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Journal rankings · indicator year 2003

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Field ranking · 2003

Business, Management and Accounting journal rankings 2003

362 ranked journals · Field in Social Sciences

Business, Management and Accounting has 362 ranked journals in 2003. The median OJR rose 0.06 on 2002 to 1.11, above the world average of 1.00; Q1 starts at OJR 2.16. The top three are Strategic Management Journal, Organization Science, and Journal of Marketing.

Ranks and citation indicators: 2003. Journal access status and listed APC: source snapshot September 23, 2026.

Ranked journals

Journals whose main subfield sits in this category and that published at least 30 citable documents (articles, reviews and conference papers) in 2000–2002, the window the 2003 score is computed on.

362
11% of Social Sciences
Median OJR

The OpenJournalRank Indicator (OJR) is a free, publicly available metric of a journal’s field-normalized citation impact, computed from open OpenAlex citation data. It compares citations to a journal’s papers from the previous three years with the world average for papers of the same subfield, year and type, so 1.00 is the world average and values can be compared across fields. It is computed with the NCI3 method.

The middle OJR among ranked journals in this category: half score higher, half lower. 1.00 is the world average for papers of the same subfield, year and type.

The dot is this category, the solid tick is the median of all ranked journals and the dashed line is the world average.

1.11+0.06 vs 2002
This fieldAll 0.75World 1.00
Open-access journals

Share of ranked journals in this category that are fully open access, so every paper is free to read. Hybrid journals, which sell subscriptions and open single papers for a fee, are not counted.

6%
All fields: 13%
Median listed APC

Median list price of the article processing charge, in US dollars, among ranked journals in this category that list a price above zero. Journals with a listed APC of $0 and journals with no known price are left out of this median. The At a glance table below gives a second median that includes the $0 prices.

$3,620
Median positive listed APC: $3,620 among 161 journals. Another 2 list $0; 199 have no known price. All fields: $3,550.

Subfields in Business, Management and Accounting (9)

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362 ranked journals

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Quartiles split the ranked journals of the list you are viewing into four equal groups by OJR. Q1 is the top quarter and Q4 the bottom quarter.

They are computed within the list on screen, so a journal can be Q1 in its subfield and Q2 in the global ranking.

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Business, Management and Accounting ranking, 2003

Rank is the position by OJR within the list on screen; 1 is the highest.

OJR is field-normalized 3-year citation impact: 1.00 is the world average for papers of the same subfield, year and type, so values compare across fields.

The badge is the journal’s quartile in this list.

OJR

Citations per paper over a two-year window, counted from OpenAlex. It is not field-normalized, so compare it only between journals of the same field.

▲ or ▼ is the change from 2002. This is OpenJournalRank’s own count, not Clarivate’s Journal Impact Factor.

Citable documents (articles, reviews and conference papers) published in 2000–2002, the window the 2003 OJR is computed on. A journal needs at least 30 to be ranked.

Share of the journal’s 2000–2002 papers that are free to read in any open-access form. The green OA tag next to a title marks a fully open-access journal.

List price of the article processing charge in US dollars. “$0 listed” means the listed price is zero; a dash means no price is listed.

The line is the journal’s OJR from 2000 to 2003.

