Support Of Academic Journals In Finding Ph.D. Programs

AACBE advises students that in addition to examining an online university’s accreditation, exploring academic journals by discipline also can help narrow down a list of universities that likely have high-quality doctoral programs in your area of interest. For example, if you are interested in pursuing a PhD in management, look through top management journals. Take notes of article authors and the schools they are from. Then, explore their research backgrounds. Are these authors well-known in their fields? What kinds of topics have they researched? Are they recognized as specialists in any one area (such as organizational design, leadership, employee morale, etc.)? Are any of these specialized areas subjects that you are passionate about researching? 

Once you have a list of authors and schools, find out if the online university or online institution offers a PhD program and if the researcher mentors doctoral students. Your goal is to learn from the best in your field. The better your doctoral mentor, the better your research skills will be when you graduate.  

Here are a list of well-known academic journals to get you started:

• Accounting
• Accounting and Business Research
• Accounting Educators' Journal
• Journal of Accounting Research
• Journal of Money, Credit, and Banking
• Securities Regulation Law Journal

• Decision Sciences
• Decision Sciences Journal
• Decision Sciences Journal of Innovative Education

• Finance
• Journal of Finance
• Journal of Financial Economics
• Journal of Money, Credit, and Banking

• Management
• Academy of Management Journal
• Academy of Management Perspectives
• Academy of Management Review
• American Behavioral Scientist
• Canadian Journal of Administrative Sciences
• Journal of International Management
• Journal of Operations Management
• Organization Science
• Management Science
• Multivariate Behavior Research
• Strategic Management Journal
• Strategic Organization

• Marketing
• Journal of Consumer Research
• Journal of Marketing
• Journal of Marketing Research
• Marketing Science