We received over 900 submissions last year which is a 22% increase from the previous year.  To help us handle all these submissions, we are welcoming two new Associate Editors to the JOM Editorial team. Please help me in giving a SMA welcome to Yasemin Kor of the University of South Carolina and Greg Stewart of the University of Iowa.

Starting in January of 2010, JOM will be published from January to November and our two Review Issues will be published in January and July. The upcoming December 2009 Review Issue contains nine stimulating articles along with three editorials about the JOM Review Issue.  I encourage you to take a look – especially if you have ever considered submitting a proposal for writing a Review Issue article.

We have been working diligently to get papers reviewed in a timely manner. I am happy to announce that the average time a paper is under review at JOM is 41 days with our fantastic reviewers taking an average of 28 days to complete their reviews.

Below please find a summary of the 2008 JOM Rankings and Impact Factor and a list of the 2009 JOM Best Paper Award winners. Thank you!

Talya Bauer
Cameron Professor of Management
Editor, Journal of Management

Thomson Reuters 2008 Journal Citation Reports®
JOM 2008 Rankings:
5/89 in Management
7/77 in Business
JOM 2008 Impact Factor: 3.080

2009 Journal of Management
Best Paper Award Winners
Award sponsored by Sage Publications, Inc.

The authors of the following five papers were all recognized for their high impact contribution to JOM with plaques at the JOM Editorial Board Meeting held during the Academy of Management Annual Meeting in Chicago, IL.  In addition, Christina Shalley (Georgia Tech), Jing Zhou (Rice University), and Greg Oldham (Tulane University) were awarded a $1,500 cash prize after being selected as the paper with the highest quality and impact of any article published in 2004 by a JOM Award Selection Committee.

Carpenter, M.A, Geletkanycz, M. & Sanders, W.G. 2004. Upper echelons research revisited: Antecedents, elements, and consequences of top management team composition. Journal of Management, 30: 749-778.

Halbesleben, J. R. B., & Buckley, M. R. 2004. Burnout in organizational life. Journal of Management, 30: 859-879.

Hillman, A. J., Keim, G. D., & Schuler, D. 2004. Corporate political activity: A review and research agenda. Journal of Management, 30: 837-857.

Martins, L. L., Gilson, L. L., & Maynard, M. T. 2004. Virtual teams: What do we know and where do we go from here? Journal of Management, 30: 805-825.

Shalley, C. E., Zhou, J., & Oldham, G. R. 2004. The effects of personal and contextual characteristics on creativity: Where should we go from here? Journal of Management, 30: 933-958.