"The Author Affiliation Index (AAI) as an Assessment of 25 Entrepreneurship Journals, 2007-2011"

Abstract

Although the top tier journals consistently score well on various bibliometric methods, lesser known and newly emergent journals often show greater variance. A key issues resides in the assumptions made in assessing the journals. We provide an analysis of entrepreneurship journal quality based on an emerging method: the Author Affiliation Index (AAI). The AAI assumes that top authors target their work in top tier journals, and hence the quality of a journal can be inferred by the amount of articles which are published by top tier authors. A review of AAI indices across numerous domains exhibit great variance in the boundary conditions they employ. We examine 25 journals through multiple AAI measures (for years 2007-2011), and discern that how international schools and non-academic authors are handled can greatly vary the AAI scores. We find that Strategic Entrepreneurship Journal, Journal of Business Venturing, and Entrepreneurship Theory & Practice all consistently score well, and that journals such as Family Business Review and Journal of Small business Management score well under certain conditions, but less so under others.