2017 and 2018 allows for an extra full year (2019) to account for the typical delay in the publication of research, and therefore in the production of new citations.

The 2019 h-index for the American Journal of Business is 15.

As a point of comparison, the 2017 h-index for the Journal of Marketing Management is 8,

and the 2017 h-index for the Journal of Applied Business Research is 2.