2020 Impact Factors Out

2020 Impact Factors Out

Clarivate (Thomsen-Reuters) have published the new journal impact factors. It is fantastic to see that Industrial Marketing Management again has increased its impact factor, this time from 4.695 in 2019 to 6.96 in 2020. Likewise, the journal’s 5-year impact factor has increased from 5.868 in 2019 to 8.698 in 2020.

Industrial Marketing Management’s impact factor is better than five of the eight marketing journals rated 4 or 4* on the AJG list; and Industrial Marketing Management is just under the AJG 4*-rated Journal of Consumer Research (7.0). And Industrial Marketing Management’s Google h-index (73) is better than all the six marketing journals on the FT 50 list.

The above increases indicate Industrial Marketing Management’s sustained growth that again rests on the fact that authors and reviewers are contributing with great manuscripts and reviews. Another explanation is that Industrial Marketing Management has gone through a process of continuous improvement over the past years:   

• The journal has emerged as the leading academic journal to focus on business-to-business (B2B) and industrial marketing.

• The journal’s annual Industrial Marketing Management Summit brings leading scholars together to discuss issues, trends, and developments within the B2B field. Other examples are the use of special issues that explore emerging ideas, as well as the continuous improvement in the quality of B2B research by publishing a number of special-issue editorials and a series of “How to” editorials aiming to enrich research practice. Examples also include our new sections ‘Academic-Practitioner Papers’, ‘Methodological Papers’, ‘Interdisciplinary Research’, ‘Target and Position Papers’.

• Evidence of the success of this process of continuous improvement lies in a number of areas. First, the journal has achieved a steady growth in the number of manuscripts submitted, while the number of acceptances has decreased thereby indicating an improvement in manuscript quality from authors around the world.

We believe that the points raised above support a convincing picture of the extent to which Industrial Marketing Management has managed to radically improve its position.

Thank you all for your support! Let us all continue to work at improving Industrial Marketing Management even more.