Top Knowledge Management Journals

Students often ask for suggestions regarding academic sources for their papers. Although using keyword or subject searches in the library's online databases is where we should begin, it can also be helpful to browse journals in order to discover new topics in a field of study. It would be wonderful if we could identify several journals as primary sources to browse.

Since I have a strong interest in knowledge management (KM)/ intellectual capital (IC), and teach a course in this field, I was excited to see a fairly recent article ranking the top KM/IC journals. The authors used a combination of expert ranking and citation rate to rank the journals in the field. Using this measure, the top 25 journals were identified.

Although the authors identified 25 journals, there was a significant drop in score after the 12th ranked journal so below is my summary of the top 12 KM/IC as determined by Serenko and Bontis (2013).

1. Journal of Knowledge Management
2. Journal of Intellectual Capital
3. The Learning Organization
4. Knowledge Management Research & Practice
5. Knowledge and Process Management: The Journal of Corporate Transformation
6. International Journal of Knowledge Management
7. Journal of Information and Knowledge Management
8. Journal of Knowledge Management Practice
9. Electronic Journal of Knowledge Management
10. International Journal of Learning and Intellectual Capital
11. International Journal of Knowledge and Learning
12. VINE: The Journal of Information and Knowledge Management Systems

Reference:
Serenko, A., & Bontis, N. (2013). Global ranking of knowledge management and intellectual capital academic journals: 2013 update. Journal of Knowledge Management, 17(2), 307-326.