Journal rankings · indicator year 2004
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Field ranking · 2004
Business, Management and Accounting journal rankings 2004
379 ranked journals · Field in Social Sciences
Business, Management and Accounting has 379 ranked journals in 2004. Its median journal scores above the world average: OJR 1.15 against 1.00, up 0.04 on 2003. A journal needs OJR 2.42 to reach Q1. The top three are Journal of Accounting and Economics, Journal of Marketing, and Organization Science.
Ranks and citation indicators: 2004. Journal access status and listed APC: source snapshot September 23, 2026.
Journals whose main subfield sits in this category and that published at least 30 citable documents (articles, reviews and conference papers) in 2001–2003, the window the 2004 score is computed on.
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.
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.
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.
Subfields in Business, Management and Accounting (9)
Up to Social Sciences379 ranked journals
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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. | 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 2003. This is OpenJournalRank’s own count, not Clarivate’s Journal Impact Factor. | Citable documents (articles, reviews and conference papers) published in 2001–2003, the window the 2004 OJR is computed on. A journal needs at least 30 to be ranked. | Share of the journal’s 2001–2003 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 2004. | Compare |
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1Journal of Accounting and EconomicsElsevier BV · Netherlands | 14.04Q1 | 4.07 2.82 down from 2003 | 85 | 5% | $4,170 | ||
2Journal of MarketingSAGE Publishing · United Kingdom | 13.25Q1 | 6.57 0.46 up from 2003 | 120 | 11% | $5,400 | ||
3Organization ScienceInstitute for Operations Research and the Management Sciences · United States | 12.56Q1 | 5.12 1.06 down from 2003 | 170 | 11% | — | ||
4Strategic Management JournalWiley · United States | 12.09Q1 | 4.76 1.57 down from 2003 | 237 | 14% | $4,250 | ||
5Academy of Management ReviewAcademy of Management · United States | 11.22Q1 | 5.17 0.32 down from 2003 | 316 | 4% | — | ||
6California Management ReviewSAGE Publishing · United States | 9.05Q1 | 3.33 1.45 down from 2003 | 100 | 2% | $3,900 | ||
7Journal of RetailingElsevier BV · United States | 8.44Q1 | 3.13 0.54 up from 2003 | 82 | 3% | $3,030 | ||
8Journal of Management Information SystemsTaylor & Francis · United States | 8.07Q1 | 3.92 0.60 down from 2003 | 144 | 12% | — | ||
9The Accounting ReviewAmerican Accounting Association · United States | 7.81Q1 | 4.47 1.42 up from 2003 | 119 | 8% | — | ||
10Academy of Management JournalAcademy of Management · United States | 7.76Q1 | 3.35 1.25 down from 2003 | 400 | 3% | — | ||
11Journal of International Business StudiesPalgrave Macmillan · United Kingdom | 7.40Q1 | 3.42 0.84 up from 2003 | 172 | 29% | $4,790 | ||
12International Journal of Electronic CommerceTaylor & Francis · United States | 7.17Q1 | 2.55 1.50 down from 2003 | 103 | 3% | — | ||
13Journal of Marketing ResearchSAGE Publishing · United Kingdom | 6.80Q1 | 3.61 0.46 up from 2003 | 125 | 4% | $5,400 | ||
14Journal of Business VenturingElsevier BV · Netherlands | 6.55Q1 | 2.77 0.06 down from 2003 | 139 | 9% | $4,130 | ||
15Journal of International ManagementElsevier BV · Netherlands | 6.10Q1 | 2.63 1.09 up from 2003 | 67 | 6% | $4,020 | ||
16Journal of Accounting ResearchWiley · United Kingdom | 6.08Q1 | 3.90 0.95 up from 2003 | 113 | 7% | $4,420 | ||
17Journal of Operations ManagementWiley · United States | 6.03Q1 | 3.71 1.29 up from 2003 | 115 | 13% | $3,520 | ||
18The Journal of Strategic Information SystemsElsevier BV · Netherlands | 5.83Q1 | 3.05 0.11 up from 2003 | 62 | 5% | $4,160 | ||
19Journal of ManagementSAGE Publishing · United States | 5.69Q1 | 2.13 0.58 down from 2003 | 239 | 5% | $3,900 | ||
