About this journal
Aims and scope
Aims and scope
Business analytics research focuses on developing new insights and a holistic understanding of an organisation’s business environment to help make timely and accurate decisions to survive, innovate and grow. Thus, business analytics draws on the full spectrum of descriptive/diagnostic, predictive and prescriptive analytics in order to make better (i.e., data-driven and evidence-based) decisions to create value in the broadest sense.
The mission of the Journal of Business Analytics (JBA) is to serve the emerging and rapidly growing community of business analytics academics and practitioners. We aim to publish articles that use real world data and cases to tackle problem situations in a creative and innovative manner.
We solicit articles that address an interesting research problem, collect and/or repurpose data sets, and develop and evaluate analytics methods and methodologies to help organisations apply business analytics in new and novel ways. Reports of research using qualitative or quantitative approaches are welcomed, as are interdisciplinary and mixed methods approaches. The journal also welcomes creative applications of analytics to solve challenging problems, not only in the private sector but also in the public and third sector.
Topics may include:
- Applications of AI and machine learning methods in business analytics
- Network science and social network applications for business
- Social media analytics
- Statistics and econometrics in business analytics
- Use of novel data science techniques in business analytics
- Robotics and autonomous vehicles
- Methods and methodologies for business analytics development and deployment
- Organisational factors in business analytics
- Responsible use of business analytics and AI
- Ethical and social implications of business analytics and AI
- Bias and explainability in analytics and AI
Our editorial philosophy is to publish papers that contribute to theory and practice.
Peer review policy
Once your paper has been assessed for suitability by the editor, it will then be single or double anonymized peer-reviewed by independent, expert referees. You can find out more information on our Instructions for Authors page.
Author Benefits
- JBA is an official journal of the Operational Research Society, meaning your research will be available to all our members globally.
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Journal metrics
Usage
- 73K annual downloads/views
Citation metrics
- 2.5 (2023) CiteScore (Scopus)
- Q2 CiteScore Best Quartile
- 0.688 (2023) SNIP
- 0.420 (2023) SJR
Speed/acceptance
- 15 days avg. from submission to first decision
- 65 days avg. from submission to first post-review decision
- 14% 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
Editors-in-Chief:
Dursun Delen , Oklahoma State University, USA ( email)
Sudha Ram , The University of Arizona, USA ( email)
Richard Vidgen, University of New South Wales, Australia & University of Hull, UK ( email)
Associate Editors
Haldun Aytug, University of Florida, USA
Michael Chau, University of Hong Kong, Hong Kong
Ali Dag, Creighton University, USA
Behrooz Davazdahemami, University of Wisconsin, Whitewater, USA
Amit Deokar, University of Massachusetts-Lowell, USA
Kaushik Dutta, University of South Florida, USA
Frank Emmert-Streib, Tampere University, Finland
Enes Eryarsoy, Sabanci University, Turkey
Benjamin George, University of Toledo, USA
Ashish Gupta, Auburn University, USA
Ciara Heavin, University College Cork, Ireland
Christian Janiesch, TU Dortmund University, Germany
Sam Kirshner, University of New South Wales, Australia
Martin Kunc, University of Southampton, UK
Michael Mortenson, University of Warwick, UK
David Olson, University of Nebraska at Lincoln, USA
Asil Oztekin, University of Massachusetts-Lowell, USA
Balaji Padmanabhan, University of South Florida, USA
Vania Sena, University of Sheffield, UK
Mee Chi So, University of Southampton, UK
Ravi Vatrapu, Toronto Metropolitan University, Canada
Wouter Verbeke, KU Leuven, Belgium
Wei Wei, University of Houston Clear Lake, USA
Amir Hassan Zadeh, Wright State University, USA
Huimin Zhao, University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee, USA
Hamed Majidi Zolbanin, University of Dayton, USA
Editorial Review Board
Hamidreza Ahady Dolatsara, Clark University, USA
John Aloysius, University of Arkansas, USA
Gaurav Anand, Google, Inc., USA
Carlos F.A. Arranz, University of Greenwich, UK
Thilini Ariyachandra, Xavier University, USA
Daniel A. Asamoah, Wright State University, USA
Arafat Salih Aydiner, Medeniyet University, Turkey
Xue Bai, University of Connecticut, USA
Victor Benjamin, Arizona State University, USA
Omer F. Beyca, Istanbul Technical University, Turkey
Elenora Bottani, University of Parma, USA
Cristian Bravo, Western University, Canada
Pratiti Chatterjee, University of New South Wales, Australia
Mary Daly, Cork University, Republic of Ireland
Abdelkader Derbali, Taibah University, Saudi Arabia
