Top Management Journal Portal: A Real-Source Search and Research Analytics Artifact for UTD-24 and FT50 Journals
It addresses the need for specialized scholarly discovery tools in business and management research, though it is incremental as it builds on existing journal pools and APIs.
The paper presents Top Management Journal Portal, a web artifact for searching and analyzing literature from elite business and management journals, integrating UTD-24 and FT50 pools to support tasks like query formulation, filtering, and hotspot extraction for researchers and students.
This paper presents Top Management Journal Portal, a deployable web artifact for searching, monitoring, and interpreting literature from elite business and management journals. The system integrates the UTD-24 and Financial Times 50 (FT50) journal pools, retrieves live article metadata from the Cross- ref REST API, and organizes scholarly work into an end-to-end workflow spanning query formulation, result filtering, hotspot extraction, citation export, favorites management, and usage analytics. Unlike static journal directories or general-purpose academic search engines, the artifact is explicitly scoped to high-status management outlets and is designed to support sensemaking tasks that matter to researchers, doctoral students, and lab managers: identifying recent work, surfacing topical concentration, and converting search output into actionable research material. Architecturally, the system emphasizes source transparency, modularity, and low-cost public deployability through a lightweight Node.js service layer, a multi-page client interface, optional large-language-model enhancement for hotspot rewriting, and a free-tier persistence path through Supabase. The paper contributes both a functioning design artifact and an extensible architectural pattern for journal-pool-specific scholarly discovery, with implications for digital research infrastructure in information systems and business scholarship.