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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.

Ranked journals

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.

379
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.

1.15+0.04 vs 2003
This fieldAll 0.76World 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: 14%
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.

$3,605
Median positive listed APC: $3,605 among 168 journals. Another 2 list $0; 209 have no known price. All fields: $3,550.

Subfields in Business, Management and Accounting (9)

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379 ranked journals

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Quartile

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, 2004

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 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.

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1Journal of Accounting and EconomicsElsevier BV · Netherlands
14.04Q14.07 2.82 down from 2003855%$4,170
2Journal of MarketingSAGE Publishing · United Kingdom
13.25Q16.57 0.46 up from 200312011%$5,400
3Organization ScienceInstitute for Operations Research and the Management Sciences · United States
12.56Q15.12 1.06 down from 200317011%—
4Strategic Management JournalWiley · United States
12.09Q14.76 1.57 down from 200323714%$4,250
5Academy of Management ReviewAcademy of Management · United States
11.22Q15.17 0.32 down from 20033164%—
6California Management ReviewSAGE Publishing · United States
9.05Q13.33 1.45 down from 20031002%$3,900
7Journal of RetailingElsevier BV · United States
8.44Q13.13 0.54 up from 2003823%$3,030
8Journal of Management Information SystemsTaylor & Francis · United States
8.07Q13.92 0.60 down from 200314412%—
9The Accounting ReviewAmerican Accounting Association · United States
7.81Q14.47 1.42 up from 20031198%—
10Academy of Management JournalAcademy of Management · United States
7.76Q13.35 1.25 down from 20034003%—
11Journal of International Business StudiesPalgrave Macmillan · United Kingdom
7.40Q13.42 0.84 up from 200317229%$4,790
12International Journal of Electronic CommerceTaylor & Francis · United States
7.17Q12.55 1.50 down from 20031033%—
13Journal of Marketing ResearchSAGE Publishing · United Kingdom
6.80Q13.61 0.46 up from 20031254%$5,400
14Journal of Business VenturingElsevier BV · Netherlands
6.55Q12.77 0.06 down from 20031399%$4,130
15Journal of International ManagementElsevier BV · Netherlands
6.10Q12.63 1.09 up from 2003676%$4,020
16Journal of Accounting ResearchWiley · United Kingdom
6.08Q13.90 0.95 up from 20031137%$4,420
17Journal of Operations ManagementWiley · United States
6.03Q13.71 1.29 up from 200311513%$3,520
5.83Q13.05 0.11 up from 2003625%$4,160
19Journal of ManagementSAGE Publishing · United States
5.69Q12.13 0.58 down from 20032395%$3,900
20Accounting HorizonsAmerican Accounting Association · United States
5.40Q12.26 0.20 down from 2003955%—
21Journal of the Academy of Marketing ScienceSpringer Science+Business Media · United States
5.32Q14.09 1.87 up from 20031430%$4,790
22Journal of Management StudiesWiley · United Kingdom
4.97Q11.80 0.27 down from 200319549%$4,150
23Entrepreneurship Theory and PracticeSAGE Publishing · United States
4.84Q12.08 0.14 down from 2003888%$3,900
24Journal of Organizational BehaviorWiley · United Kingdom
4.70Q12.84 0.06 down from 20031699%$4,250
25Review of Accounting StudiesSpringer Science+Business Media · United States
4.66Q12.49 0.14 up from 2003504%$3,190
26Journal of Consumer ResearchOxford University Press · United States
4.63Q13.00 0.55 up from 200316712%$4,224
27Accounting Organizations and SocietyElsevier BV · Netherlands
4.51Q12.97 0.09 up from 20031447%$4,040
4.47Q12.13 0.58 down from 2003895%$3,840
29Journal of Vocational BehaviorElsevier BV · United States
4.43Q12.42 0.90 down from 20032285%$4,690
30Organization StudiesSAGE Publishing · Germany
4.42Q11.48 0.41 down from 200320013%$3,900
31Accounting Auditing & Accountability JournalEmerald Publishing Limited · United Kingdom
4.40Q12.09 0.37 down from 20031135%—
4.31Q12.49 0.29 up from 20031835%$3,400
33International Journal of Service Industry ManagementEmerald Publishing Limited · United Kingdom
4.31Q11.70 0.86 down from 20038810%—
34Journal of Small Business ManagementWiley · United States
4.20Q11.72 0.39 up from 20039811%$2,500
35Journal of World BusinessElsevier BV · United States
4.20Q11.64 0.21 down from 200310310%$4,750
36Journal of Intellectual CapitalEmerald Publishing Limited · United Kingdom
4.18Q12.16 0.14 down from 2003915%—
37International Journal of Research in MarketingElsevier BV · United Kingdom
3.97Q12.37 0.68 up from 20036815%$4,000
38Manufacturing & Service Operations ManagementInstitute for Operations Research and the Management Sciences · United States
3.86Q12.68 0.66 up from 2003734%—
39IEEE Transactions on Engineering ManagementInstitute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers · United States
3.78Q11.57 0.01 down from 20031254%$2,645
40Journal of Service ResearchSAGE Publishing · United States
3.77Q12.46 0.52 up from 20039616%$3,900
41Organizational DynamicsElsevier BV · United States
3.72Q11.50 0.65 down from 20031050%$2,740
3.71Q11.67 1.07 up from 2003390%$4,100
43Industrial Marketing ManagementElsevier BV · United States
3.67Q12.04 0.46 up from 20032385%$3,990
44Academy of Management Learning and EducationAcademy of Management · United States
3.67Q12.08 0.55 down from 2003715%—
3.65Q12.38 0.63 up from 200344——
46Human Resource Management JournalWiley · United Kingdom
3.61Q12.02 0.07 up from 20036713%$4,250
47Information Resources Management JournalIGI Global · United States
3.56Q11.88 0.43 up from 2003510%—
48Small Business EconomicsSpringer Science+Business Media · Netherlands
3.53Q11.23 0.40 down from 200314811%$3,090
49Journal of Business LogisticsWiley · United States
3.53Q11.45 0.57 down from 2003657%$3,570
50Decision SciencesWiley · United States
3.52Q12.30 0.59 up from 20038521%$3,090

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.

Rising journals

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.

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.