About this journal
Aims and scope
Total Quality Management & Business Excellence is an international journal which sets out to stimulate thought and research in all aspects of total quality management and to provide a natural forum for discussion and dissemination of research results. The journal is designed to encourage interest in all matters relating to total quality management and is intended to appeal to both the academic and professional community working in this area.
Total Quality Management & Business Excellence is the culture of an organization committed to customer satisfaction through continuous improvement. This culture varies both from one country to another and between different industries, but has certain essential principles which can be implemented to secure greater market share, increased profits and reduced costs.
The journal provides up-to-date research, consultancy work and case studies right across the whole field including quality culture, quality strategy, quality systems, tools and techniques of total quality management and the implementation in both the manufacturing and service sectors. No topics relating to total quality management are excluded from consideration in order to develop business excellence.
Peer Review Policy:
All articles in this journal have undergone rigorous peer review, based on initial editor screening and anonymous double-anonymized review.
Journal metrics
Usage
- 346K annual downloads/views
Citation metrics
- 3.6 (2023) Impact Factor
- Q2 Impact Factor Best Quartile
- 3.8 (2023) 5 year IF
- 8.9 (2023) CiteScore (Scopus)
- Q1 CiteScore Best Quartile
- 1.571 (2023) SNIP
- 0.860 (2023) SJR
Speed/acceptance
- 21 days avg. from submission to first decision
- 75 days avg. from submission to first post-review decision
- 13 days avg. from acceptance to online publication
- 13% acceptance rate
Understanding and using journal metrics
Journal metrics can be a useful tool for readers, as well as for authors who are deciding where to submit their next manuscript for publication. However, any one metric only tells a part of the story of a journal’s quality and impact. Each metric has its limitations which means that it should never be considered in isolation, and metrics should be used to support and not replace qualitative review.
We strongly recommend that you always use a number of metrics, alongside other qualitative factors such as a journal’s aims & scope, its readership, and a review of past content published in the journal. In addition, a single article should always be assessed on its own merits and never based on the metrics of the journal it was published in.
For more details, please read the Author Services guide to understanding journal metrics.
Journal metrics in brief
Usage and acceptance rate data above are for the last full calendar year and are updated annually in February. Speed data is updated every six months, based on the prior six months. Citation metrics are updated annually mid-year. Please note that some journals do not display all of the following metrics (find out why).
- Usage: the total number of times articles in the journal were viewed by users of Taylor & Francis Online in the previous calendar year, rounded to the nearest thousand.
Citation Metrics
- Impact Factor*: the average number of citations received by articles published in the journal within a two-year window. Only journals in the Clarivate Science Citation Index Expanded (SCIE), Social Sciences Citation Index (SSCI), Arts and Humanities Citation Index (AHCI) and the Emerging Sources Citation Index (ESCI) have an Impact Factor.
- Impact Factor Best Quartile*: the journal’s highest subject category ranking in the Journal Citation Reports. Q1 = 25% of journals with the highest Impact Factors.
- 5 Year Impact Factor*: the average number of citations received by articles in the journal within a five-year window.
- CiteScore (Scopus)†: the average number of citations received by articles in the journal over a four-year period.
- CiteScore Best Quartile†: the journal’s highest CiteScore ranking in a Scopus subject category. Q1 = 25% of journals with the highest CiteScores.
- SNIP (Source Normalized Impact per Paper): the number of citations per paper in the journal, divided by citation potential in the field.
- SJR (Scimago Journal Rank): Average number of (weighted) citations in one year, divided by the number of articles published in the journal in the previous three years.
Speed/acceptance
- From submission to first decision: the average (median) number of days for a manuscript submitted to the journal to receive a first decision. Based on manuscripts receiving a first decision in the last six months.
- From submission to first post-review decision: the average (median) number of days for a manuscript submitted to the journal to receive a first decision if it is sent out for peer review. Based on manuscripts receiving a post-review first decision in the last six months.
- From acceptance to online publication: the average (median) number of days from acceptance of a manuscript to online publication of the Version of Record. Based on articles published in the last six months.
- Acceptance rate: articles accepted for publication by the journal in the previous calendar year as percentage of all papers receiving a final decision.
For more details on the data above, please read the Author Services guide to understanding journal metrics.
