The changing landscape of technology and innovation management: An updated ranking of journals in the field

This paper presents an up-to-date ranking of the leading technology and innovation management (TIM) specialty journals. Citation data from the years 2006–2010 of the fifteen base journals are collected and analyzed. Based on the total citation score, frequency adjusted score, age adjusted score, self-citation adjusted score, and overall adjusted score, the new top 50 journals list for TIM is offered. Compared with the results from the earlier period, no statistically significant change is detected in the top half of the list; however, a significant number of well-regarded journals that did not appear in the 1997–2001 period have surfaced in the bottom half of the list. Overall, the top ten journals of this latest ranking are Research Policy, Strategic Management Journal, Journal of Product Innovation Management, Management Science, Academy of Management Journal, Harvard Business Review, Academy of Management Review, Research-Technology Management, Organization Science, and Technovation. The ranking order of the top ten TIM specialty journals is as follows: Research Policy, Journal of Product Innovation Management, Research-Technology Management, Technovation, R&D Management, Industrial and Corporate Change, IEEE Transactions on Engineering Management, Journal of Technology Transfer, Technological Forecasting and Social Change, and Journal of Engineering and Technology Management. A fresh perspective on how TIM specialty journals relate to each other and how they link to business, economics, and management disciplines is provided. A detailed discussion of these findings, together with concluding remarks, also helps answer the question “Do things change or remain the same?”