International Small Business Journal
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Former names | European Small Business Journal (until 1983, ISSN 0264-6560) |
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Abbreviated title (ISO 4) | Int. Small Bus. J. |
| Discipline | Economics |
| Language | English |
| Edited by | Robert Blackburn |
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Publication history | 1982-present |
| Frequency | Bimonthly |
| 1.397 | |
| Indexing | |
| ISSN |
0266-2426 (print) 1741-2870 (web) |
| LCCN | 86015275 |
| OCLC no. | 67056182 |
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The International Small Business Journal (ISBJ) is a peer-reviewed academic journal that covers the fields of economics and entrepreneurship, especially small businesses. The journal's editor-in-chief is Robert Blackburn (Kingston University). It was established in 1982 and is currently published by SAGE Publications.
Abstracting and indexing
The journal is abstracted and indexed in Current Contents, the Business Periodicals Index, the International Bibliography of the Social Sciences, Scopus, and the Social Sciences Citation Index. According to the Journal Citation Reports, its 2013 impact factor is 1.397, ranking it 55th out of 110 journals in the category "Business"[1] and 70th out of 172 journals in the category "Management".[2]
Virtual Issues
The International Small Business Journal has brought together several collections of research, previously published in the journal, in ‘virtual issues’ centered on key themes in the field. Recent virtual issues include Female Entrepreneurship, which explores the journal’s contribution to female entrepreneurship research,[3] and Remembering Jason Cope which celebrates the life, and academic legacy, of the late entrepreneurship scholar.[4]
Best Paper Award
In 2008 The International Small Business Journal founded the ISBJ Best Paper Prize, which is awarded annually to the authors of one paper, published in the journal, in the year of the award. The papers are assessed in terms of "focus […]; theoretical positioning; methodological rigour; policy and or practitioner implications; and interest for future research activity".[5]
Editors
- Editor-in-chief: Robert Blackburn
- Editor: Susan Marlow
- Consulting editors: Dirk De Clercq, Rachel Doern, Francis Greene, Vishal Gupta, Robert T Hamilton, Dilani Jayawarna, Peter Jennings, Teemu Kautonen, Einar Rasmussen, Erno Tornikoski
- Social Media Editor: Sarah Drakopoulou Dodd[6]
References
- ↑ "Journals Ranked by Impact: business". 2013 Journal Citation Reports. Web of Science (Social Sciences ed.). Thomson Reuters. 2014.
- ↑ "Journals Ranked by Impact: management". 2013 Journal Citation Reports. Web of Science (Social Sciences ed.). Thomson Reuters. 2014.
- ↑ Female Entrepreneurship
- ↑ Remembering Jason Cope
- ↑ "ISBJ Best Paper Prizes". Retrieved 29 September 2014.
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