1 Editorial status report
The year 2023 was a remarkable year for the Journal of Management Control. We achieved new record of submission numbers, and increased our geographical spread in the area of management accounting and control. Some key figures summarize this development:
Total submissions: 225.
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Growth submissions since 2019: + 76%.
Days between submission and first decision: 42.
Countries of corresponding authors: 53.
Total reviewers: 253.
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Countries of reviewers: 30.
Total downloads: 243,910.
Growth in downloads since 2019: + 254%.
Journal impact factor (2023): 2.1.
5-year impact factor (2023): 3.0.
CiteScore (2023): 3.6.
The average time between the receipt of the manuscript and the first decision (submission to first decision) is only 42 days and fairly stable over the years. While we aim for a fast decision, we do not want to further drive down this relative low response time for the first decision. That is, we want to encourage and enable reviewers to thoroughly review a paper without too much time pressure, and allow editors to make solid final decisions which are helpful for authors to further develop their papers. The rejection rate is 83% and relatively stable over the years, indicating the high standards of our journal and the rigor in our review processes.
The Journal of Management Control is currently covered by the following abstracting and indexing services:
ABS Academic Journal Quality Guide, ANVUR, Australian Business Deans Council (ABDC) Journal Quality List, BFI List, Baidu, CLOCKSS, CNKI, CNPIEC, Dimensions, EBSCO, Emerging Sources Citation Index, Google Scholar, Naver, OCLC WorldCatDiscovery Service, Portico, ProQuest, Research Papers in Economics (RePEc), SCImago, SCOPUS, TD Net Discovery Service, UGC-CARE List (India), Wanfang.
2 Article requests in 2023
The table below shows the article requests for 2023 of the TOP 5 articles published during the years 2021 – 2023, mostly for open access papers:
Title | Author | Volume | Issue | Year* | Article Requests 2023 |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
A literature review on the impact of digitalisation on management control | Jochen Fähndrich | 34 | 1 | 2023 | 8,831 |
The illusion of data-driven decision making –The mediating effect of digital orientation and controllers’ added value in explaining organizational implications of advanced analytics | Ágnes Szukits | 33 | 3 | 2022 | 5,160 |
Banks’ risk culture and management control systems: A systematic literature review | Jennifer Kunz, Mathias Heitz | 32 | 4 | 2021 | 4,556 |
The use of non-financial performance measures for managerial compensation: evidence from SMEs | Iryna Alves, Sofia M. Lourenço | 33 | 2 | 2022 | 4,491 |
Strategies for data analytics projects in business performance forecasting: a field study | Maël Schnegg, Klaus Möller | 33 | 2 | 2022 | 3,829 |
In spring 2024, we were informed that the Journal of Management Control was upgraded in the recent VHB PMR-rating 2024 of the German Academic Association for Business Research to a B-journal. This adds to the upgradings in 2023 to an A-journal by the Australian Business Deans Council (ABDC) and by the Italian Board of Directors of the Accademia Italiana di Economia Aziendale (AIDEA) that recommended that the Journal of Management Control should be on the list of foreign journals that they deem highly qualified (authoritative) in their respective scientific domains.
We are grateful for the recognition of the Journal of Management Control in these prestigious rankings, and hope that the recognition by these institutions will further increase the circulation of the journal in the scientific community.
