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Journal rankings · indicator year 2015

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Management Information Systems journal rankings 2015

85 ranked journals · Subfield in Business, Management and Accounting

Management Information Systems has 85 ranked journals in 2015. The median OJR fell 0.20 on 2014 to 0.85, below the world average of 1.00; Q1 starts at OJR 1.75. The top three are The Journal of Strategic Information Systems, Management Accounting Research, and Business & Information Systems Engineering.

Ranks and citation indicators: 2015. 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 2012–2014, the window the 2015 score is computed on.

85
13% of Business, Management and Accounting
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.

0.85-0.20 vs 2014
This subfieldAll 0.88World 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.

22%
All fields: 29%
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.

$3,400
Median positive listed APC: $3,400 among 21 journals. Another 1 lists $0; 63 have no known price. All fields: $3,390.

Subfields of Business, Management and Accounting (9)

85 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.

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Management Information Systems ranking, 2015

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 2014. This is OpenJournalRank’s own count, not Clarivate’s Journal Impact Factor.

Citable documents (articles, reviews and conference papers) published in 2012–2014, the window the 2015 OJR is computed on. A journal needs at least 30 to be ranked.

Share of the journal’s 2012–2014 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 2006 to 2015.

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6.91Q14.73 0.07 up from 20147618%$4,160
2Management Accounting ResearchElsevier BV · United Kingdom
5.07Q13.94 1.07 up from 20147322%$3,690
4.10Q13.09 0.80 up from 201413627%$4,090
4.10Q12.54 0.46 down from 20146430%$4,130
5Business Process Management JournalEmerald Publishing Limited · United Kingdom
3.88Q12.96 0.07 down from 20141338%—
6Communications of the Association for Information SystemsAssociation for Information Systems · United States
3.74Q12.13 0.10 down from 201418098%—
7Accounting Auditing & Accountability JournalEmerald Publishing Limited · United Kingdom
3.36Q12.67 0.57 up from 201418130%—
8Critical Perspectives on AccountingElsevier BV · United Kingdom
3.34Q12.33 0.38 up from 201418334%$4,460
9Decision SciencesWiley · United States
3.30Q11.64 0.23 down from 201414513%$3,090
10Qualitative Research in Accounting & ManagementEmerald Publishing Limited · United Kingdom
2.97Q11.15 2.51 down from 20146720%—
11Manufacturing & Service Operations ManagementInstitute for Operations Research and the Management Sciences · United States
2.94Q12.73 0.70 up from 201414831%—
12Production and Operations ManagementWiley · United States
2.50Q11.93 0.30 up from 201441011%$3,900
13Information Systems and e-Business ManagementSpringer Science+Business Media · Germany
2.45Q12.21 0.92 up from 20148019%$3,090
14International Journal of Lean Six SigmaEmerald Publishing Limited · United Kingdom
2.36Q11.91 0.27 down from 20146114%—
15IEEE Engineering Management ReviewInstitute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers · United States
2.34Q11.69 0.07 up from 20142247%$2,645
16Logistics ResearchOABundesvereinigung Logistik · Germany
2.05Q11.47 0.34 down from 201450100%—
17Journal of Systems Science and Systems EngineeringSpringer Science+Business Media · China
2.02Q11.73 0.59 up from 20147513%$3,890
18Information Systems ManagementTaylor & Francis · United States
1.95Q11.09 0.25 down from 20141445%—
19International Journal of Quality & Reliability ManagementEmerald Publishing Limited · United Kingdom
1.91Q11.30 0.55 down from 201416211%—
20Total Quality Management & Business ExcellenceTaylor & Francis · United Kingdom
1.85Q11.60 0.73 down from 201436716%—
21Journal of Management ControlSpringer Science+Business Media · Germany
1.82Q11.40 0.12 down from 20145021%$3,190
22The TQM JournalEmerald Publishing Limited · United Kingdom
1.75Q11.26 0.48 down from 20141308%—
