Where do/should we publish CI papers?? Is this satisfactory or not?

[Craig S. Fleisher]

A demonstrated sign of a healthy professional field is that there is regular knowledge development and dissemination occurring across a range of published channels, particularly amongst those who are studying it on a full-time basis such as would be done by university academics. We have shared concerns for many years about whether the field of CI a) has enough research being conducted, b) has enough research being successfully disseminated through refereed publication channels, and c) whether there are enough researchers, to ensure a healthy field both in the present and future.

To stimulate some discussion about this, I am providing below some data from a thesis done by Marisa Ramirez in 2005 at the University of North Carolina (SLIS) which compares where CI articles are classified in two of the larger subscription services (ABI Inform and LISA -- I have only included the ABI Inform table below since it contains far more content than LISA). What are our members' thoughts about the data below? Is this satisfactory in your view? Should we be publishing more elsewhere? What happens in the absence of a CI-dedicated, scholarly outlet like we had with CI Review (CIR) or the Journal of CI and Management (JCIM)? Your thoughts are invited and welcomed!!

Marie's thesis was entitled "A COMPARATIVE STUDY OF BIBLIOMETRIC CHARACTERISTICS OF
COMPETITIVE INTELLIGENCE SCHOLARLY MATERIAL IN BUSINESS AND LIBRARY SCIENCE DATABASES" and can be found in its entirety at: http://etd.ils.unc.edu:8080/dspace/bitstream/1901/141/1/MarisaRamir... for those who are interested in reading more about this fascinating question.

Journals with five or more CI Articles Retrieved from ABI/Inform
(For the period January 1975 to December 2004)
RANK Journal Name Number of ArticlesRetrieved % of all ABI Articles
1 Competitive Intelligence Review 318 27.0%
2 Long Range Planning 50 4.2%
3 Journal of Business Strategy 29 2.5%
4 Marketing Intelligence & Planning 22 1.9%
5 Planning Review 19 1.6%
6 Strategic Management Journal 18 1.5%
7 Business Horizons 17 1.4%
8 Journal of Public Affairs 17 1.4%
9 Management Review 16 1.4%
10 Journal of Business Ethics 14 1.2%
11 Academy of Management Journal 11 0.9%
12 Journal of the American Planning Association 11 0.9%
13 International Journal of Contemporary Hospitality Management 11 0.9%
14 Managerial Planning 11 0.9%
15 California Management Review 10 0.8%
16 Environmental Manager 10 0.8%
17 Research Technology Management 10 0.8%
18 Information Management Journal 9 0.8%
19 International Journal of Technology Management 9 0.8%
20 Journal of Small Business Management 9 0.8%
21 Strategic Finance 9 0.8%
22 Harvard Business Review 8 0.7%
23 Industrial Marketing Management 8 0.7%
24 Journal of Management 8 0.7%
25 Management International Review 8 0.7%
26 Public Relations Review 8 0.7%
27 S.A.M. Advanced Management Journal 8 0.7%
28 Strategic Change 8 0.7%
29 American Demographics 7 0.6%
30 Journal of Consumer Marketing 7 0.6%
31 Journal of Environmental Planning and Management 7 0.6%
32 Business and Society 6 0.5%
33 Corporate Communications 6 0.5%
34 HR. Human Resource Planning 6 0.5%
35 International Journal of Information Management 6 0.5%
36 Journal of Business & Industrial Marketing 6 0.5%
37 Journal of Business Research 6 0.5%
38 Journal of Information Science 6 0.5%
39 Journal of Management Case Studies 6 0.5%
40 The Journal of Management Development 6 0.5%
41 Management Decision 6 0.5%
42 The Academy of Management Review 5 0.4%
43 American Bankers Association Banking Journal 5 0.4%
44 Decision Support Systems 5 0.4%
45 Human Relations 5 0.4%
46 International Journal of Management 5 0.4%
47 The Journal of Product Innovation Management 5 0.4%
48 MIS Quarterly 5 0.4%
49 Technovation 5 0.4%