Apologies for cross-postings....
2010 journal impact factors have been released by Journal Citation Reports (Thompson Reuters -- formerly ISI Web of Science). Business Ethics Quarterly scored an impact factor of 3.256 on the 2-year measure (the measure most commonly discussed), and 2.085 on the 5-year impact measure. Its 2-year impact factor with self-citations removed (i.e., cites from BEQ to BEQ removed) is 1.462. (JCR does not publish a 5-year self-citations removed score.)
FYI, as editor it's the "self-citations removed" score that usually interests me the most, because it gives a clue as to how much a specialty journal like BEQ is getting cited outside its own relatively small world of specialist scholars. (It also controls for some of the citation-inflating practices that some journals might use, such as telling authors of submissions to cite the submitted-to journal frequently, or publishing lengthy editor's comments that cite the journal often.) On the other hand, I suspect that the "self-citations removed" measure penalizes speciality journals that cannot be expected to have the wide reach of a more topically broad-ranging journal (such as AMR in management or Philosophy & Public Affairs in philosophy--although this year BEQ surpassed PPA on the 2 year score, though not on the 5 year score). (One needs to read down through the details of a Journal Citation Reports listing to find the "self-citations removed" score for a particular journal; it's not in the summary listing of impact factors that's most obvious in JCR. And if you're interested, Wikipedia has a decent enough summary of the limitations, criticisms and corruptions of impact factors in its short article titled "impact factor.")
Gary Weaver
Editor in Chief
Business Ethics Quarterly
BEQ@udel.edu _______________________________________________________________________
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