Getting Published in Highly Ranked Journals: The (Bumpy) Road to (Possible) Success

Seminar abstract

While most business and management academics appreciate the importance of getting published in top journals, relatively few actually manage to do so and even fewer manage to do it repeatedly over time. Even in instances where an author has managed to “get a foot in the door” (i.e. received an R & R decision), the final outcome is often negative.

Although several factors are responsible for such “failures”, a key reason seems to be lack of sufficient understanding of how such journals actually “tick” and how to effectively deal with a highly demanding review process.

Drawing on 35+ years of personal experience as an author, editor, editorial review board member and reviewer, this presentation seeks to offer some insights into;

• (a) the context within which a review of a submitted paper typically takes place,
• (b) the nature and demands of the reviewing process,
• (c) things to do (or not to do) to maximize the chances of a successful outcome.

The talk is particularly targeted to young scholars and doctoral students interested in an academic career but also to more experienced researchers seeking to strengthen their publication portfolio and enhance their visibility and reputation.

How to join this seminar

This seminar is free to attend with no need to register in advance.

Please join us online on Wednesday 18 May 2022 at 12.30pm

We welcome you to share this seminar with your friends, colleagues and classmates.

Speaker bio

Professor Adamantios Diamantopoulos holds the Chair of International Marketing and is Head of the Department of Marketing and International Business at the University of Vienna, Austria. He is also Visiting Research Professor at the University of Ljubljana, Slovenia and Senior Fellow at the Dr. Theo and Friedl Schoeller Research Center for Business & Society, Nuremburg, Germany. During the academic year 2012/13, he was the “Joseph A. Schumpeter Fellow” at Harvard University, USA.
Previous academic appointments include full-time professorships at the University of Wales and Loughborough University in the UK as well as visiting professorships in France, Germany, Greece, Sweden, Spain, UK, and USA.

His main research interests are in international marketing and research methodology, and he is the author of over 200 publications in these areas with over 45,000 citations (Google Scholar, March 2022). His work has appeared, among others, in the Journal of Marketing Research, Journal of International Business Studies, Journal of the Academy of Marketing Science, International Journal of Research in Marketing, Journal of Service Research, Journal of International Marketing, Journal of Retailing, MIS Quarterly, Organizational Research Methods, Psychological Methods, Information Systems Research, British Journal of Management, and Journal of Business Research (for full publications list, https://international-marketing.univie.ac.at/research/publications/).

He is ranked #8 worldwide in terms of citations among a total of 11,636 scholars in the marketing discipline (Elsevier BV - Stanford University study, October 2021). He is also ranked #1 in Austria and #94 worldwide in the 2022 Ranking of Top 1000 Scientists in the field of Business and Management (Research.com, 2022). Furthermore, he ranks #4 worldwide based on publications in the top six international business journals during 1995-2015 and is the most prolific contributor to Journal of International Marketing both in terms of published articles and in terms of citations. In 2018, he was identified by Clarivate Analytics as one of the most cited researchers worldwide (top 1% across all disciplines).

He has been the recipient of several Best Paper Awards, including the 2013 Hans B. Thorelli Award for the article published in Journal of International Marketing that has made the most significant and long-term contribution to international marketing theory or practice. He sits on the Editorial Review Boards of several academic journals, and acts as a referee for various professional associations and funding bodies. He is a Fellow of the British Academy of Management and the European Marketing Academy and a JIBS Silver Medal holder. In 2021 he received the Significant Contributions to Global Marketing Award by the American Marketing Association.
He has taught a variety of courses on marketing, research methods, and statistical analysis at 20+ university institutions in the UK, France, Belgium, Germany, Austria, Spain, Sweden, Switzerland, Slovenia, Greece, Bosnia & Herzegovina, Lithuania, Poland, Thailand, Canada, and the USA.