*Copyright: Journal Citation Reports®, Clarivate Analytics
†Copyright: CiteScore™, Scopus
Editorial board
Professor Jacob Kjær Eskildsen - Aarhus University, Denmark
Associate Editors
Professor Jiju Antony - Heriot-Watt University, UK
Professor Bjarne Bergquist - Luleå University of Technology, Sweden
Professor Kwabena G. Boakye - Georgia Southern University, USA
Professor Maria Ciasullo - University of Salerno, Italy
Professor Rick Edgeman - Aarhus University, Denmark
Professor Nigel Grigg - Massey University, New Zealand
Professor Min Xie - City University of Hong Kong, Hong Kong
International Editorial Board
Professor Bo L. S. Bergman - Chalmers University of Technology, Sweden
Professor Dr Ooi Keng-Boon - UCSI University, Malaysia
Professor Alan Brown - Edith Cowan University, Australia
Professor Chi-Kuang Chen - Yuan Ze University, Taiwan
Professor Tugrul U. Daim - Portland State University, USA
Dr Navin S. Dedhia - IBM ADSTAR, San José, California, USA
Professor Rickard Garvare - Luleå University of Technology, Sweden
Professor Thong Ngee Goh - National University of Singapore
Professor Lars Grønholdt - Copenhagen Business School, Denmark
Professor Adam Hamrol - Poznan University of Technology, Poland
Professor Stan Karapetrovic - University of Alberta, Canada
Professor A. Erhan Mergen - Rochester Institute of Technology, USA
Professor John Oakland - University of Leeds, UK
Professor Hiroshi Osada - Tokyo Institute of Technology
Professor Sung H. Park - Seoul National University, Korea
Professor Wan Seon Shin - Sungkyunkwan University, Korea
Dr Madhav N. Sinha - Winnipeg, Canada
Professor Amrik S. Sohal - Monash University, Australia
Professor Ebrahim Soltani - University of Kent, UK
Professor Chao-Ton Su - Tsing Hua University, Taiwan
Professor Yung-Ho Suh - Kyung Hee University, Korea
Professor Xavier Tort-Martorell - ET SEIB (UPC), Spain
Professor Adrian Wilkinson - Griffith University, Australia
Professor Lars Witell - Linköping University, Sweden
Professor Min Xie - City University of Hong Kong, Hong Kong
Professor Shu Yamada - University of Tsukuba, Japan
Professor Mohamed Zairi - European Centre for Best Practice Management, UK
Professor Dr Klaus J. Zink - Technische Universität Kaiserslautern, Germany
Founding Editor
Professor Gopal K. Kanji - Kanji Quality Culture, UK
Abstracting and indexing
Total Quality Management and Business Excellence is indexed/tracked/covered by the following services:
ABI/Inform
Educational Management Abstracts
Educational Research Abstracts Online
Research into Higher Education Abstracts
EBSCO (Business Source Corporate, Business Source Elite, Business Source Premier, Cengage Learning
Corporate Resource Net, Health Business Fulltext, Health Business Fulltext Elite, TOC Premier)
Current Contents - Social & Behavioral Sciences (Clarivate Analytics)
Current Index to Statistics
Educational Research Abstracts
ISI (Social SciSearch,Current Contents: Social & Behavioral Sciences, Research Alerts)
OCLC ArticleFirst Database
OCLC FirstSearch Electronic Collections Online
PIRA International (Management and Marketing)
ProQuest
Scopus (Elsevier)
Social Sciences Citation Index (Clarivate Analytics)
Open access
Total Quality Management & Business Excellence is a hybrid open access journal that is part of our Open Select publishing program, giving you the option to publish open access. Publishing open access means that your article will be free to access online immediately on publication, increasing the visibility, readership, and impact of your research.
Why choose open access?
- Increase the discoverability and readership of your article
- Make an impact and reach new readers, not just those with easy access to a research library
- Freely share your work with anyone, anywhere
- Comply with funding mandates and meet the requirements of your institution, employer or funder
- Rigorous peer review for every open access article
Article Publishing Charges (APC)
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News, offers and calls for papers
16 issues per year
Currently known as:
- Total Quality Management & Business Excellence (2003 - current)
Formerly known as
- Total Quality Management (1990 - 2002)
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