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Smart Strategies for Engaging with Academic Journals |
As a doctoral student, diving into academic journals is one of the most effective ways to build depth and originality in your dissertation research. Two powerful strategies—browsing journal issues and searching within specific journal titles—can help you go beyond surface-level results and uncover the scholarly conversations that matter most to your topic.
Browsing full journal issues reveals how scholars shape current debates, which methods are trending, and how ideas evolve across fields. It's a smart way to spot patterns, uncover surprising connections, and identify gaps your dissertation could address. You might even discover a themed issue that aligns with your topic—or articles that challenge your thinking and sharpen your research questions.
Searching within key journals gives you a focused view of vetted, relevant work, making it easier to build your theoretical framework or find methodological models. Journals reflect a discipline's priorities, so seeing how your topic is treated helps you align with scholarly standards while spotting opportunities for original contributions. Combined with browsing, targeted searching balances exploration with precision to support both creativity and rigor in your dissertation.
The 25 journals listed below are part of the Emerald Publications Collection available through Waggoner Library. Each title offers valuable research in the related field. Along with a short description of each journal, you'll find links and information on how to browse or search them—making it easier to dive in and discover the content most useful for your research. Emerald Publishing doesn't let you search within a specific journal. To make this option easier, links to "search withing" are provided to either library databases or Google Scholar. Some journals aren't available through the library, so those Google Scholar links can help you access articles that would otherwise be hard to find.
The journal provides a platform for research in the areas of Careers and development, addressing questions of theory and theory development, as well as organizational career strategy, policy, and practice.
A curated selection of authored and summarized articles offers graduate students concise, research-based insights into organizational development, including leadership, talent management, organizational learning, and social and human capital.
An international academic journal examining employment and HR challenges within evolving national and global labor markets, emphasizing stakeholder behaviors and decisions in response to dynamic socio-economic contexts.
Provides a platform for the critical and rigorous exploration of equal opportunities concerns, including gender, ethnicity, class, disability, age, sexual orientation, religion, as well as other emerging forms of inequality in the context of society, organisations, and work.
This journal provides researchers and practitioners in training and development with news, research findings, case studies, and critical discussions, with a primary focus on European activity and relevant global contributions.
This journal employs empirical methods to investigate how talent affects performance at individual, organizational, and societal levels, underscoring the practical value of evidence-based HR practices in demonstrating the measurable impact of human capital.
The journal focuses on empirical research, theoretical developments, practical applications, and current issues, addressing broad-ranging social issues, political and legislative decisions, social and educational policies, and economic factors within the context of gender, management, and leadership, thereby advancing knowledge and practice in the field.
Provides those involved in training and development, organizational development, and human resource development with access to evidence-based studies, aiming to improve practices that benefit individuals, organizations, communities, and society.
The journal publishes research on micro, meso, and macro organizational dynamics. It places its focus on both empirical and theoretical contributions, as far as they develop, create, and/or improve our knowledge and understanding of human behavior in organizations.
This journal critically examines organizational theory and practice across disciplines, including HRM, strategy, and entrepreneurship, encouraging interdisciplinary perspectives, innovative methodologies, and explorations of organizational constructs, behaviors, and their societal implications.
The journal publishes research in productivity science and performance management, as well as measurement, to enhance individual, group, organizational, and network performance. showcasing high-quality content covering all aspects of productivity and performance management from a wide range of contexts, sectors, and practices.
The journal serves as an outlet for research on topics related to global mobility and all types of global employees, catering to a community of scholars and practitioners interested in the theoretical and empirical perspectives of global mobility, as well as its antecedents, correlates, and consequences.
This journal publishes research that poses and addresses significant questions in management development, advancing theory, extending prior studies, and synthesizing existing research through diverse empirical methods, including qualitative, quantitative, field, laboratory, meta-analytic, and mixed-method approaches.
The journal focuses on the application of the theory and practice of managerial psychology, which as a field that concentrates on the behaviors, theories, practices, methods, and tools used to solve workplace problems and enhance the effectiveness of individuals at work.
This journal examines alternative and critical perspectives on organizational change and development, drawing on diverse theoretical frameworks and challenging conventional paradigms. These include critical theory, post- and meta-modernism, participatory action research, and qualitative analyses of change, discourse, and organizational transformation practices.
This journal publishes integrative reviews and empirical studies on people and performance management across individual, team, organizational, and societal levels, advancing theory and addressing performance issues that are relevant at the individual, team, functional, organizational, and societal (policy) levels.
The only journal specifically dedicated to the theme of organizational ethnography is a vibrant and growing research field that has become increasingly significant in organization and management studies in recent years.
This journal examines formal and informal workplace learning at individual, group, and organizational levels, as well as work-based learning and off-the-job learning, exploring the contextual, strategic, and practical factors that influence learning processes and interventions. for the workplace.
This journal advances interdisciplinary research on leadership and organizational development by translating empirical findings into practical applications and examining organizational issues in relation to broader societal contexts.
This journal publishes rigorous, well-written research from diverse theoretical and methodological perspectives, advancing scholarly understanding of people, work, and organizations.
This journal, grounded in critical social science, promotes critical and innovative qualitative research in organizational and management studies, fostering debate and methodological diversity to explore the interplay between organizations, management, and their localized contexts.
This practitioner-oriented journal delivers case studies, research, and actionable insights to support senior HR professionals in enhancing organizational performance through strategic human resource management.
This journal bridges the gap between theory and practice in team research by addressing the disconnect between empirical advancements and team management practices, highlighting the central role of effective teams in driving organizational success.
This journal focuses on learning organizations by promoting interdisciplinary research and debate on individual, team, and organizational learning, knowledge creation, and related practices across diverse organizational contexts.
