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DBA Student Research Guide: Journals

This guide provides a list of research services and resources available to DBA students including: citation, dissertation writing and research guides, database recommendations and data sources.

Identifying Journals for your research

Library databases index/abstract or provide the full-text of thousands journals. To identify journals in a particular field:

If you wish to identify the relatively few top or leading journals in a particular field, a key approach is to find rankings/metrics. Information on how to use resources for citation analysis, which includes information about impact factors, journal rankings, altmetrics and how to find who has cited an article, is presented in excellent detail at: Research Impact Metrics: Citation Analysis (produced by the University of Michigan Library).  Since GGU Business Library does not subscribe to any of the citation analysis services, you may wish to focus on the freely available ones, such as Google Scholar and those listed in the "Alternative Methods" section of that guide.

Also note that leading journals may display their rankings/impact factors on their own publishers' websites.

Some EBSCO databases provide the ability to "browse references." When you run a Basic or Advanced Keyword Search, any Cited References or Times Cited links that are available are presented with your search results. See support.ebsco.com for more information. The Cited References  link under "More" on the dark gray band above the search windows gives you more options. These options may not be available when searching more than one database at a time.

In ProQuest databases look under the brief listing of each article in your search results for "Cited by (‎14)." This feature will generally be for scholarly/peer reviewed sources.

Key Search Tools

Search Articles & E-Books
This tool searches for articles and e-books across many, but not all library platforms simultaneously

Search A-Z Databases
This list provides individual options for discipline-specific and other research

Search E-Journals
This tool facilitates searches for journals by title, keyword, or by subject area