Ranking of EM

Current Rankings

• Social Sciences Citations Index (ISI - Institute for Scientific Information) -  2010 added in Thomson Reuters Master Journal List 
  An official impact factor for EM will be available in the third quarter of 2011. A conservative preliminary calculation of our publisher Springer yielded a factor of 0,56 for 2010. 
• Australian Research Council (ARC): see "Ranked Journal List" (EM ranked as A journal) (Apr 19, 2010)
• ERA Current Rankings Access: EM is listed as A journal (Apr 19, 2010)
• The Index of Information Systems Journals: EM is listed as A journal (Apr 19, 2010)
• CSCW-Publikations-Orientierungsliste: EM is listed as A journal (Feb, 2009)
• WI-Orientierungsliste - WI-Journalliste 2008: EM is listed as A journal (Dec, 2007)

Over the past few years, a few studies comparing scientific journals in the information systems but also specifically in the electronic commerce fields have been published in scientific outlets. Of these studies, we would like to highlight two of the most recent. In addition we would like to present you the current rank of EM in selected ranking lists. We start with a short overview of key metrics for EM obtained from analysis of Google Scholar citation data.

Electronic Markets is currently abstracted and indexed by the following services:

• ABI/INFORM
• ABS Academic Journal Quality Guide
• Business Source Alumni Edition
• Business Source Complete
• Business Source Corporate
• Business Source Premier
• Computer Science Index
• Computer Source
• International Bibliography of the Social Sciences (IBSS)
• OCLC ArticleFirst Database
• OCLC FirstSearch Electronic Collections Online
• TOC Premier
  
  

Metrics based on Google Scholar data

We used Harzing's Publish or Perish tool to obtain the following metrics by using EM's ISSN as a search phrase in the General citation search. Covering the publications since 1991 to 2010, our journal's h-index is 42 and the g-index is 75.

For publications between 2000 and 2010 (last 10 years) the h-index value is 35 and the g-index value is 55.

Last update: Sep 10, 2010.

If you are interested in more information about these indexes we suggest reading: Anne-Wil Harzing and Ron van der Wal - Comparing the Google Scholar h-index with the ISI Journal Impact Factor.

Scientific Studies of Electronic Commerce Journals

In this area, we are aware of only one survey and related article, namely the study by Pratyush Bharati and Peter Tarasewich, published in the Communications of the ACM, entitled "Global Perceptions of Journals Publishing E-Commerce Research" (Communications of the ACM, Vol. 45, No. 5, May 2002, pp. 21-26).

Here the authors found that Electronic Markets ranked very highly among all scientific publications for e-commerce research. Specifically Electronic Markets was ranked:

• 3rd globally for the quality of research it published, as perceived by e-commerce researchers worldwide, and
• 7th globally regarding the appropriateness as a publication outlet for e-commerce research
  

out of a total of over 62 publications. These findings were based on a sample of 249 drawn from a total base of approximately 3,189 potential respondents. For more information, please see the full article.

Scientific Studies of IS Journals

In 2003, a study by Ken Peffers and Tang Ya was published in the Journal of Information Technology Theory and Application, entitled "Identifying and Evaluating the Universe of Outlets for information Systems Research: Ranking the Journals" (Journal of Information Technology Theory and Application, Vol. 5, No. 1, 2003, pp. 63-84). In this study, the authors' main aim was to identify the possible outlets for scientific research in the information systems field, and assess the value of these outlets to researchers.

In this study, Electronic Markets was identified as belonging in the core IS research journals group, and was ranked 29th out of 114 publications considered in this category for perceived value as a research outlet. This is a notable achievement since Electronic Markets was only marginally in the core IS journals group (52.14% of respondents identified it as a core IS research publication), but nevertheless managed to rank more highly than many journals which were more generally considered core IS publications.

The findings of this study are based on a sample of 1129 validated and non-duplicate responses which were collected between October 29, 2002 and January 15, 2003. The sample was drawn from a total base of approximately 3,069 potential respondents. For more information, please see the full article.