Journal of Management Education

Journal of Management Education

2006 Publisher’s Report

Presented June 2006

Table of Contents

2006 Goals for JME

Readership

JME Subscription Update

JME via SAGE Journals Online

SAGE Journals Online

How Usage Reports Will Benefit You

Online Usage Reports

Top 10 Downloaded Articles January 2005 – May 2006 (SAGE Journals Online)

Other Features of SAGE Journals Online

Management and Organization Studies: A SAGE Full-Text Collection

Top Institutional and Intermediary Users

Marketing Update

2006 Marketing Plans

2006 Marketing Promotions

Conferences

Indexing/Abstracting Services

2005 Marketing Review

2005 Marketing Promotions

Who's Who at SAGE for JME

2006 Goals for JME...... 2

Readership...... 5

JME Subscription Update...... 5

JME via SAGE Journals Online...... 6

SAGE Journals Online...... 6

How Usage Reports Will Benefit You...... 6

Online Usage Reports...... 7

Top 10 Downloaded Articles January 2005 – May 2006 (SAGE Journals Online)...... 8

Other Features of SAGE Journals Online...... 9

Management and Organization Studies: A SAGE Full-Text Collection...... 10

Top Institutional and Intermediary Users...... 10

Marketing Update...... 11

2006 Marketing Plans...... 11

2006 Marketing Promotions...... 11

Conferences...... 13

Indexing/Abstracting Services...... 14

2005 Marketing Review...... 15

2005 Marketing Promotions...... 15

Who's Who at SAGE for JME...... 17

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2006 Goals for JME

1. Secure Acceptance to Thomson Scientific Journal Citation Reports® (formerly ISI)

JME is currently eligible for reevaluation by Thomson Scientific Journal Citation Reports® for acceptance in their database. Upon acceptance the JME will have an impact factor by 2008. To improve JME’s chances for acceptance you can continue to use, cite, assign, write for, and review for JME. The more JME is used and cited over the rest of 2006, the better its chances for acceptance.

Should JME be accepted into Thomson Scientific Journal Citation Reports®, the goals below will help increase its impact factor. Should JME not be accepted, these goals will improve its chances of acceptance the next time we apply.

2. Build a Rich Backlog of Quality Articles

To ensure the long-term viability and quality of JME, as well as to position the journal as the premier research outlet in management education, we need to continue focusing on increasing the backlog of quality articles. This year the JME editorial office completed the rollout of the bepress© electronic peer review system, which will boost the number of solicited and unsolicited manuscript submissions per year. Bepress© makes it easier for authors to submit papers to the journal and reduces the editorial office’s time from submission to decision. These make the journal even more “author friendly” than it already was, and will help attract more, higher quality papers.

Increase unsolicited manuscript submissions:

Run “Call for Papers” in the print journal
Post “Call for Papers” on the journal website
Encourage Editorial Board members to promote the journal at conferences

(SAGE will supply simple promotional flyers and extra journal copies to Editorial Board members when requested)

Increase solicited manuscript submissions:

Plan a special issue of solicited manuscripts to help build backlog of unsolicited manuscripts
Encourage Editorial Board members to recruit authors at conferences (i.e., review conference proceedings and recruit potential authors)

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3. Maintaining an Active Editorial Board

In general, nothing is more important to the viability of a journal than an active editorial board. Without this, we are working at a disadvantage, and promotional efforts can lose their effectiveness. Editorial Board members are the eyes and ears of the journal. Here are some of the ways Editorial Board members can be most effective:

Strategic Support

Participate in Editorial Board meetings to assist the Editor with journal development and planning

Recruitment

Inform the Editor of late-breaking research, events, or potential papers for recruitment
Recruit potential papers at conferences, display posters or research thesis presentations

Promotion

Refer to the journal whenever possible, such as in professional discussions, presentations, and press releases.
Identify local, regional, and national conferences that might be good opportunities for promoting the journal or recruiting papers and notify the publisher about them. Your marketing manager, Stephanie Trkay, will be happy to supply you and editorial board members with promotional materials and journal sample issues to take to conferences.
Encourage your institution and those of your professional colleagues to subscribe to the journal.

Manuscript Development

Help contributors bring their concept to a final article. This includes consultation, assistance with writing or accessing resources, and/or general editorial supervision.
Review manuscripts for the journal.
Identify and recruit other reviewers and authors for the journal.

Increase Usage

Assign JME articles for course reading
Cite JME articles in upcoming papers
When reviewing articles for JME or other journals suggest relevant JME articles for references.

