Journal rankings · indicator year 2016
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Field ranking · 2016
Business, Management and Accounting journal rankings 2016
699 ranked journals · Field in Social Sciences
Business, Management and Accounting has 699 ranked journals in 2016. The median OJR rose 0.10 on 2015 to 1.43, above the world average of 1.00; Q1 starts at OJR 2.87. The top three are Academy of Management Annals, Journal of Business Venturing, and Journal of Accounting and Economics.
Ranks and citation indicators: 2016. 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 2013–2015, the window the 2016 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 Sciences699 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 2015. This is OpenJournalRank’s own count, not Clarivate’s Journal Impact Factor. | Citable documents (articles, reviews and conference papers) published in 2013–2015, the window the 2016 OJR is computed on. A journal needs at least 30 to be ranked. | Share of the journal’s 2013–2015 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 2007 to 2016. | Compare |
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1Academy of Management AnnalsRoutledge · United States | 16.48Q1 | 10.31 3.77 down from 2015 | 87 | 9% | — | ||
2Journal of Business VenturingElsevier BV · Netherlands | 14.70Q1 | 6.56 2.30 down from 2015 | 106 | 41% | $4,130 | ||
3Journal of Accounting and EconomicsElsevier BV · Netherlands | 12.94Q1 | 5.12 0.80 down from 2015 | 122 | 11% | $4,170 | ||
4Journal of International Business StudiesPalgrave Macmillan · United Kingdom | 12.48Q1 | 8.63 2.16 up from 2015 | 176 | 49% | $4,790 | ||
5Academy of Management JournalAcademy of Management · United States | 11.02Q1 | 7.97 1.26 up from 2015 | 248 | 24% | — | ||
6Academy of Management ReviewAcademy of Management · United States | 11.00Q1 | 7.45 0.97 up from 2015 | 136 | 21% | — | ||
7Journal of MarketingSAGE Publishing · United Kingdom | 10.78Q1 | 6.87 0.33 down from 2015 | 136 | 17% | $5,400 | ||
8Academy of Management PerspectivesAcademy of Management · United States | 10.66Q1 | 5.69 0.51 down from 2015 | 119 | 21% | — | ||
9Entrepreneurship Theory and PracticeSAGE Publishing · United States | 10.20Q1 | 6.74 1.64 up from 2015 | 203 | 23% | $3,900 | ||
10Journal of Operations ManagementWiley · United States | 9.88Q1 | 6.45 0.65 up from 2015 | 140 | 29% | $3,520 | ||
11Strategic Management JournalWiley · United States | 9.68Q1 | 4.60 0.61 down from 2015 | 453 | 27% | $4,250 | ||
12Journal of Management StudiesWiley · United Kingdom | 9.11Q1 | 4.90 0.81 down from 2015 | 147 | 55% | $4,150 | ||
13Journal of Purchasing and Supply ManagementElsevier BV · United Kingdom | 8.80Q1 | 5.44 0.81 up from 2015 | 81 | 22% | $3,280 | ||
14Journal of the Academy of Marketing ScienceSpringer Science+Business Media · United States | 8.79Q1 | 7.64 2.70 up from 2015 | 140 | 40% | $4,790 | ||
15Journal of Accounting ResearchWiley · United Kingdom | 8.69Q1 | 4.72 1.00 up from 2015 | 94 | 24% | $4,420 | ||
16Strategic Entrepreneurship JournalWiley · United States | 8.62Q1 | 4.95 1.09 up from 2015 | 63 | 49% | $4,100 | ||
17Journal of Service ResearchSAGE Publishing · United States | 8.53Q1 | 6.72 2.28 up from 2015 | 106 | 20% | $3,900 | ||
18Long Range PlanningElsevier BV · United Kingdom | 8.53Q1 | 3.52 1.34 down from 2015 | 100 | 39% | $3,900 | ||
19Journal of ManagementSAGE Publishing · United States | 8.47Q1 | 5.88 0.39 down from 2015 | 271 | 41% | $3,900 | ||
20International Journal of Management ReviewsWiley · United Kingdom | 8.38Q1 | 6.14 0.43 down from 2015 | 80 | 43% | $4,220 | ||
21Organizational Research MethodsSAGE Publishing · United States | 8.26Q1 | 6.48 0.08 down from 2015 | 82 | 24% | $3,900 | ||
22Journal of service managementEmerald Publishing Limited · United Kingdom | 8.06Q1 | 4.23 0.37 down from 2015 | 106 | 24% | — | ||
23Journal of Supply Chain ManagementWiley · United Kingdom | 7.80Q1 | 3.97 1.14 down from 2015 | 113 | 21% | $3,700 | ||
24Small Business EconomicsSpringer Science+Business Media · Netherlands | 7.74Q1 | 4.41 1.01 up from 2015 | 226 | 45% | $3,090 | ||
25Strategic OrganizationSAGE Publishing · United Kingdom | 7.23Q1 | 2.76 2.26 down from 2015 | 66 | 46% | $3,900 | ||