Hasan Dincer, Istanbul Medipol University, Turkey
Christian Dremel, University of St. Gallen, Switzerland
Madhav Erraguntla, Texas A&M University, USA
Supavich Fone Pengate, North Dakota State University, USA
Samuel Fosso Wamba, Toulouse Business School, France
Christie Fuller, Boise State University, USA
Yong Ge, University of Arizona, USA
Indranil Ghosh, University of North Carolina Wilmington, USA
Jacomine Grobler, Stellenbosch University, South Africa
Canan Gunes Corlu, Boston University, USA
Akash Gupta, California State University, Northridge, USA
Babita Gupta, California State University, Monterey Bay, USA
Umit Hacioglu, Medipol University, Turkey
Moutaz Haddara, Kristiania University College, Norway
Wu He, Old Dominion University, USA
Jonathan Hersh, Chapman University, USA
Yuheng Hu, University of Illinois Chicago, USA
Noyan Ilk, Florida State University, USA
Marta Indulska, University of Queensland, Australia
Lakshmi S. Iyer, University of North Carolina Greensboro, USA
Siamak Javadi, University of Texas Rio Grande Valley, USA
Dhanya Jothimani, RBC, Canada
Pankush Kalgotra, Auburn University, USA
Mümtaz Karatas, Wright State University, USA
Nihat Kasap, Sabanci University, Turkey
Eyyub Y. Kibis, Montclair State University, USA
Mehmet Serdar Kilinc, Le Moyne College, USA
Ajay Kumar, EMLYON Business School, France
Sudeep Kunhikrishnan, EXL Service, USA
Cemil Kuzey, Murray State University, USA
Gondy Leroy, University of Arizona, USA
Jingjing Li, University of Virginia, USA
Wenwen Li, Fudan University, China
Xin Li, Google, Inc., USA
Bin Liu, West Virginia University, USA
Peter Love, Curtin University, Australia
Phayung Meesad, King Mongkut's University of Technology, Thailand
Patrick Mikalef, Norwegian University of Science and Technology, Norway
Alex Mills, Indiana University, USA
Pratik Mishra, Iowa State University, USA
Abu Saleh Mohammad Mosa, University of Missouri, USA
Kostas Nikolopoulos, Durham University Business School, UK
Nurettin Oner, The University of Alabama at Birmingham, UK
Gautam Pant, University of Iowa, USA
Saeed Piri, University of Oregon, USA
Nalini Prasad, University of New South Wales, Australia
Kanshukan Rajaratnam, University of Cape Town, South Africa
Antonio Rizzi, University of Parma, Italy
Morteza Saberi, University of Technology, Sydney, Australia
Burhaneddin Sandikçi, Istanbul Technical University, Turkey
Yudhvir Seetharam, University of the Witwatersrand, South Africa
Sadi E. Seker, Antalya Bilim University, Turkey
Baha Sen, Ankara Yildirim Beyazit University, Turkey
Ankit Shah, University of South Florida, USA
Masoud Shahmanzari, Istanbul Commerce University, Turkey
Karthik Srinivasan, The University of Kansas, USA
Ankita Srivastava, Bentley University, USA
Panagiotis Stamolampros, University of Leeds, UK
Les Sztandera, Thomas Jefferson University, USA
Raha Akhavan Tabatabaei, Sabanci University, Turkey
Nazim Taskin, Bogazici University, Turkey
Ekrem Tatoglu, Ibn Haldun University, Turkey
Manoj A. Thomas, University of Sydney, Australia
Jingjing Tong, University of North Texas, USA
Kazim Topuz, University of Tulsa, USA
Monica Chiarini Tremblay, The College of William and Mary, USA
Theja Tulabandhula, University of Illinois Chicago, USA
Hasan H. Turan, University of New South Wales, Australia
Serdar Turedi, Purdue University Northwest, USA
Srikar Velichety, University of Memphis, USA
Haibo Wang, Texas A&M International University, USA
Honggang Wang, Cal Poly Pomona, USA
Yun Wang, Microsoft, China
Vincent George Whitelock, Central Michigan University, USA
Zhenning Jimmy Xu,California StateUniversity , Bakersfield, USA
Catherine Yang, University of California, Davis, USA
Yi Yang, Hong Kong University of Science and Technology, Hong Kong
Mehmet Bayram Yildirim, Wichita State University, USA
Selim Zaim, Istanbul Sabahattin Zaim University, Turkey
Daniel Zeng, Chinese Academy of Sciences, China
Ferhat Zengul, University of Alabama at Birmingham, USA
Jingjing Zhang, Indiana University, USA
John Zhang, Arizona State University, USA
Joseph H. Zhang, University of Memphis, USA
Kunpeng Zhang, University of Maryland, USA
Wenli Zhang, Iowa State University, USA
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Australian Business Deans Council (ABDC) Journal Quality List
British Library
CLOCKSS
Crossref
Ei Compendex (Engineering Village)
Emerging Sources Citation Index (ESCI)
Google Scholar
Microsoft Academic
Portico
SCImago
Scopus
Ulrich's Periodicals Directory
Web of Science
Open access
Journal of Business Analytics 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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4 issues per year
Associated with:
- Applied Operations and Analytics (2024 - current)
- Impact (2015 - current)
- Health Systems (2012 - current)
- European Journal of Information Systems (1991 - current)
- Knowledge Management Research & Practice (2003 - current)
- Journal of Simulation (2006 - current)
- Journal of the Operational Research Society (1950 - current)
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