Journal rankings · indicator year 2012
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Field ranking · 2012
Business, Management and Accounting journal rankings 2012
603 ranked journals · Field in Social Sciences
Business, Management and Accounting has 603 ranked journals in 2012. Its median journal scores above the world average: OJR 1.39 against 1.00, down 0.01 on 2011. A journal needs OJR 3.09 to reach Q1. The top three are Academy of Management Journal, Long Range Planning, and Journal of Accounting and Economics.
Ranks and citation indicators: 2012. 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 2009–2011, the window the 2012 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)
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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 2011. This is OpenJournalRank’s own count, not Clarivate’s Journal Impact Factor. | Citable documents (articles, reviews and conference papers) published in 2009–2011, the window the 2012 OJR is computed on. A journal needs at least 30 to be ranked. | Share of the journal’s 2009–2011 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 2003 to 2012. | Compare |
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1Academy of Management JournalAcademy of Management · United States | 16.42Q1 | 9.86 0.18 up from 2011 | 207 | 19% | — | ||
2Long Range PlanningElsevier BV · United Kingdom | 13.27Q1 | 5.92 0.58 down from 2011 | 107 | 11% | $3,900 | ||
3Journal of Accounting and EconomicsElsevier BV · Netherlands | 12.73Q1 | 5.64 0.87 down from 2011 | 108 | 20% | $4,170 | ||
4Strategic Management JournalWiley · United States | 12.45Q1 | 5.33 0.83 down from 2011 | 236 | 15% | $4,250 | ||
5Journal of International Business StudiesPalgrave Macmillan · United Kingdom | 12.19Q1 | 5.79 0.72 down from 2011 | 211 | 21% | $4,790 | ||
6Academy of Management ReviewAcademy of Management · United States | 11.48Q1 | 7.68 1.03 up from 2011 | 225 | 4% | — | ||
7Academy of Management AnnalsRoutledge · United States | 11.10Q1 | 8.68 1.98 up from 2011 | 83 | 5% | — | ||
8Journal of Operations ManagementWiley · United States | 10.92Q1 | 6.43 1.12 up from 2011 | 122 | 13% | $3,520 | ||
9Journal of ManagementSAGE Publishing · United States | 10.71Q1 | 6.74 0.44 up from 2011 | 244 | 18% | $3,900 | ||
10Organization ScienceInstitute for Operations Research and the Management Sciences · United States | 9.97Q1 | 4.79 0.31 down from 2011 | 306 | 19% | — | ||
11Journal of Management StudiesWiley · United Kingdom | 9.68Q1 | 5.23 0.02 down from 2011 | 234 | 29% | $4,150 | ||
12International Journal of Management ReviewsWiley · United Kingdom | 9.65Q1 | 6.95 1.48 down from 2011 | 81 | 21% | $4,220 | ||
13Entrepreneurship Theory and PracticeSAGE Publishing · United States | 9.51Q1 | 4.90 0.79 down from 2011 | 216 | 3% | $3,900 | ||
14Journal of Business VenturingElsevier BV · Netherlands | 9.14Q1 | 5.48 1.29 up from 2011 | 108 | 19% | $4,130 | ||
15R and D ManagementWiley · United Kingdom | 9.03Q1 | 4.36 0.79 down from 2011 | 119 | 10% | $3,620 | ||
16TechnovationElsevier BV · United Kingdom | 8.66Q1 | 4.59 0.54 down from 2011 | 201 | 9% | $3,890 | ||
17Journal of Small Business ManagementWiley · United States | 8.42Q1 | 3.87 0.45 down from 2011 | 84 | 11% | $2,500 | ||
18Accounting Organizations and SocietyElsevier BV · Netherlands | 8.06Q1 | 3.12 2.93 down from 2011 | 120 | 8% | $4,040 | ||
19Journal of International MarketingSAGE Publishing · United States | 7.86Q1 | 3.10 1.84 down from 2011 | 84 | 0% | $5,400 | ||
20The Accounting ReviewAmerican Accounting Association · United States | 7.33Q1 | 4.19 0.78 up from 2011 | 261 | 6% | — | ||
21Management DecisionEmerald Publishing Limited · United Kingdom | 7.09Q1 | 5.47 2.67 up from 2011 | 311 | 10% | — | ||
22Journal of Service ResearchSAGE Publishing · United States | 7.01Q1 | 5.58 0.13 up from 2011 | 102 | 10% | $3,900 | ||
23Journal of the Academy of Marketing ScienceSpringer Science+Business Media · United States | 6.95Q1 | 4.53 0.12 up from 2011 | 173 | 13% | $4,790 | ||
24International Entrepreneurship and Management JournalSpringer Science+Business Media · United States | 6.70Q1 | 2.79 1.26 down from 2011 | 107 | 14% | $3,190 | ||
25Journal of World BusinessElsevier BV · United States | 6.61Q1 | 2.73 0.21 down from 2011 | 163 | 14% | $4,750 | ||
