Citation-Based Journal Rankings for AI Research

Abstract

■A significant and growing area of business-com-puting research is concerned with AI. Knowledgeabout which journals are the most influential fo-rums for disseminating AI research is importantfor business school faculty, students, administra-tors, and librarians. To date, there has been onlyone study attempting to rank AI journals from abusiness-computing perspective. It used a subjec-tive methodology, surveying opinions of businessfaculty about a prespecified list of 30 journals.Here, we report the results of a more objectivestudy. We conducted a citation analysis coveringa time period of 5 years to compile 15,600 cita-tions to 1,244 different journals. Based on thesedata, the journals are ranked in two ways involv-ing the magnitude and the duration of scientificimpact each has had in the field of AI.