The Australian Business Deans Council took two years to review its journal ranking, now it asks whether it worth the effort

The ABDC is asking constituents, “do the benefits of having the list outweigh the costs of undertaking the review?

What, you ask the list that was reviewed 2017-19, before 157 journals were added and 241 dropped from the 2016 edition, (CMM August 28 2017 and December 10 2019)?

That’s the one.

But this is not an opportunity for the aggrieved to appeal a ranking, or criticise people and processes. ABDC president David Grant is adamant that any submissions that do “will be disregarded. “

For people who do think the process is worth the pain there are a bunch of methodological questions on what to include in the next one, if there is a next one.