Journals of the Century in Business and Economics

Academic business librarians spend much of their time linking to journals that will supply them with a critical article needed for a student’s paper or a faculty member’s research. Through this activity we become familiar with, and learn to depend on, a core of journals whose usefulness has been proven over time. Andreas Werner accurately describes such journals as “… [those] that thoroughly cover an area of study and are of fundamental importance …those which are used regularly by all who are studying in the field.” ¹ These are the titles resting on the shelves of every top academic business library across the country; the ones we would never cut. Some of them fit as comfortably in the library of a practitioner as of a researcher, but the magnitude of their contribution to a particular business discipline cannot be argued. This paper is an attempt to give formal recognition to these valuable journals.