3 Thanks to our reviewers
The editors of the Journal of Management Control want to express our gratitude and appreciation for one of the most valuable resources of a journal: our highly skilled reviewers that help to bring papers to their final publication. We are very grateful for the continuous support of so many respected scholars from all around the world. We list all reviewers who finished a review report in the calendar year 2023 below in alphabetical order, and would like to thank them for their excellent services to the journal:
First Name | Last Name | Institution | Country |
|---|---|---|---|
Heba | Abdel-Rahim | The University of Toledo | UNITED STATES |
Paulo | Afonso | University of Minho | PORTUGAL |
Chris | Akroyd | University of Canterbury | NEW ZEALAND |
Bakr | Al-Gamrh | Rennes School of Business | FRANCE |
Roy-Ivar | Andreassen | BI Norwegian Business School | NORWAY |
John | Azure | University of Essex Business School | UNITED KINGDOM |
Kevin | Baird | Macquarie University | AUSTRALIA |
Rúben Silva | Barros | ISCTE-Instituto Universitário de Lisboa | PORTUGAL |
Rainer | Baule | FernUniversität in Hagen | GERMANY |
David | Bedford | University of Technology Sydney | AUSTRALIA |
Lucia | Bellora-Bienengräber | Rijksuniversiteit Groningen | NETHERLANDS |
Hamadou | Boubacar | University of Moncton | CANADA |
Lies | Bouten | IESEG School of Management Lille-Paris | FRANCE |
Enrico | Bracci | University of Ferrara | ITALY |
Evelyn | Braumann | Vrije Universiteit Amsterdam | NETHERLANDS |
Alexander | Brueggen | Maastricht University | NETHERLANDS |
Maria-Giuseppina | Bruna | IPAG Business School Paris | FRANCE |
Michael | Burkert | University of Berne | SWITZERLAND |
Michelle | Carr | University College Cork | IRELAND |
Terhi | Chakhovich | LUT University | FINLAND |
Vincent | Chong | The University of Western Australia | AUSTRALIA |
Mabel D | Costa | Durham University | UNITED KINGDOM |
Chiara | Crovini | Aalborg University | DENMARK |
Nathalie | Crutzen | University of Liege | BELGIUM |
Anne | D' Arcy | Wirtschaftsuniversität Wien | AUSTRIA |
Nicola | Dalla Via | Free University of Bozen-Bolzano | ITALY |
Ivo | De Loo | Nyenrode Business University | NETHERLANDS |
Gianluca | Delfino | Stockholm School of Economics | SWEDEN |
Klaus | Derfuss | Rijksuniversiteit Groningen | NETHERLANDS |
Hrishikesh | Desai | Arkansas State University | UNITED STATES |
Samanthi | Dijkstra-Silva | Technische Universität Dresden | GERMANY |
Behnud Mir | Djawadi | University of Paderborn | GERMANY |
Michael | Dobler | Technische Universität Dresden | GERMANY |
John | Dumay | Macquarie University | AUSTRALIA |
Christoph | Endenich | ESSEC Business School | FRANCE |
Corinna | Ewelt-Knauer | University of Giessen | GERMANY |
Jochen | Fähndrich | University of Stuttgart | GERMANY |
Dennis | Fehrenbacher | University of St. Gallen | SWITZERLAND |
Stefan | Feuerriegel | Ludwig-Maximilians-Universität München | GERMANY |
Sebastian | Firk | Rijksuniversiteit Groningen | NETHERLANDS |
Christian | Friedrich | Technische Universität Darmstadt | GERMANY |
Tracie | Frost | The Hong Kong Polytechnic University | HONG KONG |
Florian | Fuchs | University of Kaiserslautern | GERMANY |
Deborah | Fuhrmann | Technische Universität Dresden | GERMANY |
Robert | Gillenkirch | University of Osnabrück | GERMANY |
Michael | Grüning | Technische Universität Ilmenau | GERMANY |
Benita | Gullkvist | University of Vaasa | FINLAND |
Ahsan | Habib | Massey University | NEW ZEALAND |
Sven | Hartlieb | University of Innsbruck | AUSTRIA |
Ellen | Haustein | University of Rostock | GERMANY |
Michael | Hechter | Arizona State University | UNITED STATES |
Campbell | Heggen | Deakin University | AUSTRALIA |
Xaver | Heinicke | Technische Universität Dresden | GERMANY |
Thomas | Henschel | HTW Berlin University of Applied Sciences | GERMANY |
Martin | Hiebl | University of Linz | AUSTRIA |
Bernhard | Hirsch | Universität der Bundeswehr München | GERMANY |
Reggy | Hooghiemstra | Rijksuniversiteit Groningen | NETHERLANDS |