26Journal of Intellectual CapitalEmerald Publishing Limited · United Kingdom | 6.60Q1 | 4.05 1.40 up from 2011 | 96 | 6% | — | ||
27Organizational Research MethodsSAGE Publishing · United States | 6.60Q1 | 5.78 1.88 up from 2011 | 91 | 10% | $3,900 | ||
28Journal of Management Information SystemsTaylor & Francis · United States | 6.60Q1 | 3.58 0.85 down from 2011 | 139 | 4% | — | ||
29Journal of Organizational BehaviorWiley · United Kingdom | 6.52Q1 | 4.68 0.11 up from 2011 | 208 | 14% | $4,250 | ||
30Journal of MarketingSAGE Publishing · United Kingdom | 6.41Q1 | 3.11 1.42 down from 2011 | 451 | 9% | $5,400 | ||
31Supply Chain Management An International JournalEmerald Publishing Limited · United Kingdom | 6.35Q1 | 4.33 1.19 up from 2011 | 137 | 17% | — | ||
32International Journal of Operations & Production ManagementEmerald Publishing Limited · United Kingdom | 6.29Q1 | 3.50 0.38 down from 2011 | 169 | 22% | — | ||
33Academy of Management PerspectivesAcademy of Management · United States | 6.28Q1 | 2.94 0.23 down from 2011 | 239 | 5% | — | ||
34Corporate Social Responsibility and Environmental ManagementWiley · United Kingdom | 6.27Q1 | 3.91 1.20 up from 2011 | 106 | 18% | $4,100 | ||
35Journal of Product Innovation ManagementWiley · United States | 6.23Q1 | 3.68 0.26 up from 2011 | 243 | 21% | $3,400 | ||
36Strategic Entrepreneurship JournalWiley · United States | 6.15Q1 | 2.50 1.45 down from 2011 | 61 | 12% | $4,100 | ||
37Human RelationsSAGE Publishing · United Kingdom | 6.11Q1 | 3.97 0.80 up from 2011 | 229 | 15% | $3,900 | ||
38Corporate Governance An International ReviewWiley · United Kingdom | 6.09Q1 | 2.75 0.22 down from 2011 | 159 | 28% | $4,030 | ||
39Organization StudiesSAGE Publishing · Germany | 6.08Q1 | 3.30 0.66 down from 2011 | 260 | 20% | $3,900 | ||
40International Journal of Physical Distribution & Logistics ManagementEmerald Publishing Limited | 6.08Q1 | 4.32 1.35 up from 2011 | 135 | 14% | — | ||
41European Journal of Innovation ManagementEmerald Publishing Limited · United Kingdom | 5.87Q1 | 3.22 0.53 up from 2011 | 74 | 12% | — | ||
42California Management ReviewSAGE Publishing · United States | 5.86Q1 | 3.10 0.11 up from 2011 | 104 | 15% | $3,900 | ||
43Journal of International ManagementElsevier BV · Netherlands | 5.78Q1 | 4.09 0.21 up from 2011 | 104 | 12% | $4,020 | ||
44Journal of RetailingElsevier BV · United States | 5.78Q1 | 2.32 2.18 down from 2011 | 159 | 8% | $3,030 | ||
45The Journal of Strategic Information SystemsElsevier BV · Netherlands | 5.78Q1 | 4.18 0.84 up from 2011 | 95 | 8% | $4,160 | ||
46Entrepreneurship and Regional DevelopmentTaylor & Francis · United Kingdom | 5.77Q1 | 2.96 0.21 up from 2011 | 115 | 22% | — | ||
47Journal of service managementEmerald Publishing Limited · United Kingdom | 5.76Q1 | 4.55 0.95 up from 2011 | 109 | 16% | — | ||
48Journal of International Accounting Auditing and TaxationElsevier BV · United States | 5.74Q1 | 3.76 1.67 up from 2011 | 30 | 13% | $3,490 | ||
49British Journal of ManagementWiley · United Kingdom | 5.69Q1 | 2.79 0.54 down from 2011 | 195 | 28% | $3,900 | ||
50Group & Organization ManagementSAGE Publishing · United States | 5.69Q1 | 4.44 0.34 down from 2011 | 79 | 11% | $3,900 |
Subfields of Business, Management and Accounting, compared.
- Strategy and Management167
- Organizational Behavior and Human Resource Management120
- Accounting117
- Management Information Systems77
- Marketing73
- Management of Technology and Innovation38
- Tourism, Leisure and Hospitality Management8
- Business and International Management3
- Industrial relations0
Journals
Citations made in 2012. Corpus-wide, 75.7% of core-journal articles and reviews published that year have at least one matched reference; the share varies by journal and field.
219 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 2009–2011, 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: 2012. Publication window: 2009–2011. How these summaries are calculated
- Ranked journals
- 603
- Window papers (baseline)
- 260,265 +27.4% from indicator year 2009
- Median OJR
- 1.388 +2.9% from indicator year 2009
- Rising journals (2025)
- 44Comparison-group list (44)
Window papers are the baseline paper population: citable papers (articles, reviews and conference papers) from 2009–2011 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.