Journal of Knowledge Management
The Journal of Knowledge Management (JKM) at a glance
 A cover of Journal of Knowledge Management (JKM) | |
| Discipline | Knowledge management |
|---|---|
| Language | English |
| Edited by | Prof. Manlio Del Giudice (Italy) |
| Publication details | |
| History | 1997-present |
| Publisher | Emerald (United Kingdom) |
| Frequency | 11 issues per year |
| Hybrid | |
| 4.745 (2019, JIF Clarivate) | |
| Standard abbreviations | |
| ISO 4 | JKM |
| Indexing | |
| ISSN | 1367-3270 (print) (web) |
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The Journal of Knowledge Management (JKM) (Emerald) is a peer-reviewed scientific journal dedicated to the exchange of the latest academic research and practical information on all aspects of managing knowledge in a wide range of organizations (SMEs, large corporations, MNCs, global firms). The journal is edited since the end of 2017 by Manlio Del Giudice, an Italian Full Professor of Management and top scholar : it represents the premiere choice for Knowledge Management (KM) scholars and practitioners, being a leading journal publishing cutting-edge research with real impact and top-quality management studies on innovative KM strategies with applications to real-world situations.publishes innovative, rigorous and original research and studies by academic, business and government contributors on strategies, tools, techniques, technologies, theories and practices of Knowledge Management.
Aims and scope
JKM covers all the key issues in its field including:
- Developing an appropriate culture and communication strategy of knowledge management theories and practices
- Integrating strategic knowledge management and knowledge infrastructures into real-daily management situations
- Managing knowledge flows and practical applications into learning organizations
- Information organization and retrieval technologies for improving the quality of knowledge use inside innovative, worldwide firms
- Linking knowledge management to performance initiatives, to financial decisions and to asset management
- Retaining knowledge - human and intellectual capital
- Using information technology and systems to develop knowledge management within innovative enterprises
- Linking knowledge management to decision support systems
- Understanding customer knowledge management to support marketing processes
- Connecting knowledge management to innovation systems, trajectories and technological management forecasting
- Processing and understanding big data information to support management decision
- Measuring the value of knowledge already within an organization
- Discovering what lies beyond knowledge management in real-enterprise scenarios
Facts and Figure
The JKM is ranked Q1 on both Scimago (2019) and ISI WoS (2019). Scimago (2019) shows the following excellent data for the JKM: H Index 108, SJR 1.752, Cites per doc 7.246, International Collaboration 47,83%. It is a very selective journal, with an acceptance rate at the beginnings of 2020 of about 9%. The Scopus Cite Score Tracker (2019) had been equal to 7.41. The JKM Editor-in-Chief is supported by a multiple-level team of globally recognized senior Editors: one Assistant Managing Editor, one Senior Consulting Editor, five Real Impact Editors, two Special Issue Editors, fiftheen Regional Editors.
Innovations and curiosities
Since his first appointment at the end of 2017, the current Editor-in-Chief has implemented several original and disruptive innovations to the original JKM structure and organization: he did, in fact, divide, for the first time in the history of the JKM, the original Editorial Board into an Editorial Advisory Board (populated only by both highly cited senior top scholars from several management and information systems disciplines and top managers and practitioners), having the purpose to advice the Editor-in-Chief with regards to strategic addresses for the journal; and an Editorial Board, having the final goal to support the Editor-in-Chief with the daily editorial operations as well as to contribute to the active promotion of the journal in the worldwide scientific community. Prof. Del Giudice did also enlarge the Regional Editor team with the specific inclusive purpose of giving "voice" to a wider number of local scientific communities: respect to the original JKM organization, he did introduce and dedicate one Regional Editor to Africa, two Regional Editors to Asia, two Regional Editors to Oceania (one representing the Australia and the other one the New Zealand), two Regional Editors to North America, one Regional Editor to Latin America, two Regional Editors to South America, four Regional Editors to Europe (representing different scientific communities of KM, namely UK, Spain, Germany, Italy. All the new Regional Editors introduced show a senior previous experience in apical editorial roles, in other peer reviewed scientific journals. Furthermore, at the beginnings of 2020, Prof. Del Giudice did introduce, probably for the first time for a Business and Management Journal, following the Emerald Publisher's "Real Impact Manifesto", a dedicated teams of Editors designated as Real Impact Editors, with the primary objective to deliver real impact content to the global KM scientific community and to forge networks and disseminate knowledge to wider stakelhoders not merely coming from the "academic world" but also from the "real world" (managers, entrepreneurs, professionals, practitioners). He did also introduce, for the first time, the Real Impact Articles, with the clear specific purpose to delivery specifically "real impactive contents". As further innovations, he did set up two new positions for the JKM, supporting his daily editorial job: one Assistant Managing Editor (chosen from the roles of tenured academic professors) and one Social Media Editor. The eclectic and visionary mind of the JKM Editor-in-Chief did also gave birth to other future-blinking innovations, like the video-launch for the Special Issues and the video-editorial, for those special numbers. Under Prof. Del Giudice's daring editorship and thanks to his farsighted policy of enlarging the scientific borders of the journal by opening the mind to different scientific communities linked to KM studies and research, the JKM has grown up from about 500 to more than 1,000 submissions per year, with an increase of published articles from 84 (2017) to 110 (2020), anyway keeping the articles' selection process at the highest levels of rigorousness with one of the highest rejection rate in the Management and IS fields (about 91%).Today, the JKM can count on experienced reviewers coming from about 100 different countries in the world. During the last year, the manuscripts accepted show authors coming from about 80 different countries.
This Journal is Ranked in: ANVUR Class A (Italy), AIDEA Class A (Italy), ABDC (Australia), Chartered ABS (UK), DEN 2017 (Denmark), CNRS 2017 (France), FNEGE 2016 (France); HCERES 2017 (France), The Publication Forum (Finland), Thomson Reuters (ISI), Scopus, VHB-JOURQUAL 3 (Germany), UQ 2011 (Australia)