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4. Useful Online Features for Authors

JME and many other related journals are available online through SAGE Journals Online (
which offers author-friendly features such as customizable Contents Alerts and CiteTrack Alerts. Contents Alerts allow you to receive forthcoming tables of contents to your favorite SAGE journals. CiteTrack Alerts send you e-mails every time new articles match your specified keyword or author criteria. Sign up for these free services today!

Author Citation Alerts

SAGE authors and online subscribers can sign up to receive an email notification when an article of interest has been cited in any of the journals throughout SAGE Journals Online or the HighWire Press platform. These notifications give us a congratulatory reason to contact and support our authors. To begin tracking citations:

Manage your Contents Alerts and CiteTrack Alerts:

Cadmus ArticleWorks

SAGE partnered with Cadmus in late 2005 to provide our authors with ArticleWorks’s content on-demand delivery system. As part of SAGE’s “author care” system, each lead author is sent an email providing valuable information about their published article, as well as providing access to electronic reprints (e-prints). Usage is shown via click-throughs and purchases via this system.

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Readership

JME Subscription Update

Institutions

Between 2004 and 2005, JME has maintained a 97% retention rate among institutional subscribers, with a current subscriber base of 349 (JME had 359 institutions at the end of 2004). This is a great achievement when considering that the current industry-wide attrition rate is around 6%. Further, in the past 7 months we have seen consistent global institutional growth for JME via its inclusion in the SAGE Management and Organization Full-Text Collection.

Specifically, through 2005 forty-one SAGE Management and Organization Collections have been sold to various academic consortia, including the California Digital Library (represents 11 institutions), OCUL (Ontario Council of University Libraries--which includes the University of Toronto's vast network; represents 20 institutions), CREPUQ (represents 4 institutions in Quebec), University of Phoenix (nationwide access; represents about 163 institutions), as well as several solo universities such as the University of Sydney and Griffith University, both in Australia. Overall, JME is now available in 660 institutions worldwide!

Individuals

In the first half of 2005, JME has seen its non-member individual subscribers decrease slightly from 118 at the end of 2004 to 100 year to date, a retention rate of 84%.While SAGE conducts renewal campaigns to encourage these lapsed individuals to renew, we have decided to focus our marketing efforts on maximizing institutional subscriptions and driving up online usage, since these two factors play a significantly larger role in keeping JME financially healthy.

Subscription Type / 2003 / 2004 / 2005 / 2004- 2005 % change
Individual / 152 / 118 / 100 / 15.3% Decrease
Member / 390 / 396 / 372 / 6.1% Decrease
Total Individual Subscriptions / 542 / 514 / 472 / 8.2% Decrease
Institutional – Traditional* / 365 / 359 / 349 / 2.8% Decrease
Direct Collection Sales / 0 / 14 / 41 / 192.9% Increase
Collection Sales through Consortia / 0 / 163 / 270 / 65.6% Increase
Total Institutional Subscriptions / 365 / 536 / 660 / 23.1% Increase
Total Subscriptions / 907 / 1050 / 1132 / 7.9% Increase

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JME via SAGE Journals Online

SAGE Journals Online

SAGE Journals Online provides sophisticated usage reporting to help track the use of the journal. The following tables show the usage statistics for JME via SAGE Journals Online.

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How Usage Reports Will Benefit You

One major advantage of SAGE Journals Online is that our editorial and marketing departments have access to detailed usage reports which we can provide to you as you chart a future course for JME. Our marketing department monitors these reports to keep an eye out for trends that may be of value to you, such as numerous downloads on a particular article, widespread interest in general topics or sub-disciplines, and heavy citation activity on particular articles.

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Online Usage Reports

SAGE Journals Online provides sophisticated usage reports to help track the use of the JME. The following tables show the usage statistics for JMEvia SAGE Journals Online. During the month of October 2005 we promoted an open access period for all SAGE journals. The chart below illustrates the increase in usage during the campaign.

Home Page / Current
Issue TOC / All
TOCS / Searches / Abstracts / PDFs
January 2005 / 1,086 / 222 / 332 / 844 / 2,289 / 1,173
February 2005 / 1,223 / 187 / 383 / 851 / 2,820 / 1,384
March 2005 / 1,221 / 203 / 376 / 943 / 2,978 / 1,706
April 2005 / 1,084 / 220 / 398 / 868 / 2,363 / 1,590
May 2005 / 1,159 / 208 / 390 / 1,014 / 2,319 / 1,857
June 2005 / 1,067 / 196 / 432 / 731 / 2,355 / 1,450
July 2005 / 1,129 / 187 / 423 / 641 / 2,571 / 1,272
August 2005 / 1,233 / 232 / 696 / 699 / 2,938 / 1,459
September 2005 / 1,575 / 271 / 525 / 1,150 / 2,662 / 2,499
October 2005 / 1,761 / 257 / 893 / 960 / 4,484 / 2,285
November 2005 / 1,498 / 261 / 622 / 801 / 4,275 / 1,221
December 2005 / 1,183 / 179 / 394 / 862 / 1,930 / 2,950
Total Access 2005 / 15,219 / 2,623 / 5,864 / 10,364 / 33,984 / 20,846

