The meta-rating aggregates information from established international journal ratings. It focuses on the leading journals in the field of Business Administration.
The following ratings are incorporated into the meta-rating:
- ABDC 2022: Australian Business Deans Council journal ranking
- AJG 2024: British Association of Business Schools Ranking, formerly called the ABS ranking
- CNRS 2020: Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique ranking
- DEN 2021: Danish Ministry ranking
- EJL 2024: Erasmus Research Institute of Management Journals Listing
- FT 2016: Financial Times 50 Ranking
- SCIMAGO Citation Score 2026
- UT Dallas List
- VHB 2024: integrated version of the 18 area rankings from the German Academic Association for Business Research
We deliberately employ a simple and robust aggregation methodology. To ensure full transparency, we describe it in detail under the corresponding menu item. It follows the same approach as the 2023 Meta-Rating.
The evaluation of journals is based on a straightforward logic. Each of the nine ratings is treated as a tournament in which all journals are compared pairwise. Points are awarded in every comparison. We use only ordinal information: if Journal X is ranked higher than Journal Y, Journal X receives two points. If both journals are placed in the same category, Journal X receives one point. If Journal X is ranked lower than Journal Y, it receives no points. The points are then summed across all comparisons for each journal. Averaging these scores across all journals and all tournaments yields the overall result.
The meta-rating consolidates information from the existing ratings. As a result, measurement errors inherent in individual ratings tend to offset one another. The meta-rating therefore provides a more robust assessment and reflects the collective judgment of the international scientific community.