Journal rankings · indicator year 2016
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Subfield ranking · 2016
Management Information Systems journal rankings 2016
83 ranked journals · Subfield in Business, Management and Accounting
Management Information Systems has 83 ranked journals in 2016. The median OJR fell 0.14 on 2015 to 0.71, below the world average of 1.00; Q1 starts at OJR 1.73. The top three are Accounting Auditing & Accountability Journal, The Journal of Strategic Information Systems, and Management Accounting Research.
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 of Business, Management and Accounting (9)
83 ranked journals
Filters
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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1Accounting Auditing & Accountability JournalEmerald Publishing Limited · United Kingdom | 5.56Q1 | 3.96 1.29 up from 2015 | 174 | 27% | — | ||
2The Journal of Strategic Information SystemsElsevier BV · Netherlands | 5.47Q1 | 4.28 0.46 down from 2015 | 66 | 8% | $4,160 | ||
3Management Accounting ResearchElsevier BV · United Kingdom | 4.82Q1 | 2.74 1.21 down from 2015 | 80 | 45% | $3,690 | ||
4Business & Information Systems EngineeringSpringer Nature · Germany | 4.23Q1 | 3.27 0.18 up from 2015 | 146 | 40% | $4,090 | ||
5Critical Perspectives on AccountingElsevier BV · United Kingdom | 3.52Q1 | 2.60 0.27 up from 2015 | 175 | 34% | $4,460 | ||
6Business Process Management JournalEmerald Publishing Limited · United Kingdom | 3.31Q1 | 2.24 0.72 down from 2015 | 146 | 13% | — | ||
7International Journal of Lean Six SigmaEmerald Publishing Limited · United Kingdom | 3.23Q1 | 2.57 0.66 up from 2015 | 64 | 10% | — | ||
8Manufacturing & Service Operations ManagementInstitute for Operations Research and the Management Sciences · United States | 2.98Q1 | 2.38 0.35 down from 2015 | 145 | 26% | — | ||
9Communications of the Association for Information SystemsAssociation for Information Systems · United States | 2.92Q1 | 2.17 0.04 up from 2015 | 225 | 75% | — | ||
10International Journal of Accounting Information SystemsElsevier BV · United States | 2.75Q1 | 1.71 0.83 down from 2015 | 51 | 24% | $4,130 | ||
11Information Systems and e-Business ManagementSpringer Science+Business Media · Germany | 2.63Q1 | 1.58 0.63 down from 2015 | 86 | 18% | $3,090 | ||
12Production and Operations ManagementWiley · United States | 2.58Q1 | 1.69 0.23 down from 2015 | 451 | 23% | $3,900 | ||
13Qualitative Research in Accounting & ManagementEmerald Publishing Limited · United Kingdom | 2.46Q1 | 1.41 0.26 up from 2015 | 58 | 14% | — | ||
14Journal of Management AnalyticsTaylor & Francis · United Kingdom | 2.37Q1 | 2.31 0.93 up from 2015 | 42 | 16% | — | ||
15Strategic Outsourcing An International JournalEmerald Publishing Limited · United Kingdom | 2.18Q1 | 2.00 0.70 up from 2015 | 39 | 7% | — | ||
16Decision SciencesWiley · United States | 2.06Q1 | 1.83 0.19 up from 2015 | 162 | 20% | $3,090 | ||
17The TQM JournalEmerald Publishing Limited · United Kingdom | 1.96Q1 | 1.58 0.33 up from 2015 | 155 | 7% | — | ||
18IEEE Engineering Management ReviewInstitute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers · United States | 1.87Q1 | 0.97 0.73 down from 2015 | 254 | 2% | $2,645 | ||
19International Journal of Quality & Reliability ManagementEmerald Publishing Limited · United Kingdom | 1.81Q1 | 1.60 0.30 up from 2015 | 177 | 16% | — | ||
20Journal of Management ControlSpringer Science+Business Media · Germany | 1.78Q1 | 0.76 0.64 down from 2015 | 64 | 46% | $3,190 | ||
21Total Quality Management & Business ExcellenceTaylor & Francis · United Kingdom | 1.73Q1 | 1.42 0.18 down from 2015 | 321 | 16% | — | ||
22Naval Research Logistics (NRL)Wiley · United States | 1.67Q2 | 1.38 0.22 up from 2015 | 140 | 27% | $3,700 | ||
23International Journal of Health Care Quality AssuranceEmerald Publishing Limited · United Kingdom | 1.59Q2 | 1.59 0.02 up from 2015 | 182 | 10% | — | ||
24Journal of Systems Science and Systems EngineeringSpringer Science+Business Media · China | 1.52Q2 | 1.00 0.73 down from 2015 | 81 | 30% | $3,890 | ||
25Accounting History ReviewTaylor & Francis · United Kingdom | 1.49Q2 | 1.38 0.53 up from 2015 | 50 | 19% | $3,175 | ||
26Information Systems ManagementTaylor & Francis · United States | 1.32Q2 | 1.01 0.08 down from 2015 | 145 | 14% | — | ||