Average Full-Text PDF downloads during 2005 across SAGE Journals Online platform: 37,909

Median Full-Text PDF downloads during 2005 across SAGE Journals Online platform: 21,002

Home Page / Current
Issue TOC / All
TOCS / Searches / Abstracts / PDFs
January 2006 / 1,482 / 252 / 467 / 1,007 / 3,298 / 1,736
February 2006 / 1,623 / 282 / 562 / 860 / 3,470 / 1,694
March 2006 / 2,109 / 341 / 575 / 1,468 / 3,708 / 2,043
April 2006 / 1,775 / 288 / 505 / 1,097 / 3,336 / 1,588
YTD Access 2006 / 6,989 / 1,163 / 2,109 / 4,432 / 13,812 / 7,061

A major goal for 2006 is to push usage of the online version of JME, which is quickly becoming one of the criteria for librarians to retain a publication within their library’s collection. Librarians monitor how often a journal is accessed when they make their renewal decisions. JME’s editorial team can use online statistics to review citations, successful authors, emerging topics, and declining subject areas.

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Other Features of SAGE Journals Online

SAGE Contents Alert

To bolster both retention and growth of subscribers as well as increase online usage, we continue to promote the JME Email Alerts service. Through this service, the tables of contents for each issue are sent via email to registrants before the publication is available in print. We are pleased to report that the number of registrants continues to increase with each report. JME currently has 592 individuals registered for this service. This is an increase of 57% from May 2005.

This year, we are aiming to significantly increase the number of users of the Journal Email Alerts service. In early February, SAGE initiated an incentive campaign to entice people to register. We are giving away one iPod® music player (valued at $300) each month. New registrants in the US and UK are eligible to win. We are heavily promoting this contest and have implemented the following marketing efforts:

Distributed postcard promotions to 40,000+ SAGE customers
Deployed email campaigns to 36,000+ SAGE customers
Inserted promotional flyers in book and journal shipments
Featured the promotion on all brochures and email campaigns
Placed banner advertisements on SAGE Journals Online

To register, one need only access the JME web site at and click on “Email Alerts.”

Online Sample Copy

A sample copy of JMEis accessible through the journal homepage at This feature provides potential subscribers and authors an opportunity to review the contents and format of the journal.

Online Library Recommendation Form

Faculty and administration recommendations to librarians are vital to increasing the institutional subscriber base. SAGE has placed a Library Recommendation Form on the JME homepage located on the SAGE website.

SAGE RSS (Rich Site Summary)

SAGE has incorporated this popular method for individuals to pull in news and information from across the Web. It allows anyone with an RSS reader program (easily downloadable for free from the Web) to have tables of contents pushed to them. This service is now being offered by many online media outlets, including The New York Times and The Wall Street Journal, and now all SAGE journals.

Pay-Per-View Articles (SAGE Journals Online)

Even non-subscribers now have access to JME content through the Pay-Per-View feature on SAGE Journals Online. This feature allows one to buy an individual article download without subscribing to the entire journal. Contact information about these buyers is used in subsequent promotional efforts.

From November 2004 through June 6, 2006, 75 people purchased articles from JME, and 9 customers paid for 24-hour access to JMEcontent via SAGE Journals Online.

Association Link

People visiting the JME homepage can link directly to the Organizational Behavior Teaching Society (OBTS) website ( providing OBTS added exposure and the possibility of new members.

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Management and Organization Studies: A SAGE Full-Text Collection

JME is also available online via SAGE’s full-text management and organization studies collection. Being included in this discipline-specific database provides JME with yet another avenue of important online exposure, as not only single institutions, but also consortia, have found the SAGE Collections an attractive means of accessing journal content.

Management & Organization Studies: A SAGE Full-Text Collection is a powerful research database, it comprises the most popular peer-reviewed journals in Management & Organizational Studies from SAGE and participating societies. An important resource for scholars, this comprehensive database includes the current issues for 38 journals and decades of back content totaling 13,200 articles, book reviews, and editorials, with all the original graphics, tables, and page numbers. Because so much content is available within one product, Management & Organization Studies: A SAGE Full- Text Collection appeals to libraries with relatively large budgets looking for the most complete solution to their patrons’ information needs.