26Entrepreneurship and Regional DevelopmentTaylor & Francis · United Kingdom | 7.12Q1 | 3.51 0.99 down from 2015 | 97 | 30% | — | ||
27Journal of Small Business ManagementWiley · United States | 7.09Q1 | 3.60 0.11 up from 2015 | 200 | 31% | $2,500 | ||
28Journal of World BusinessElsevier BV · United States | 7.06Q1 | 3.93 0.16 down from 2015 | 172 | 36% | $4,750 | ||
29International Small Business Journal Researching EntrepreneurshipSAGE Publishing · United Kingdom | 7.03Q1 | 4.22 1.17 up from 2015 | 135 | 53% | $3,900 | ||
30TechnovationElsevier BV · United Kingdom | 6.95Q1 | 4.84 1.03 up from 2015 | 182 | 18% | $3,890 | ||
31California Management ReviewSAGE Publishing · United States | 6.86Q1 | 4.88 1.63 up from 2015 | 93 | 24% | $3,900 | ||
32Organization StudiesSAGE Publishing · Germany | 6.84Q1 | 4.55 0.64 down from 2015 | 243 | 38% | $3,900 | ||
33Organization & EnvironmentSAGE Publishing · United States | 6.67Q1 | 3.98 1.14 down from 2015 | 74 | 29% | $3,900 | ||
34Journal of RetailingElsevier BV · United States | 6.63Q1 | 5.42 1.59 up from 2015 | 137 | 24% | $3,030 | ||
35Journal of International MarketingSAGE Publishing · United States | 6.51Q1 | 3.87 1.18 down from 2015 | 76 | 15% | $5,400 | ||
36Supply Chain Management An International JournalEmerald Publishing Limited · United Kingdom | 6.50Q1 | 5.52 0.48 up from 2015 | 150 | 45% | — | ||
37International Journal of Production EconomicsElsevier BV · Netherlands | 6.41Q1 | 5.22 0.43 up from 2015 | 988 | 33% | $4,420 | ||
38International Journal of Hospitality ManagementElsevier BV · United Kingdom | 6.31Q1 | 4.00 0.06 up from 2015 | 411 | 22% | $4,270 | ||
39British Journal of ManagementWiley · United Kingdom | 6.31Q1 | 3.80 0.57 up from 2015 | 142 | 48% | $3,900 | ||
40Journal of Organizational BehaviorWiley · United Kingdom | 6.25Q1 | 4.71 0.19 down from 2015 | 208 | 32% | $4,250 | ||
41Human Resource Management ReviewElsevier BV · United States | 6.22Q1 | 4.91 0.60 down from 2015 | 86 | 29% | $5,170 | ||
42Journal of International ManagementElsevier BV · Netherlands | 6.16Q1 | 3.08 1.21 down from 2015 | 77 | 40% | $4,020 | ||
43Journal of Management Information SystemsTaylor & Francis · United States | 6.09Q1 | 3.57 2.15 down from 2015 | 139 | 24% | — | ||
44International Business ReviewElsevier BV · United Kingdom | 6.07Q1 | 3.37 0.16 up from 2015 | 294 | 25% | $4,550 | ||
45The British Accounting ReviewElsevier BV · United Kingdom | 6.07Q1 | 3.24 0.63 up from 2015 | 94 | 55% | $3,770 | ||
46International Journal of Electronic CommerceTaylor & Francis · United States | 6.02Q1 | 3.51 0.69 up from 2015 | 65 | 21% | — | ||
47International Marketing ReviewEmerald Publishing Limited · United Kingdom | 6.00Q1 | 2.71 1.06 down from 2015 | 96 | 42% | — | ||
48International Journal of Operations & Production ManagementEmerald Publishing Limited · United Kingdom | 5.95Q1 | 4.39 0.05 down from 2015 | 194 | 39% | — | ||
49The Accounting ReviewAmerican Accounting Association · United States | 5.93Q1 | 2.77 0.18 up from 2015 | 262 | 6% | — | ||
50Organization ScienceInstitute for Operations Research and the Management Sciences · United States | 5.89Q1 | 3.60 0.19 down from 2015 | 280 | 24% | — |
Subfields of Business, Management and Accounting, compared.
- Strategy and Management199
- Organizational Behavior and Human Resource Management138
- Accounting136
- Management Information Systems83
- Marketing79
- Management of Technology and Innovation52
- Tourism, Leisure and Hospitality Management7
- Business and International Management5
- Industrial relations0
Journals
Citations made in 2016. Corpus-wide, 77.2% of core-journal articles and reviews published that year have at least one matched reference; the share varies by journal and field.
216 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 2013–2015, 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: 2016. Publication window: 2013–2015. How these summaries are calculated
- Ranked journals
- 699
- Window papers (baseline)
- 324,663 +17.1% from indicator year 2013
- Median OJR
- 1.426 +4.1% from indicator year 2013
- Rising journals (2025)
- 44Comparison-group list (44)
Window papers are the baseline paper population: citable papers (articles, reviews and conference papers) from 2013–2015 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.