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1Strategic Management JournalWiley · United States
14.95Q16.34 0.93 up from 20022592%$4,250
2Organization ScienceInstitute for Operations Research and the Management Sciences · United States
13.04Q16.19 3.46 up from 200215911%—
3Journal of MarketingSAGE Publishing · United Kingdom
12.86Q16.12 1.62 up from 20021025%$5,400
4California Management ReviewSAGE Publishing · United States
12.39Q14.78 1.97 up from 20021027%$3,900
5Journal of Accounting and EconomicsElsevier BV · Netherlands
12.08Q16.89 3.28 up from 2002792%$4,170
6Academy of Management ReviewAcademy of Management · United States
11.26Q15.49 1.26 up from 20023340%—
7Academy of Management JournalAcademy of Management · United States
8.98Q14.61 1.55 up from 20024495%—
8Journal of Management Information SystemsTaylor & Francis · United States
7.92Q14.52 1.19 up from 20021444%—
9Journal of RetailingElsevier BV · United States
7.90Q12.59 0.93 down from 2002780%$3,030
7.69Q12.94 0.86 up from 2002523%$4,160
11The Accounting ReviewAmerican Accounting Association · United States
6.62Q13.05 0.27 up from 2002972%—
12Journal of Business VenturingElsevier BV · Netherlands
6.60Q12.83 0.36 down from 2002944%$4,130
13Journal of the Academy of Marketing ScienceSpringer Science+Business Media · United States
6.54Q12.22 2.46 down from 20021303%$4,790
14International Journal of Electronic CommerceTaylor & Francis · United States
6.37Q14.06 1.09 up from 20021046%—
15Journal of Accounting ResearchWiley · United Kingdom
6.28Q12.95 0.62 up from 20021095%$4,420
16Journal of International Business StudiesPalgrave Macmillan · United Kingdom
5.70Q12.58 0.01 up from 200217313%$4,790
17Journal of Marketing ResearchSAGE Publishing · United Kingdom
5.69Q13.15 0.17 up from 20021287%$5,400
18Entrepreneurship Theory and PracticeSAGE Publishing · United States
5.02Q12.22 1.18 up from 2002836%$3,900
19Organizational DynamicsElsevier BV · United States
4.85Q12.15 0.31 up from 2002894%$2,740
20Supply Chain Management An International JournalEmerald Publishing Limited · United Kingdom
4.79Q12.53 0.48 up from 20028511%—
21Journal of Operations ManagementWiley · United States
4.75Q12.42 0.28 down from 200213211%$3,520
22Journal of Management StudiesWiley · United Kingdom
4.69Q12.07 0.36 up from 200214434%$4,150
23Journal of Vocational BehaviorElsevier BV · United States
4.63Q13.32 1.20 up from 20021535%$4,690
24Journal of ManagementSAGE Publishing · United States
4.48Q12.70 0.49 up from 200225514%$3,900
25Marketing ScienceInstitute for Operations Research and the Management Sciences · United States
4.40Q11.53 0.69 down from 200212411%—
26Journal of Consumer ResearchOxford University Press · United States
4.36Q12.45no change15816%$4,224
27Industry and InnovationTaylor & Francis · United Kingdom
4.33Q12.00 1.29 down from 2002519%—
4.23Q12.70 0.18 up from 2002890%$3,840
29Journal of Intellectual CapitalEmerald Publishing Limited · United Kingdom
4.20Q12.30 0.74 up from 2002813%—
30Human RelationsSAGE Publishing · United Kingdom
4.19Q11.78 0.06 down from 200220910%$3,900
31International Journal of Service Industry ManagementEmerald Publishing Limited · United Kingdom
4.16Q12.56 1.05 up from 2002839%—
32Entrepreneurship and Regional DevelopmentTaylor & Francis · United Kingdom
4.15Q11.56 0.28 down from 20025415%—
33Accounting HorizonsAmerican Accounting Association · United States
4.09Q12.46 0.46 up from 2002855%—
34Journal of Service ResearchSAGE Publishing · United States
4.09Q11.94 0.11 down from 20029111%$3,900
35Journal of Small Business ManagementWiley · United States
4.00Q11.33 0.12 up from 20029011%$2,500
36Accounting Organizations and SocietyElsevier BV · Netherlands
3.96Q12.88 1.42 up from 20021361%$4,040
37Journal of Organizational BehaviorWiley · United Kingdom
3.95Q12.90 1.14 up from 200220116%$4,250
38OrganizationSAGE Publishing · United Kingdom
3.91Q11.37 0.12 up from 20021370%$3,900
39Management International ReviewSpringer Science+Business Media · Germany
3.90Q11.56 0.22 up from 2002530%$3,290
40Personnel PsychologyWiley · United Kingdom
3.86Q12.93 0.33 up from 200210613%$3,400
3.85Q12.20 0.79 up from 200219811%$3,400
42Journal of International MarketingSAGE Publishing · United States
3.79Q11.13 0.01 down from 2002743%$5,400
43International Journal of Research in MarketingElsevier BV · United Kingdom
3.79Q11.69 0.12 down from 2002670%$4,000
44Journal of Supply Chain ManagementWiley · United Kingdom
3.62Q12.12 0.10 down from 2002834%$3,700
45Journal of Corporate FinanceElsevier BV · Netherlands
3.55Q11.42 0.20 down from 2002718%$4,140
46Organizational Research MethodsSAGE Publishing · United States
3.53Q11.73 1.12 down from 2002665%$3,900
47Journal of Advertising ResearchAdvertising Research Foundation · United States
3.48Q12.31 0.19 up from 20021442%—
3.42Q12.71 1.78 up from 20028257%$2,900
49Review of Accounting StudiesSpringer Science+Business Media · United States
3.38Q12.34 0.94 up from 20024912%$3,190
50Industrial Marketing ManagementElsevier BV · United States
3.38Q11.58 0.54 down from 20021832%$3,990

