Abstract
The Journal of Management Control has reached a further milestone within its strategy to influence academic research in management control. In the new journal ranking VHB-Jourqual 3.0 of the German Academic Association for Business Research (Verband der Hochschullehrer fur Betriebswirtschaft VHB) the Journal of Management Control was upgraded to C. In total, 194 academic scholars voted for the journal, and 72.2 % expressed that the rating is C or better, whereby even one quarter voted for a rating of B.We are proud of this judgement of our German colleagues, which confirms our strategy to internationalize our journal and to focus onmanagement control topics. The development of our journal would not be possiblewithout the great engagement and motivation of our editors, the high committment of our supportive international editorial board members and the great support of so many highly engaged and knowledgeable scholars as reviewers for our journal. Thank you so much to all partners for your great support for the Journal of Management Control. In 2014, submissions to JoMaC came from 16 different countries all around the world and reviewers covered 13 different countries of origin. Our journal is now available in more than 8400 institutions all around the world. Fulltext downloads are constantly growing year by year and amout tomore than 25,000 fulltext article requests in 2013. Those downloads cover all regions over the world. Thus, our authors can be sure that their work is presented to a large global and growing scientific community. Average turnaround time between reception of the submission and first decision was 85 days, which is below three months in average. The average time span between submission and online first publication was 256 days. The final acceptance rate for submissions reviewed in 2014 was 25.8 %. These figures signal our endeavour to publish on the one hand excellent papers and to ensure on the other hand at the same
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