23Journal of Accounting & Organizational ChangeEmerald Publishing Limited · United Kingdom
1.59Q20.97 0.11 down from 2014960%—
24Naval Research Logistics (NRL)Wiley · United States
1.37Q21.17 0.24 down from 201414111%$3,700
25Stochastic SystemsOAInstitute for Operations Research and the Management Sciences · United States
1.36Q21.23 0.31 up from 201480100%—
26Queueing SystemsSpringer Science+Business Media · Netherlands
1.36Q21.14 0.35 down from 201413739%$3,090
27Strategic Outsourcing An International JournalEmerald Publishing Limited · United Kingdom
1.32Q21.30 0.12 down from 20144125%—
28International Journal of Health Care Quality AssuranceEmerald Publishing Limited · United Kingdom
1.24Q21.56 0.03 down from 201417314%—
1.22Q21.32 0.95 down from 2014630%—
1.18Q20.85 0.04 up from 20143413%—
31Journal of Decision SystemTaylor & Francis · United Kingdom
1.13Q21.38 0.58 up from 20148028%—
32Information Resources Management JournalIGI Global · United States
0.99Q20.78 0.03 up from 2014510%—
33Journal of Industrial and Management OptimizationOAAmerican Institute of Mathematical Sciences · United States
0.96Q21.08 0.03 down from 201423932%—
34International Journal of Mathematics in Operational ResearchInderscience Publishers · United Kingdom
0.96Q20.81 0.20 down from 20141138%—
35Transportation JournalPenn State University Press · United States
0.95Q20.74 0.06 up from 20141023%$2,940
36Int. J. Electron. Bus. Manag.Publisher not listed
0.94Q20.21 0.82 down from 2014610%—
37International Journal of Services and Operations ManagementInderscience Publishers · United Kingdom
0.94Q20.82 0.54 down from 20142255%—
38Accounting History ReviewTaylor & Francis · United Kingdom
0.93Q20.84 0.19 up from 20144925%$3,175
0.91Q20.63 0.10 down from 2014987%—
40Accounting Historians JournalAcademy of Accounting Historians · United States
0.88Q20.40 0.26 up from 2014425%—
41Pacific Asia journal of the Association for Information SystemsAssociation for Information Systems · United States
0.87Q20.73 0.16 down from 2014406%—
42OPSEARCHSpringer Science+Business Media · India
0.87Q20.89 0.26 up from 20141320%$3,290
43Accounting HistorySAGE Publishing · United Kingdom
0.85Q20.89 0.45 up from 20141037%$3,650
44Stochastic ModelsTaylor & Francis · United States
0.85Q30.68 0.09 down from 20147932%—
45International Journal of Advanced Operations ManagementInderscience Publishers · United Kingdom
0.84Q30.82 0.25 up from 2014550%—
46Journal of Enterprise TransformationTaylor & Francis · United States
0.82Q30.66 0.48 down from 20144623%—
47Yugoslav journal of operations researchOAUniversity of Belgrade · Serbia
0.76Q30.60 0.02 up from 2014110100%—
48International Journal of Operational ResearchInderscience Publishers · United Kingdom
0.76Q30.76 0.30 down from 20142283%—
49International Journal of Business ExcellenceInderscience Publishers · United Kingdom
0.75Q30.56 0.35 down from 20141203%—
50International Journal of Management and Decision MakingInderscience Publishers · United Kingdom
0.74Q30.69 0.38 down from 20144411%—

Citations made in 2015. Corpus-wide, 78.1% of core-journal articles and reviews published that year have at least one matched reference; the share varies by journal and field.

44 additional Management Information Systems journals with metrics are unranked under this release’s eligibility rules: a journal needs at least 30 citable documents in 2012–2014, 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: 2015. Publication window: 2012–2014. How these summaries are calculated

Ranked journals
85
Window papers (baseline)
34,174 +19.3% from indicator year 2012
Median OJR
0.85 -20.5% from indicator year 2012
Rising journals (2025)
3

Window papers are the baseline paper population: citable papers (articles, reviews and conference papers) from 2012–2014 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 journals3437374144474855596265697784828583878482828382837776
Window papers (baseline)10,40711,16112,02213,22814,58216,28418,17720,24822,05323,61024,96926,42428,64330,44532,56434,17435,71936,32337,89840,14044,09046,76448,86248,43651,69962,635
Median OJR0.910.830.860.970.931.0691.261.241.101.090.941.0541.0721.011.0520.850.710.7270.7200.760.700.750.620.7190.790.728

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.