Editorial

摘要

Welcome to Volume 20, Issue 4 of the Journal of Management History (JMH). With this issue, we have completed our 20th year of publishing and are now indexed by Scopus. Our 20th anniversary issue shall be the next issue, as we will have just finished our 20th year of publishing. While I write this, I am getting ready to do a TED talk in a few hours and am prepping for a graduate class in international organizational behavior and change dealing with transformational change. I am reminded of the belief that change takes a long time - which is actually not a true statement. We as academics need to remember that with good knowledge and education organizational, individual change CAN be nearly instantaneous. Turning a change in to a habit can take some time. Conventional wisdom seems to be that it takes 21 days to turn a change in to a habit, but some of my own research indicates that it often takes from 56 to ＞ 100 days. With the last issue we had 2,949 citations to JMH papers, and now we are at ＞ 3,000 at 3,236 - an increase of 287. Our h index has changed from 23 to 24, and our g index has moved from 38 to 39. We currently have an Age-Weighted Citation Rate of 386.94. At the beginning of volume 20, we had an acceptance rate of 17.1 per cent. Right now we are at a 9.3 per cent acceptance rate based upon papers with final decisions - which counts editorials -and 7.2 per cent based upon competitive papers. We have seen a large increase in submissions since the journal was reclassified as an A level journal by the Australian Business Dean's Council. We have had 280 submissions in the past 12 months, with ＞ 200 of them being in the past six months. By the next issue, we should hopefully have heard about our possible re-ranking in the UK journal quality list.