2018 open access highlights in Business

                                                                                                                                                              _{↑ Up to the main page}

Business, Management and Law open access highlights 

We're taking a look back and to reflect on some of the most popular Business, Mangement and Law research, to inspire us as we begin the new year. 

We invite Erica Gordon-Mallin from our editorial team, to share her experience in the field. 

Read and share our key articles and journals - our research is fully open access, and are freely available online on a permanent basis to a wide global audience. 

In 2018, our fully open access journals in Business, Management, and Law continued to flourish—and to find their readerships—in a spectrum of different ways. 

Some exciting milestones:

• The Journal of Shipping and Trade’s January article on the mediating role of seaborne trade became the journal’s most highly accessed publication of all time.
• The Journal of Organization Design went from strength to strength. Throughout 2018, submission numbers and selectivity rose; guidelines for authors became more explicit (ever wondered what an Organization Zoo is?), and the journal reflected on its evolution with characteristic erudition.
• All year long, the International Journal of Corporate Social Responsibility published one important read after another. For instance, what are the meanings and consequences of social responsibility in Bolivia? What does a study of CEO letters to stakeholders reveal? And how do “socially responsible” consumers decide where to shop? The Journal explores all this and more.
• Business Research, going strong since 2008, published interesting fare like this piece on corporate reputation. And in June, it was accepted to Scopus, the world’s largest abstract and citation database of peer-reviewed literature.
• The Journal of Innovation and Entrepreneurship has long been wildly well-read (for instance, these two articles on SMEs and growth each boast 70K+ downloads). September marked another accomplishment: Scopus acceptance. 
• Also in September, the International Journal of Quality Innovation kicked off its Special Collection on Medical Tourism with a thought-provoking article on how patients (or should we call them consumers, or tourists?) make decisions.
• More good news came in October when the well-cited Journal of Statistical Distributions and Applications was accepted to Scopus.
• The Journal of International Humanitarian Action, covering International Humanitarian Law, published a plethora of interdisciplinary, highly relevant, and often beautifully written papers. Press coverage in January and November amplified the journal’s impact.

Scholarly research in Business, Management, and Law delivers evidence-based insights which can be applied in practice. We’re proud to make these journals accessible to anyone with an internet connection. Here’s to continued growth and heightened impact for this group of journals—in 2019 and beyond.

Erica Gordon-Mallin is the Journal Development Editor for SpringerOpen/BMC Business & Law open access journals.