Australian Business Deans Council (ABDC)
In 2022, I chaired the panel reviewing the ABDC journal ranking lists for Management, Commercial Services, Transport, and Logistics. It was only a 'minor' review with no re-ranking of journals until 2024/2025, but it was the first review after the Field of Research (FOR) had changed. Whereas the previous 1503 code had been a bit of a catch-all for management journals, various disciplines have now been teased out. In particular, Human Resource Management and Industrial Relations has its own code, 3505, as does data analytics, 3503. Unfortunately, most journals have multiple FOR codes, so the panel's job involved researching each journal in the list and allocating it to just one code.