Abstract In this editorial, I seek to inform entrepreneurship scholars about the significance of unequivocal “A” level entrepreneurship journals for the continued ascent of entrepreneurship as a universally recognized “mainstream” academic field. Drawing insights from research on intellectual movements and the evolution of academic fields, I take stock of entrepreneurship as a community of scholars mobilizing elements of distinctiveness and legitimacy to elevate the status of the field. Doing so, I offer three field level observations on the primacy of unequivocal “A” journals for advancing the field. I then delineate a set of role related implications for members of the community, including authors, senior scholars, and newcomers to the field. Finally, I entertain some common objections to emphasizing journal status as a mechanism in entrepreneurship's upsurge to “mainstream” academic field.

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社论：推进创业领域：明确的“A”级创业期刊的首要地位

摘要 在这篇社论中，我试图让创业学者了解明确的“A”级创业期刊对于创业作为公认的“主流”学术领域的持续上升的重要性。从对知识分子运动和学术领域演变的研究中汲取见解，我将企业家精神视为一个学者社区，动员独特性和合法性元素来提升该领域的地位。这样做，我就明确的“A”期刊在推进该领域的重要性提出了三个领域层面的观察。然后，我描述了对社区成员（包括作者、资深学者和该领域的新人）的一系列与角色相关的影响。最后，