Academic publisher Emerald Group Publishing, UK, has announced that its abstracting service, Emerald Management Reviews, is holding a double 50 celebration this month – recognising the 50th anniversary of its launch and the 50 winners of its Annual Citations of Excellence Awards.
First launched in 1961 as 'Anbar Abstracts', Emerald Management Reviews has 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.
Alongside the anniversary celebrations, the winners of Emerald Management Reviews Citation of Excellence Awards are also celebrating. Now in their fifteenth year, these distinguished annual awards recognise the 50 most outstanding articles published by the top 300 management journals in the world. With 15,000 reviews added to the Emerald Management Reviews database annually, receiving a Citation of Excellence is an extraordinary achievement and represents one of the highest accolades that an author can achieve.
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's Publish or Perish software, and research 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
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