Sophie | Hoozée | University of Gent | BELGIUM |
Kelly | Hsiao | The University of Waikato | NEW ZEALAND |
Alessandra | Huydts | University of St. Gallen | SWITZERLAND |
Awad | Ibrahim | Portsmouth Business School | UNITED KINGDOM |
Marko | Järvenpää | University of Vaasa | FINLAND |
Janne | Järvinen | University of Oulu | FINLAND |
Muel | Kaptein | Rotterdam School of Management | NETHERLANDS |
Thomas | Kaspereit | University of Luxembourg | LUXEMBOURG |
Lili-Anne | Kihn | Tampere University | FINLAND |
Aleksandra | Klein | Vlerick Business School | BELGIUM |
Thorsten | Knauer | Ruhr University of Bochum | GERMANY |
Valeria | Knels | Technische Universität Dresden | GERMANY |
Tuomas | Korhonen | Tampere University | FINLAND |
Kalle | Kraus | Stockholm School of Economics | SWEDEN |
Thomas | Kristensen | Aarhus University | DENMARK |
Jennifer | Kunz | University of Augsburg | GERMANY |
Sinikka | Lepistö | University of Turku | FINLAND |
Johnny | Lind | Stockholm School of Economics | SWEDEN |
Stefan | Linder | ESSEC Business School | FRANCE |
Volker | Lingnau | Rheinland-Pfälzische Technische Universität Kaiserslautern-Landau | GERMANY |
Ana | Lopes | ISCTE-Instituto Universitário de Lisboa | PORTUGAL |
Ernesto | Lopez-Valeiras | Universidade de Vigo | SPAIN |
Rainer | Lueg | Leuphana University Lüneburg | GERMANY |
Christian | Lukas | Friedrich-Schiller-Universität Jena | GERMANY |
Karen | Maas | Open University | NETHERLANDS |
Stefan | Mayr | University of Linz | AUSTRIA |
Anita | Meidell | Norges Handelshoyskole | NORWAY |
Reinald | Minnaar | Nyenrode Business University | NETHERLANDS |
Agathe | Moriniere | Emlyon Business School | FRANCE |
Kimitaka | Nishitani | Kobe University | JAPAN |
Sebastian | Oelrich | Aarhus University | DENMARK |
Christian | Ott | EM Strasbourg Business School | FRANCE |
Emilio | Passetti | University of Padova | ITALY |
Jukka | Pellinen | University of Jyväskylä | FINLAND |
Paolo | Perego | Free University of Bozen-Bolzano | ITALY |
Arthur | Posch | IMC Fachhochschule Krems | AUSTRIA |
Martin | Quinn | Queens University Belfast | UNITED KINGDOM |
Hari | Ramasubramanian | Frankfurt School of Finance & Management | GERMANY |
Marc Steffen | Rapp | University of Marburg | GERMANY |
Alexandra | Rausch | Alpen-Adria-University Klagenfurt | AUSTRIA |
Evelien | Reusen | Erasmus University Rotterdam | NETHERLANDS |
Robert | Rieg | Aalen University | GERMANY |
Ricardo | Rodrigues | ISEG Lisbon School of Economics and Management | PORTUGAL |
Peter | Roetzel | University of Stuttgart | GERMANY |
Carsten | Rohde | Copenhagen Business School | DENMARK |
Anna | Rohlfing-Bastian | Goethe-Universität Frankfurt am Main | GERMANY |
Daniela | Ruggeri | University of Catania | ITALY |
Remmer | Sassen | Technische Universitaet Dresden | GERMANY |
Utz | Schaeffer | WHU-Otto Beisheim School of Management | GERMANY |
Peter | Schäfer | Technische Universität Dresden | GERMANY |
Ivo | Schedlinsky | University of Bayreuth | GERMANY |
Frank | Schiemann | University of Bamberg | GERMANY |
Maël | Schnegg | University of St. Gallen | SWITZERLAND |
Anja | Schwering | University of Hohenheim | GERMANY |
Christoph | Scope | Technische Universität Dresden | GERMANY |
Elizabeth | Sheedy | Macquarie University | AUSTRALIA |
Bei | Shi | University of Amsterdam | NETHERLANDS |
Vikash Kumar | Sinha | Aalto University School of Business | FINLAND |
Sven | Siverbo | Karlstad University | SWEDEN |
Sergeja | Slapničar | University of Queensland | AUSTRALIA |
Friedrich | Sommer | University of Bayreuth | GERMANY |
Gerhard | Speckbacher | Wirtschaftsuniversität Wien | AUSTRIA |
Sebastian | Stirnkorb | University of Amsterdam | NETHERLANDS |
Erik | Strauss | University of Witten/Herdecke | GERMANY |
Sophia | Su | Macquarie University | AUSTRALIA |
Ann | Tank | Rijksuniversiteit Groningen | NETHERLANDS |
Sandra | Tillema | Rijksuniversiteit Groningen | NETHERLANDS |
Rouven | Trapp | University of Ulm | GERMANY |
Andreas | Ulfsten | NHH Norwegian School of Economics | NORWAY |
Timur | Uman | Jönköping University | SWEDEN |