20Accounting HorizonsAmerican Accounting Association · United States | 5.40Q1 | 2.26 0.20 down from 2003 | 95 | 5% | — | ||
21Journal of the Academy of Marketing ScienceSpringer Science+Business Media · United States | 5.32Q1 | 4.09 1.87 up from 2003 | 143 | 0% | $4,790 | ||
22Journal of Management StudiesWiley · United Kingdom | 4.97Q1 | 1.80 0.27 down from 2003 | 195 | 49% | $4,150 | ||
23Entrepreneurship Theory and PracticeSAGE Publishing · United States | 4.84Q1 | 2.08 0.14 down from 2003 | 88 | 8% | $3,900 | ||
24Journal of Organizational BehaviorWiley · United Kingdom | 4.70Q1 | 2.84 0.06 down from 2003 | 169 | 9% | $4,250 | ||
25Review of Accounting StudiesSpringer Science+Business Media · United States | 4.66Q1 | 2.49 0.14 up from 2003 | 50 | 4% | $3,190 | ||
26Journal of Consumer ResearchOxford University Press · United States | 4.63Q1 | 3.00 0.55 up from 2003 | 167 | 12% | $4,224 | ||
27Accounting Organizations and SocietyElsevier BV · Netherlands | 4.51Q1 | 2.97 0.09 up from 2003 | 144 | 7% | $4,040 | ||
28Journal of Occupational and Organizational PsychologyWiley · United Kingdom | 4.47Q1 | 2.13 0.58 down from 2003 | 89 | 5% | $3,840 | ||
29Journal of Vocational BehaviorElsevier BV · United States | 4.43Q1 | 2.42 0.90 down from 2003 | 228 | 5% | $4,690 | ||
30Organization StudiesSAGE Publishing · Germany | 4.42Q1 | 1.48 0.41 down from 2003 | 200 | 13% | $3,900 | ||
31Accounting Auditing & Accountability JournalEmerald Publishing Limited · United Kingdom | 4.40Q1 | 2.09 0.37 down from 2003 | 113 | 5% | — | ||
32Journal of Product Innovation ManagementWiley · United States | 4.31Q1 | 2.49 0.29 up from 2003 | 183 | 5% | $3,400 | ||
33International Journal of Service Industry ManagementEmerald Publishing Limited · United Kingdom | 4.31Q1 | 1.70 0.86 down from 2003 | 88 | 10% | — | ||
34Journal of Small Business ManagementWiley · United States | 4.20Q1 | 1.72 0.39 up from 2003 | 98 | 11% | $2,500 | ||
35Journal of World BusinessElsevier BV · United States | 4.20Q1 | 1.64 0.21 down from 2003 | 103 | 10% | $4,750 | ||
36Journal of Intellectual CapitalEmerald Publishing Limited · United Kingdom | 4.18Q1 | 2.16 0.14 down from 2003 | 91 | 5% | — | ||
37International Journal of Research in MarketingElsevier BV · United Kingdom | 3.97Q1 | 2.37 0.68 up from 2003 | 68 | 15% | $4,000 | ||
38Manufacturing & Service Operations ManagementInstitute for Operations Research and the Management Sciences · United States | 3.86Q1 | 2.68 0.66 up from 2003 | 73 | 4% | — | ||
39IEEE Transactions on Engineering ManagementInstitute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers · United States | 3.78Q1 | 1.57 0.01 down from 2003 | 125 | 4% | $2,645 | ||
40Journal of Service ResearchSAGE Publishing · United States | 3.77Q1 | 2.46 0.52 up from 2003 | 96 | 16% | $3,900 | ||
41Organizational DynamicsElsevier BV · United States | 3.72Q1 | 1.50 0.65 down from 2003 | 105 | 0% | $2,740 | ||
42Corporate Social Responsibility and Environmental ManagementWiley · United Kingdom | 3.71Q1 | 1.67 1.07 up from 2003 | 39 | 0% | $4,100 | ||
43Industrial Marketing ManagementElsevier BV · United States | 3.67Q1 | 2.04 0.46 up from 2003 | 238 | 5% | $3,990 | ||
44Academy of Management Learning and EducationAcademy of Management · United States | 3.67Q1 | 2.08 0.55 down from 2003 | 71 | 5% | — | ||
45European Journal of Purchasing & Supply ManagementElsevier BV · United Kingdom | 3.65Q1 | 2.38 0.63 up from 2003 | 44 | — | — | ||
46Human Resource Management JournalWiley · United Kingdom | 3.61Q1 | 2.02 0.07 up from 2003 | 67 | 13% | $4,250 | ||
47Information Resources Management JournalIGI Global · United States | 3.56Q1 | 1.88 0.43 up from 2003 | 51 | 0% | — | ||
48Small Business EconomicsSpringer Science+Business Media · Netherlands | 3.53Q1 | 1.23 0.40 down from 2003 | 148 | 11% | $3,090 | ||
49Journal of Business LogisticsWiley · United States | 3.53Q1 | 1.45 0.57 down from 2003 | 65 | 7% | $3,570 | ||
50Decision SciencesWiley · United States | 3.52Q1 | 2.30 0.59 up from 2003 | 85 | 21% | $3,090 |
Subfields of Business, Management and Accounting, compared.
