The Journal of Management and Business Research proudly received the “Knowledge Communication Award” and the “Knowledge Influence Award”, honored by the National Central Library in the “2019 Taiwan Academic Resource Influence Press Conference”. Pr. Yue-Shan Chang, the publishing advisor of this journal, attended the “Press Conference and Award Ceremony of Resource with the Most Academic Influence in Taiwan”, held by the National Central Library and guided by the Ministry of Education, in the Friday morning of Mar. 29th, 2019. A total of 148 journal publishers, both public and private universities nationwide, along with more than 150 distinguished guests participated in this special event.

 

The Journal of Management and Business Research was the only journal in the field of management of TSSCI (Taiwan Social Sciences Citation Index) that won both “Knowledge Communication Award” and the “Knowledge Influence Award”, honored by the National Central Library in the “2019 Taiwan Academic Resource Influence Press Conference”.

 

Taiwan Citation Index-Humanities and Social Science (TCI-HSS or TCI database for short), established by the National Central Library, features the publications by Taiwanese scholars and researchers. So far the database has compiled journal publications dating back to nearly 30 years for the citation of journal literature reference (aka the citation). The observation result of the research dynamics and tendency of the field of humanities and social science in Taiwan by using the statistics of the database shall have high reliability.

 

The “Knowledge Communication Award” is granted to the top five awardees which have the most times cited by other journal papers, PhD theses, books and book articles within 30 years among 18 types of fields (including generalities), based on the Chinese journals published in Taiwan in the TCI database. The source information of the statistics spans a long period of time, representing the long-term and vast contribution in communication.

 

The “Knowledge Influence Award” is granted to the top five awardees based on the “five-year impact factor of 2018” among 18 types of fields of the Chinese journals published in Taiwan. It looked at the citation times of publications within five years, representing the instant influence.

 

According to the analysis report of academic communication and influence of Taiwanese journal on humanities and social science, done by the National Central Library, receiving two awards at the same time suggests that those publications have both long-term and instant influence, and thus such publications can be regarded as classic.

 

The Editorial Room appreciates the acclamation and recognition toward this The Journal of Management and Business Research. This journal will continue the hard work and keep on improving.