99 Entrepreneurship Journals A Comp

99 Entrepreneurship Journals
A Comparative Empirical Investigation of Rankings, Impact, and H/HC-Index
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Sean Patrick Sassmannshausen
Schumpeter School of Business and Economics
Wuppertal University, Germany
Corresponding author: [email protected]
Work in progress, comments welcome!
“…we have all in some way or another fallen under the seductive power of academic journal
rankings even as we harbor serious reservations about their value.” (Nkomo 2009, p. 106)
Abstract
This article takes stock of 99 journals dedicated to the field of entrepreneurship research
and examines their evaluations and impact. It compares several journal quality
assessments, the Australian ERA 2010, ABDC 2010 and UQ 2011 lists, with other
international rankings and with highly regarded impact measurements. In a following
section, the H-Index and the HC-Index for journals are introduced. The H-Indices are
Google Scholar based impact measurements which can be easily executed by anyone. The
results for the entrepreneurship journals H-Indices are compared with other impact factors
and with journal rankings from Australia and elsewhere. Results reveal that rankings are
incomplete in regard to entrepreneurship journals and that many rankings are inconsistent
when compared to impact measurements. This holds true even for the ERA and the
ABDC 2010 lists, even though these are among the most appropriate lists