- Strategy and Management101
- Organizational Behavior and Human Resource Management84
- Accounting69
- Marketing55
- Management Information Systems44
- Management of Technology and Innovation19
- Tourism, Leisure and Hospitality Management6
- Business and International Management1
- Industrial relations0
Journals
Citations made in 2004. Corpus-wide, 69.4% of core-journal articles and reviews published that year have at least one matched reference; the share varies by journal and field.
149 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 2001–2003, 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.
At a glance
Indicator year: 2004. Publication window: 2001–2003. How these summaries are calculated
- Ranked journals
- 379
- Window papers (baseline)
- 120,666 +39.3% from indicator year 2001
- Median OJR
- 1.15 +14.7% from indicator year 2001
- Rising journals (2025)
- 44Comparison-group list (44)
Window papers are the baseline paper population: citable papers (articles, reviews and conference papers) from 2001–2003 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.
| Measure | Year series | 2000 | 2001 | 2002 | 2003 | 2004 | 2005 | 2006 | 2007 | 2008 | 2009 | 2010 | 2011 | 2012 | 2013 | 2014 | 2015 | 2016 | 2017 | 2018 | 2019 | 2020 | 2021 | 2022 | 2023 | 2024 | 2025 |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Ranked journals | 301 | 319 | 337 | 362 | 379 | 393 | 410 | 444 | 472 | 504 | 533 | 564 | 603 | 631 | 654 | 679 | 699 | 723 | 732 | 731 | 736 | 728 | 732 | 746 | 736 | 711 | |
| Window papers (baseline) | 77,554 | 86,596 | 96,328 | 108,450 | 120,666 | 134,917 | 150,748 | 168,846 | 187,138 | 204,210 | 221,221 | 236,993 | 260,265 | 277,202 | 296,178 | 310,557 | 324,663 | 331,972 | 338,869 | 352,446 | 378,348 | 410,151 | 441,053 | 455,118 | 483,546 | 540,006 | |
| Median OJR | 0.94 | 1.0005 | 1.05 | 1.11 | 1.15 | 1.29 | 1.38 | 1.429 | 1.45 | 1.35 | 1.402 | 1.396 | 1.388 | 1.3697 | 1.42 | 1.33 | 1.426 | 1.374 | 1.3699 | 1.390 | 1.49 | 1.56 | 1.53 | 1.48 | 1.57 | 1.62 |
| Measure | Category statistic | Eligible population |
|---|---|---|
| Journal self-citation share | Median: 6.2% | 535 journals |
| Retracted papers per 1,000 | Pooled rate: 1.041 per 1,000 | 391 journals |
| Output growth | Median: 0.0% | 662 journals |
| Open access share | Median: 44.9% | 711 journals |
| Listed APC (USD) | Median including $0 listed prices: $3,400 | 278 ranked journals with a known listed price, including $0 listed prices |
| International collaboration share | Median: 29.9% | 665 journals |
| Review share | Median: 1.1% | 711 journals |
| Articles-only OJR | Median: 1.70 | 705 journals |
| Uncited share | Median: 26.8% | 711 journals |
| Citation concentration | Median: 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.