Top Management Journal Portal: A Real-Source Search and Research Analytics Artifact for UTD-24 and FT50 Journals
2026-04-09 • Digital Libraries
Digital LibrariesSoftware Engineering
AI summaryⓘ
The authors developed a web tool called the Top Management Journal Portal to help people find and understand research articles from top business and management journals. It combines data from two important journal lists and gets up-to-date article information using an online service. The tool is designed to make searching easier by organizing results, showing popular topics, and saving useful articles, especially for researchers and students. The system is built to be simple, transparent, and inexpensive to run, with optional smart features for better summaries. The authors present both a working version of the tool and a flexible design for similar research discovery systems.
Top Management Journal PortalUTD-24Financial Times 50Crossref REST APIsensemakingNode.jslarge language modelSupabasescholarly discoveryresearch infrastructure
Authors
Chuang Zhao, Hongke Zhao
Abstract
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.