Abstract:
This paper presents the quantitative comparison of the top five journals based on
many articles published on Human Resource Management (HRM) indexed with
Scopus. A total of 102,333 contributions were published in 10,186 Human Resource
Management journals. Scopus is one of the large abstract and citation databases of
peer-reviewed literature. It has comprehensive metrics to evaluate the journal quality
from over 5,000 publishers. This study selected the top five journals publishing
human resource management related research output. The top five journals were
selected concerning number of articles published by respective journals on human
resource management. Quality indicators number of articles published on HRM and
h index, CiteScore publication by year, SCI mago journal rank by year, Source
Normalized impact/year, source citation by year, source documents by year,
percentage of document not cited by year, and international collaboration were used
to compare the journal performance. The sum of the research output in the Human
resource management journal shows high citation throughout the period considered,
it is a potential journal in the field of HRM and trend of international author
contribution. The output of this study will help the academics, researchers and
information professionals select the quality and potential journals in the field of HRM
to publish their research and subscribe to the library.
