Dear Colleagues, In this newsletter, you’ll find the MAG Scholar Top 500 Journals List 2009, the preface of our recently published A Handbook of Confucian/Chopsticks Marketing, notices relating to the Asia Pacific Marketing Conference in Kuching, Malaysia in 2009 and the Symposium on Halal Marketing in Wellington, New Zealand in 2010.

MAG Scholar List – Top 500 Journals
This list consists of top 500 journals that were nominated by 538 academics from across the five continents. We limited the list to just 500 journals; trimmed off about 50 odd journals, which in our opinion had no relevance to commerce or business subjects. As each journal has its own feature and merit, we decided to allocate more weight to the first recall than the second, third and so forth. As a result of applying this formula, our statistical analysis produced a clear classification of the journals which we classified as AAA, AAB and ABB. Please refer to the attached Appendix 4 and Appendix 5.

A Handbook of Confucian/Chopsticks Marketing
This Handbook has ten chapters in total. All the chapters were peer reviewed. This Handbook is MAG Scholar’s first venture into publishing. For details, please go to our Publication page. I would request your support in it circulation by recommending it to your library or purchase a copy for your book shelf.

3rd Asia Pacific Marketing Conference
This conference will be held in beautiful Kuching, Malaysia between December 09 and 11, 2009. MAG Scholar is the co-organizer of this Asia Pacific conference. A new initiative was introduced to this year’s conference. There will be two 90 minutes interactive special sessions. The first session is about “What your supervisors did not tell you about publishing”. The second session is on “Marketing Places: Controversies, Contradictions and Consequences”. It is still not too late to send your manuscript/s to this conference. Visit the conference website at http://www.feb.unimas.my/apmc2009/

Symposium on Halal Marketing
The School of Marketing and International Business, Victoria University of Wellington will play host to the first Symposium on Halal Marketing in New Zealand. It will be held in early February 2010 in beautiful Wellington. All submissions are subject to double blind review and publish in a Handbook of Halal Marketing. There is an opportunity for some of the articles to be published in the Asian Journal of Business Research and Journal of Islamic Marketing. Further information will be made available in the next newsletter.

That’s all for now!