As you may know, the Financial Times uses a list of 45 journals to assess research quality and determine business school rankings (http://www.ft.com/cms/s/2/3405a512-5cbb-11e1-8f1f-00144feabdc0.html#axzz48pTKFgOO.) We recently learned that the Academy of Management Review (AMR) may be removed from this FT 45 list of journals.
We find this troubling, as AMR has consistently been ranked among the top five most influential and frequently cited journals in our field. In fact, AMR is ranked #1 in the category of business and #2 in the category of Management (Thompson Reuters, 2014). The journal's impact factor is 7.45 with a 5 year impact factor of 10.736.
AMR consistently publishes the highest quality theoretical work done in the field. With close to *5 million downloads* to its content in 2015, AMR is an essential resource for management scholars and students who seek to understand the "why's and how's" behind timely and fundamental organizational problems faced by managers and organizations.
Your school may be asked to vote on whether to keep AMR on the Financial Times list of journals. If so, please contact your representative as soon as possible to make sure that AMR stays on the list. You can also contact the Financial Times directly by sending an e-mail to Laurent Ortmans: mba@ft.com
Please do so soon, as the deadline for voting is Friday 17 June.
Thank you for your support.
Debra L. Shapiro, Ph.D.
President, Academy of Management
Clarice Smith Professor, Management Department, U of MD
DShapiro@rhsmith.umd.edu