Journal rankings · indicator year 2017
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Field ranking · 2017
Business, Management and Accounting journal rankings 2017
723 ranked journals · Field in Social Sciences
Business, Management and Accounting has 723 ranked journals in 2017. The median OJR fell 0.05 on 2016 to 1.37, above the world average of 1.00; Q1 starts at OJR 2.90. The top three are Academy of Management Annals, Journal of Marketing, and Journal of the Academy of Marketing Science.
Ranks and citation indicators: 2017. 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 2014–2016, the window the 2017 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 2016. This is OpenJournalRank’s own count, not Clarivate’s Journal Impact Factor. | Citable documents (articles, reviews and conference papers) published in 2014–2016, the window the 2017 OJR is computed on. A journal needs at least 30 to be ranked. | Share of the journal’s 2014–2016 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 2008 to 2017. | Compare |
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1Academy of Management AnnalsRoutledge · United States | 15.02Q1 | 11.29 0.98 up from 2016 | 87 | 33% | — | ||
2Journal of MarketingSAGE Publishing · United Kingdom | 12.52Q1 | 10.60 3.73 up from 2016 | 137 | 18% | $5,400 | ||
3Journal of the Academy of Marketing ScienceSpringer Science+Business Media · United States | 12.28Q1 | 9.83 2.19 up from 2016 | 137 | 35% | $4,790 | ||
4Journal of International Business StudiesPalgrave Macmillan · United Kingdom | 11.73Q1 | 7.17 1.46 down from 2016 | 172 | 47% | $4,790 | ||
5Academy of Management ReviewAcademy of Management · United States | 11.71Q1 | 7.74 0.29 up from 2016 | 140 | 34% | — | ||
6Academy of Management JournalAcademy of Management · United States | 11.56Q1 | 7.27 0.70 down from 2016 | 269 | 30% | — | ||
7Journal of Accounting and EconomicsElsevier BV · Netherlands | 10.42Q1 | 4.33 0.79 down from 2016 | 123 | 29% | $4,170 | ||
8Journal of Business VenturingElsevier BV · Netherlands | 10.29Q1 | 7.96 1.40 up from 2016 | 93 | 41% | $4,130 | ||
9Journal of Accounting ResearchWiley · United Kingdom | 10.07Q1 | 5.86 1.13 up from 2016 | 101 | 33% | $4,420 | ||
10California Management ReviewSAGE Publishing · United States | 10.04Q1 | 6.55 1.67 up from 2016 | 87 | 25% | $3,900 | ||
11Entrepreneurship Theory and PracticeSAGE Publishing · United States | 9.83Q1 | 6.19 0.55 down from 2016 | 147 | 29% | $3,900 | ||
12Journal of Operations ManagementWiley · United States | 9.76Q1 | 4.90 1.55 down from 2016 | 141 | 22% | $3,520 | ||
13Strategic Management JournalWiley · United States | 9.51Q1 | 5.20 0.59 up from 2016 | 372 | 43% | $4,250 | ||
14TechnovationElsevier BV · United Kingdom | 9.32Q1 | 4.36 0.48 down from 2016 | 185 | 28% | $3,890 | ||
15Academy of Management PerspectivesAcademy of Management · United States | 9.31Q1 | 4.51 1.18 down from 2016 | 105 | 19% | — | ||
16Journal of Management StudiesWiley · United Kingdom | 8.97Q1 | 6.04 1.14 up from 2016 | 148 | 38% | $4,150 | ||
17Journal of ManagementSAGE Publishing · United States | 8.66Q1 | 6.21 0.33 up from 2016 | 265 | 27% | $3,900 | ||
18Journal of Service ResearchSAGE Publishing · United States | 8.19Q1 | 6.59 0.13 down from 2016 | 99 | 36% | $3,900 | ||
19Organization & EnvironmentSAGE Publishing · United States | 8.05Q1 | 6.80 2.82 up from 2016 | 84 | 38% | $3,900 | ||
20International Journal of Management ReviewsWiley · United Kingdom | 7.93Q1 | 6.66 0.52 up from 2016 | 91 | 53% | $4,220 | ||
21International Small Business Journal Researching EntrepreneurshipSAGE Publishing · United Kingdom | 7.59Q1 | 5.32 1.10 up from 2016 | 122 | 42% | $3,900 | ||
22Journal of RetailingElsevier BV · United States | 7.58Q1 | 7.70 2.28 up from 2016 | 129 | 18% | $3,030 | ||
23Strategic Entrepreneurship JournalWiley · United States | 7.48Q1 | 4.71 0.24 down from 2016 | 71 | 33% | $4,100 | ||
24Journal of World BusinessElsevier BV · United States | 7.46Q1 | 4.80 0.87 up from 2016 | 193 | 35% | $4,750 | ||
25Organizational Research MethodsSAGE Publishing · United States | 7.17Q1 | 5.24 1.23 down from 2016 | 110 | 32% | $3,900 | ||
26The Accounting ReviewAmerican Accounting Association · United States | 6.94Q1 | 4.39 1.62 up from 2016 | 247 | 12% | — | ||