Marjo | Väisänen | Oulu University | FINLAND |
Alexandra | van den Abbeele | Katholieke Universiteit Leuven | BELGIUM |
Jeroen | van Raak | University of Amsterdam | NETHERLANDS |
Paula | Van Veen-Dirks | Rijksuniversiteit Groningen | NETHERLANDS |
Patrick | Velte | Leuphana University of Lüneburg | GERMANY |
Frank | Verbeeten | Utrecht University | NETHERLANDS |
Ed | Vosselman | Radboud University | NETHERLANDS |
Christian | Walkshäusl | University of Regensburg | GERMANY |
Christine | Weigel | University of Siegen | GERMANY |
Barbara E | Weissenberger | Heinrich-Heine-Universität Dusseldorf | GERMANY |
Paul | Wentges | University of Ulm | GERMANY |
Martin | Wiener | Technische Universität Dresden | GERMANY |
Chaminda | Wijethilake | University of Essex | UNITED KINGDOM |
Andreas | Woempener | University of Duisburg Essen | GERMANY |
Arnt | Wöhrmann | Justus Liebig University of Giessen | GERMANY |
Huaxiang | Yin | Nanyang Technological University | SINGAPORE |
Ramona | Zharfpeykan | The University of Auckland | NEW ZEALAND |
Both the authors and the editors appreciate the tremendous support of our reviewers, their outstanding input in time and their guidance in improving author submissions. The editors of the Journal of Management Control believe that the comments and recommendations given by reviewers contribute strongly to making good papers even better.
4 Best reviewer award 2023
For 2023, the editors of the Journal of Management Control are happy to honour five scholars in particular. They are representative for the above list of reviewers, as they have shown continuous high-quality support of our review processes and have consistently delivered high quality review reports which help the authors to further develop their papers:
Best Reviewer Award 2023: | Chaminda Wijethilake, University of Essex, United Kingdom |
Distinguished Reviewer Award 2023: | Christoph Endenich, ESSEC Business School, France Jennifer Kunz, University of Augsburg, Germany Arthur Posch, IMC Fachhochschule Krems, Austria Anja Schwering, University of Hohenheim, Germany |
Congratulations to our award winners!
5 Special issues
Following the highly successful special issues on ‘Courageous Risk Governance: Enabling Resilience, Autonomy, and New Thinking’ and ‘Experiments, Replications and the Advancement of Management Accounting and Control Research’ that have recently been published, the editorial board decided to initiate more special issues that focus on areas which are currently at the core of management accounting and control research. In the upcoming years, there are three other special issues coming up (listed in order of deadlines) with their own editorial teams (that includes at least one member of the editorial board of the Journal of Management Control):
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The Impact of Digital Technology on Management Accounting and Control;
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Management Control Research on Sustainability;
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Rising Tide of Operational Risks: Management Controls for Better Risk Management.
The special issues attract a high number of submissions (which also results in substantial work load for the special issue editors; we highly appreciate their efforts!). The editorial board is discussing other special issues for the upcoming years, and is open to suggestions from our readers.
6 Closing words
The Journal of Management Control has experienced a remarkable development in the number of paper submissions and download figures since 2019. The editors and the publisher would like to conclude this editorial by expressing our warmest gratitude to all authors, readers, and reviewers of our journal who have contributed to this success. We are looking forward to your submissions and reviews in the years to come!
Utrecht/Dresden, July 2024.
For the team of editors.
Frank Verbeeten.
Thomas W. Guenther.
Managing editors.
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