27Queueing SystemsSpringer Science+Business Media · Netherlands | 1.30Q2 | 1.39 0.25 up from 2015 | 115 | 36% | $3,090 | ||
28Stochastic SystemsOAInstitute for Operations Research and the Management Sciences · United States | 1.22Q2 | 1.34 0.11 up from 2015 | 80 | 100% | — | ||
29Journal of Decision SystemTaylor & Francis · United Kingdom | 1.20Q2 | 1.30 0.08 down from 2015 | 78 | 70% | — | ||
30Pacific Asia journal of the Association for Information SystemsAssociation for Information Systems · United States | 1.20Q2 | 0.85 0.12 up from 2015 | 40 | 22% | — | ||
31Journal of Industrial and Management OptimizationOAAmerican Institute of Mathematical Sciences · United States | 1.20Q2 | 1.17 0.09 up from 2015 | 263 | 100% | — | ||
32Journal of Accounting & Organizational ChangeEmerald Publishing Limited · United Kingdom | 1.11Q2 | 0.96no change | 86 | 16% | — | ||
33Transportation JournalPenn State University Press · United States | 1.01Q2 | 1.08 0.34 up from 2015 | 101 | 3% | $2,940 | ||
34OPSEARCHSpringer Science+Business Media · India | 0.93Q2 | 0.73 0.17 down from 2015 | 124 | 0% | $3,290 | ||
35Journal of Enterprise TransformationTaylor & Francis · United States | 0.92Q2 | 1.00 0.34 up from 2015 | 42 | 17% | — | ||
36The South African Journal of Industrial EngineeringOAStellenbosch University · South Africa | 0.88Q2 | 0.92 0.39 up from 2015 | 151 | 100% | $67 | ||
37Accounting Historians JournalAcademy of Accounting Historians · United States | 0.81Q2 | 0.61 0.21 up from 2015 | 49 | 5% | — | ||
38Yugoslav journal of operations researchOAUniversity of Belgrade · Serbia | 0.79Q2 | 0.92 0.31 up from 2015 | 104 | 100% | — | ||
39International Journal of Process Management and BenchmarkingInderscience Publishers · United Kingdom | 0.75Q2 | 0.56 0.75 down from 2015 | 74 | 0% | — | ||
40International Journal of Services and Operations ManagementInderscience Publishers · United Kingdom | 0.75Q2 | 0.52 0.29 down from 2015 | 220 | 1% | — | ||
41Social and Environmental Accountability JournalRoutledge · United Kingdom | 0.72Q2 | 0.66 0.03 up from 2015 | 101 | 27% | — | ||
42International Journal of Mathematics in Operational ResearchInderscience Publishers · United Kingdom | 0.71Q2 | 0.53 0.28 down from 2015 | 111 | 1% | — | ||
43Paradigm A Management Research JournalSAGE Publishing · India | 0.71Q3 | 0.42 0.29 up from 2015 | 37 | 0% | $3,400 | ||
44Business Information ReviewSAGE Publishing · United States | 0.71Q3 | 0.47no change | 80 | 17% | $3,400 | ||
44International Journal of Operational ResearchInderscience Publishers · United Kingdom | 0.71Q3 | 0.58 0.18 down from 2015 | 218 | 4% | — | ||
46International Journal of Enterprise Information SystemsOAIGI Global · United States | 0.68Q3 | 0.58 0.74 down from 2015 | 75 | 8% | — | ||
47Journal of Systems IntegrationOACzech Society of Systems Integration · Czechia | 0.67Q3 | 0.50 0.65 down from 2015 | 40 | 100% | — | ||
48International Journal of Business Information SystemsInderscience Publishers · United Kingdom | 0.67Q3 | 0.99 0.15 down from 2015 | 221 | 4% | — | ||
| 0.66Q3 | 0.42 0.03 up from 2015 | 85 | 100% | — | |||
50The International Technology Management ReviewOAAtlantis Press · France | 0.64Q3 | 0.38 0.29 down from 2015 | 58 | 100% | — |
Subfields of Business, Management and Accounting, with Management Information Systems highlighted.
- 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.
45 additional Management Information Systems 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
- 83
- Window papers (baseline)
- 35,719 +17.3% from indicator year 2013
- Median OJR
- 0.71 -29.3% from indicator year 2013
- Rising journals (2025)
- 3
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 | 34 | 37 | 37 | 41 | 44 | 47 | 48 | 55 | 59 | 62 | 65 | 69 | 77 | 84 | 82 | 85 | 83 | 87 | 84 | 82 | 82 | 83 | 82 | 83 | 77 | 76 | |
| Window papers (baseline) | 10,407 | 11,161 | 12,022 | 13,228 | 14,582 | 16,284 | 18,177 | 20,248 | 22,053 | 23,610 | 24,969 | 26,424 | 28,643 | 30,445 | 32,564 | 34,174 | 35,719 | 36,323 | 37,898 | 40,140 | 44,090 | 46,764 | 48,862 | 48,436 | 51,699 | 62,635 | |
| Median OJR | 0.91 | 0.83 | 0.86 | 0.97 | 0.93 | 1.069 | 1.26 | 1.24 | 1.10 | 1.09 | 0.94 | 1.054 | 1.072 | 1.01 | 1.052 | 0.85 | 0.71 | 0.727 | 0.720 | 0.76 | 0.70 | 0.75 | 0.62 | 0.719 | 0.79 | 0.728 |
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.