Examining the evolution of citations and team composition in Industrial Marketing Management

Recent editorials have discussed the maturation of Industrial Marketing Management, and its emergence as the leading academic journal devoted to business-to-business marketing (Di Benedetto & Lindgreen, 2018; Lindgreen & Di Benedetto, 2018). From its inaugural issue in 1971, Industrial Marketing Management has continuously improved along several important metrics, such as multinationality of authors and editorial board membership, and multidisciplinary scope of articles (Di Benedetto & Lindgreen, 2018; Di Benedetto, Sarin, Belkhouja, & Haon, 2018; Lindgreen & Di Benedetto, 2018). Thanks to this devotion to top-quality scholarship, Industrial Marketing Management has showed consistent and impressive growth in academic rankings such as Thomson ISI Impact Factor, and citation counts according to Google Scholar (Baumgartner & Pieters, 2003; Di Benedetto & Lindgreen, 2018; Franke & Schreier, 2008; Guidry, Guidry Hollier, Johnson, Tanner, & Veltsos, 2004; Touzani & Moussa, 2010).