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| Discipline | International business,management |
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| Language | English |
| Edited by | Rosalie L. Tung |
| Publication details | |
| History | 1970–present |
| Publisher | |
| Frequency | 9/year |
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| 9.0 (2024) | |
| Standard abbreviations ISO 4 (alt) · Bluebook (alt) NLM (alt) · MathSciNet (alt  ) | |
| ISO 4 | J. Int. Bus. Stud. |
| Indexing CODEN (alt · alt2) · JSTOR (alt) · LCCN (alt) MIAR · NLM (alt) · Scopus · W&L | |
| ISSN | 0047-2506 (print) 1478-6990 (web) |
| LCCN | 98657338 |
| JSTOR | 00472506 |
| OCLC no. | 1604487 |
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TheJournal of International Business Studies is adouble blindpeer-reviewedacademic journal published byPalgrave Macmillan on behalf of theAcademy of International Business covering research oninternational business.
The journal was established in 1970 and has become the highest ranked academic journal in the field ofinternational business. For example, the journal holds the highest possible 4* ‘World Elite’ rating in the UK's Association of Business Schools’ Academic Journal Guide 2024[1] and the highest possible A* rating in Australia's ABDC Journal Quality List 2025.[2]
The currenteditor-in-chief is Rosalie L. Tung (Simon Fraser University).
The following persons are or have been editors-in-chief:
The "JIBS Decade Award" was established in 1996 to recognize the most influential paper published in the volume a decade prior. The award is sponsored by Palgrave Macmillan. A selection committee evaluates the five most cited papers of the year and decides on the most influential paper. A special session is held at the Academy's annual conference including a presentation from the award winner and additional commentary. In 2009, the Decade Award was extended to include the 1970–1985 volumes of the journal.[3]
The journal is abstracted and indexed in:
According to theJournal Citation Reports, the journal has a 2024impact factor of 9.0.[8]
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