Citations made in 2003. Corpus-wide, 70.2% of core-journal articles and reviews published that year have at least one matched reference; the share varies by journal and field.

131 additional Business, Management and Accounting journals with metrics are unranked under this release’s eligibility rules: a journal needs at least 30 citable documents in 2000–2002, at least 80% of them with a subfield, and a positive world-average expectation. Ranks are within the whole category; filters hide rows without re-ranking. OJR excludes self-citations.

Rising journals

At a glance

Indicator year: 2003. Publication window: 2000–2002. How these summaries are calculated

Ranked journals
362
Window papers (baseline)
108,450 +39.8% from indicator year 2000
Median OJR
1.11 +18.3% from indicator year 2000
Rising journals (2025)
44Comparison-group list (44)

Window papers are the baseline paper population: citable papers (articles, reviews and conference papers) from 2000–2002 in all journals of the world-average baseline, including non-core journals, counted by each paper’s own subfield. They are not the papers of the ranked journals alone.

Category by indicator year
MeasureYear series20002001200220032004200520062007200820092010201120122013201420152016201720182019202020212022202320242025
Ranked journals301319337362379393410444472504533564603631654679699723732731736728732746736711
Window papers (baseline)77,55486,59696,328108,450120,666134,917150,748168,846187,138204,210221,221236,993260,265277,202296,178310,557324,663331,972338,869352,446378,348410,151441,053455,118483,546540,006
Median OJR0.941.00051.051.111.151.291.381.4291.451.351.4021.3961.3881.36971.421.331.4261.3741.36991.3901.491.561.531.481.571.62
Category context (2025)
MeasureCategory statisticEligible population
Journal self-citation shareMedian: 6.2%535 journals
Retracted papers per 1,000Pooled rate: 1.041 per 1,000391 journals
Output growthMedian: 0.0%662 journals
Open access shareMedian: 44.9%711 journals
Listed APC (USD)Median including $0 listed prices: $3,400278 ranked journals with a known listed price, including $0 listed prices
International collaboration shareMedian: 29.9%665 journals
Review shareMedian: 1.1%711 journals
Articles-only OJRMedian: 1.70705 journals
Uncited shareMedian: 26.8%711 journals
Citation concentrationMedian: 45.6%710 journals

How to read these rankings

OJR, the OpenJournalRank Indicator
A field-normalized 3-year citation impact, computed from OpenAlex with the NCI3 method. It divides the citations a journal’s papers received by the world average for papers of the same subfield, year and type, so 1.00 is the world average and 2.00 means twice as many citations as expected. Because it is normalized, it can be compared across fields. Read the methodology
Quartiles
Q1 to Q4 split the ranked journals of the list you are viewing into four equal groups by OJR. A journal’s quartile depends on the list: the same journal can be Q1 in its subfield and Q2 among all journals.
Impact factor (2-year)
Citations per paper over a two-year window, counted from OpenAlex. It is easy to compare with familiar impact factors but is not field-normalized, so compare it only within a field. It is not Clarivate’s Journal Impact Factor. Why it differs from the Journal Impact Factor
Rank ranges
Each rank in the latest year carries a likely range from 1,000 resamples of the journal’s papers. Where two journals’ ranges overlap, the data cannot tell them apart, so treat neighbouring ranks as ties.