About this journal
Aims and scope
Overview
Aims and Scope
The primary purpose of the
Journal of Small Business Management (JSBM)
is to publish scholarly research articles in the fields of small business management and entrepreneurship. As the official journal of the International Council for Small Business (ICSB), the JSBM is recognized as a primary instrument for projecting and supporting the goals and objectives of this organization, which include scholarly research and the free exchange of ideas. The journal, which is circulated in 60 countries around the world, is a leader in the field of small business research.The following is a list of research topics of interest to JSBM readers:
- Family and Founders Owned Enterprises
- Women and Minority Owned Enterprises
- Small Business Strategy and Organization
- Small Business and Entrepreneurial Marketing
- Franchising and Small Business
- Internationalization and International Entrepreneurship
- Entrepreneurial and Small Business Education
- New Venture Creation and Venture Capital
- Small Business Finance and Accounting
- Small Enterprise Governance and Agency
- Small Business Technology and Innovation
- Small Business Policy, Economics, and Legal Issues
- Small Business Operations and E-Commerce
- Small Business Assistance and Training Programs
- Small Business Leadership and Entrepreneurial Behavior
For more detailed information about the journal, please visit: https://icsb.org/project/jsbm/
Readership
Researchers, academics, and entrepreneurs
Keywords
management, small, business, journal, entrepreneurship, West, Virginia, university, international, council, ICSB, WVU, MBA, accounting, entrepreneur, organization, strategy, technology, marketing, consumer, literature, capital, markets, human, resources, mission, statement, research, family, legal
Abstracting and Indexing Information
- ABI/INFORM Collection (ProQuest)
- Academic ASAP (GALE Cengage)
- Accounting, Tax & Banking Collection (ProQuest)
- Business Abstracts (EBSCO Publishing)
- Business ASAP (GALE Cengage)
- Business Premium Collection (ProQuest)
- CatchWord (Publishing Technology)
- Current Contents: Social & Behavioral Sciences (Clarivate Analytics)
- EBSCO Online (EBSCO Publishing)
- Emerald Management Reviews (Emerald)
- Entrepreneurship Database (ProQuest)
- InfoTrac (GALE Cengage)
- Journal Citation Reports/Social Science Edition (Clarivate Analytics)
- OmniFile Full Text Mega Edition (HW Wilson)
- ProQuest
- Proquest Business Collection (ProQuest)
- ProQuest Central (ProQuest)
- ProQuest Central K-363
- Proquest Pharma Collection (ProQuest)
- ProQuest Politics Collection (ProQuest)
- ProQuest Sociology Collection (ProQuest)
- PsycINFO/Psychological Abstracts (APA)
- Research Library (ProQuest)
- Research Library Prep (ProQuest)
- Social Science Premium Collection (ProQuest)
- Social Sciences Citation Index (Clarivate Analytics)
Journal metrics
Usage
- 329K annual downloads/views
Citation metrics
- 5.3 (2023) Impact Factor
- Q1 Impact Factor Best Quartile
- 5.8 (2023) 5 year IF
- 11.4 (2023) CiteScore (Scopus)
- Q1 CiteScore Best Quartile
- 2.440 (2023) SNIP
- 1.632 (2023) SJR
Speed/acceptance
- 5 days avg. from submission to first decision
- 54 days avg. from submission to first post-review decision
- 30 days avg. from acceptance to online publication
- 5% acceptance rate
Understanding and using journal metrics
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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
Editors-in-Chief
President & CEO,
International Council for Small Business (ICSB)
[email protected]
Eric Liguori, Ph.D
Associate Dean for Research and External Relations
Jim Moran College of Entrepreneurship
Florida State University
[email protected]
Katia Passerini, Ph.D
Interim President,
Seton Hall University
[email protected]
Senior Associate Editor
James Vardaman, University of Memphis, USA
Martie-Louise Verreynne, The University of Queensland, Australia
Please contact the office at: [email protected]
International Council for Small Business (ICSB)
Editor Emeritus
George T. Solomon, D.B.A.School of Business, Dept. of Management
George Washington University, USA
Associate Editors
Lise Aaboen, Norwegian University of Science and Technology, Norway
Mujtaba Ahsan, San Diego State University, USA
Stefano Bonini, Stevens Institute of Technology, USA
Daniel Clark, Ivey Business School, Western University, Canada
Amandeep Dhir, University of Agder, Norway
Ondrej Dvouletý, Prague University of Economics and Business, Czech Republics
Silvia Fernandes Costa, University of Groningen
Antje Fiedler, University of Auckland, New Zealand
Maximilian Goethner, University of Twente, Netherlands
Marko Grunhagen, Eastern Illinois University, USA
Maribel Guerrero, Newcastle Business School, UK
Masatoshi Kato, Kwansei Gakuin University, Japan
Sascha Kraus, Free University of Bozen-Bolzano, Italy
Raj Mahto, University of New Mexico, USA
Laura Marler, Mississippi State University, USA
Diego Matricano, University of Campania, Italy
Ben McLarty, Rowan University, USA
Esra Memili, UNC Greensboro, USA
Hiroyuki Okamuro, Hitotsubashi University, Japan
Annaleena Parhankangas, Iowa State University, USA
Rob Pidduck, Old Dominion University, USA
Panos Piperopoulos, La Trobe University, Australia
Susana Santos, Florida State University, USA
Mark Schenkel, Belmont University, USA
Amon Simba, Nottingham Trent University, UK
Stjepan Srhoj, University of Split, Croatia
Christina Theodoraki, Toulouse Business School, France
Senior Editorial Advisory Board
Herman Aguinis, Ph.D., George Washington University, USA
Melissa Cardon, Ph.D., University of Tennessee, USA
William Jackson, Ph.D., University of Alabama
Norris Krueger, Entrepreneurship Northwest, USA
Tom Lumpkin, Ph.D., University of Oklahoma, USA
Shaker Zahra, Ph.D., University of Minnesota, USA
Open access
Journal of Small Business Management 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.
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- 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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6 issues per year
Associated with:
- Journal of the International Council for Small Business (2020 - current)
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