Emerald Management Reviews celebrates 50 years with 50 winners

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United Kingdom, November 2011 -Emerald Management Reviews, Emerald Group Publishing’s prestigious abstracting service, is holding a double 50 celebration this month – recognizing the 50th anniversary of its launch and the 50 winners of its Annual Citations of Excellence Awards.

First launched in 1961 as ‘Anbar Abstracts’ (named after the founder’s daughters, Ann and Barbara),Emerald Management Reviewshas a long and illustrious history. It was the first abstracting and indexing service in the UK, and, in 1988, became one of the first searchable electronic databases being produced on the old 5¼ -inch floppy disks. In 1997 it became available online for the first time.  The late industrialist Sir John-Harvey Jones once stated: “I rely almost entirely onEmerald Management Reviewsto ensure that I do not miss developments or thinking – I commend them to any busy person who is interested in management”.

Alongside the anniversary celebrations, the winners ofEmerald Management ReviewsCitation of Excellence Awards are also celebrating.  Now in their fifteenth year, these distinguished annual awards recognize the 50 most outstanding articles published by the top 300 management journals in the world.  With 15,000 reviews added to theEmerald Management Reviewsdatabase annually, receiving a Citation of Excellence is an extraordinary achievement and represents one of the highest accolades that an author can achieve. 

And this year, to reflect the changing perceptions and assessment of quality in the publishing world, Emerald adopted a new approach to selecting the winners of these prestigious awards. 

Working with Professor Anne-Wil Harzing, a recognized authority on journal quality and citation metrics, Emerald used a two-tier system based on citations from Harzing’sPublish or Perishsoftware, and research impact.  Professor Harzing comments, “I was happy Emerald chose to use Publish or Perish to make their first selection for the Citation of Excellence Awards. Publish or Perish is based on Google Scholar data, which provide a more comprehensive assessment of research impact than traditional sources for citation data such as ISI and Scopus. As a result it better reflects Emerald's mission to publish work with a broader societal impact.”

A full list of the 2011 winners, as well as lists of previous winners, is available at:

http://www.emeraldinsight.com/tk/citation_of_excellence

For more information about Emerald Management Reviews or the Citation of Excellence Awards selection process, visithttp://www.emeraldinsight.com/products/reviews/index.htm  or contact Debbie Spurgeon, Executive Editor, atdspurgeon@emeraldinsight.com

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About Emerald Management Reviews

Emerald Management Reviewsis a vast database of 290,000 mostly independently written reviews of articles from the top 300 management publications worldwide, as selected by an independent accreditation board of industry experts. Publications on theEmerald Management ReviewsCoverage List include, for example,Harvard Business Review,Journal of Marketing,Journal of Finance,Strategic Management Journal,MIT Sloan Management Review, andMcKinsey Quarterly.

About Emerald

www.emeraldinsight.com

With over forty years' experience, Emerald Group Publishing is a leading independent publisher of global research with impact in business, society, public policy and education. In total, Emerald publishes over 770 titles, comprising 275 journals, over 375 books and more than 120 book series as well as an extensive range of online products and services. Emerald is both COUNTER 3 and TRANSFER compliant. The organization is a partner of the Committee on Publication Ethics (COPE) and also works with Portico and the LOCKSS initiative for digital archive preservation.

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Emerald Group Publishing Limited
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Email:apelle@emeraldinsight.com

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