27Supply Chain Management An International JournalEmerald Publishing Limited · United Kingdom | 6.91Q1 | 5.40 0.12 down from 2016 | 151 | 43% | — | ||
28Journal of International MarketingSAGE Publishing · United States | 6.80Q1 | 5.98 2.11 up from 2016 | 72 | 18% | $5,400 | ||
29Journal of Open Innovation Technology Market and ComplexityOASpringer Science+Business Media · Switzerland | 6.69Q1 | 5.22 0.27 up from 2016 | 45 | 100% | $1,250 | ||
30Small Business EconomicsSpringer Science+Business Media · Netherlands | 6.65Q1 | 4.38 0.03 down from 2016 | 270 | 46% | $3,090 | ||
31Journal of Organizational BehaviorWiley · United Kingdom | 6.63Q1 | 5.10 0.39 up from 2016 | 224 | 37% | $4,250 | ||
32Journal of Purchasing and Supply ManagementElsevier BV · United Kingdom | 6.49Q1 | 4.67 0.77 down from 2016 | 93 | 30% | $3,280 | ||
33Journal of service managementEmerald Publishing Limited · United Kingdom | 6.42Q1 | 5.68 1.46 up from 2016 | 111 | 40% | — | ||
34Journal of Enterprise Information ManagementEmerald Publishing Limited · United Kingdom | 6.40Q1 | 5.36 1.82 up from 2016 | 125 | 9% | — | ||
35Accounting Auditing & Accountability JournalEmerald Publishing Limited · United Kingdom | 6.39Q1 | 3.88 0.08 down from 2016 | 180 | 57% | — | ||
36Auditing A Journal of Practice & TheoryAmerican Accounting Association · United States | 6.30Q1 | 2.78 0.40 up from 2016 | 112 | 9% | — | ||
37Family Business ReviewSAGE Publishing · United Kingdom | 6.28Q1 | 5.39 1.33 up from 2016 | 47 | 28% | $3,900 | ||
38International Journal of Production EconomicsElsevier BV · Netherlands | 6.23Q1 | 5.13 0.10 down from 2016 | 956 | 28% | $4,420 | ||
39Entrepreneurship and Regional DevelopmentTaylor & Francis · United Kingdom | 6.20Q1 | 3.49 0.02 down from 2016 | 114 | 61% | — | ||
40International Journal of Hospitality ManagementElsevier BV · United Kingdom | 6.06Q1 | 4.56 0.57 up from 2016 | 396 | 24% | $4,270 | ||
41Long Range PlanningElsevier BV · United Kingdom | 5.97Q1 | 3.63 0.11 up from 2016 | 132 | 32% | $3,900 | ||
42The Journal of Strategic Information SystemsElsevier BV · Netherlands | 5.96Q1 | 3.97 0.31 down from 2016 | 80 | 20% | $4,160 | ||
43Corporate Governance An International ReviewWiley · United Kingdom | 5.85Q1 | 3.61 0.73 up from 2016 | 127 | 38% | $4,030 | ||
44Journal of Intellectual CapitalEmerald Publishing Limited · United Kingdom | 5.84Q1 | 6.11 3.14 up from 2016 | 97 | 27% | — | ||
45International Journal of Operations & Production ManagementEmerald Publishing Limited · United Kingdom | 5.82Q1 | 4.82 0.43 up from 2016 | 193 | 54% | — | ||
46International Journal of Electronic CommerceTaylor & Francis · United States | 5.81Q1 | 2.85 0.67 down from 2016 | 61 | 50% | — | ||
47Organization StudiesSAGE Publishing · Germany | 5.79Q1 | 4.13 0.42 down from 2016 | 254 | 48% | $3,900 | ||
48International Journal of Physical Distribution & Logistics ManagementEmerald Publishing Limited | 5.78Q1 | 6.52 3.16 up from 2016 | 131 | 32% | — | ||
49Organization ScienceInstitute for Operations Research and the Management Sciences · United States | 5.76Q1 | 3.79 0.19 up from 2016 | 259 | 22% | — | ||
50The British Accounting ReviewElsevier BV · United Kingdom | 5.75Q1 | 2.72 0.53 down from 2016 | 95 | 67% | $3,770 |
Subfields of Business, Management and Accounting, compared.
- Strategy and Management204
- Accounting142
- Organizational Behavior and Human Resource Management140
- Management Information Systems87
- Marketing82
- Management of Technology and Innovation56
- Tourism, Leisure and Hospitality Management7
- Business and International Management5
- Industrial relations0
Journals
Citations made in 2017. Corpus-wide, 77.7% of core-journal articles and reviews published that year have at least one matched reference; the share varies by journal and field.
202 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 2014–2016, 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: 2017. Publication window: 2014–2016. How these summaries are calculated
- Ranked journals
- 723
- Window papers (baseline)
- 331,972 +12.1% from indicator year 2014
- Median OJR
- 1.374 -3.3% from indicator year 2014
- Rising journals (2025)
- 44Comparison-group list (44)
Window papers are the baseline paper population: citable papers (articles, reviews and conference papers) from 2014–2016 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.