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Journal rankings · indicator year 2017

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Organizational Behavior and Human Resource Management journal rankings 2017

140 ranked journals · Subfield in Business, Management and Accounting

Organizational Behavior and Human Resource Management has 140 ranked journals in 2017. The median OJR fell 0.11 on 2016 to 1.59, above the world average of 1.00; Q1 starts at OJR 3.21. The top three are Academy of Management Annals, Academy of Management Review, and Academy of Management Journal.

Ranks and citation indicators: 2017. 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 2014–2016, the window the 2017 score is computed on.

140
19% 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.

1.59-0.11 vs 2016
This subfieldAll 0.84World 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.

16%
All fields: 32%
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.

$3,650
Median positive listed APC: $3,650 among 55 journals. 85 have no known price. All fields: $3,350.

Subfields of Business, Management and Accounting (9)

140 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.

They are computed within the list on screen, so a journal can be Q1 in its subfield and Q2 in the global ranking.

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Organizational Behavior and Human Resource Management ranking, 2017

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 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.

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1Academy of Management AnnalsRoutledge · United States
15.02Q111.29 0.98 up from 20168733%—
2Academy of Management ReviewAcademy of Management · United States
11.71Q17.74 0.29 up from 201614034%—
3Academy of Management JournalAcademy of Management · United States
11.56Q17.27 0.70 down from 201626930%—
4Journal of Management StudiesWiley · United Kingdom
8.97Q16.04 1.14 up from 201614838%$4,150
5Journal of ManagementSAGE Publishing · United States
8.66Q16.21 0.33 up from 201626527%$3,900
6Organizational Research MethodsSAGE Publishing · United States
7.17Q15.24 1.23 down from 201611032%$3,900
7Journal of Organizational BehaviorWiley · United Kingdom
6.63Q15.10 0.39 up from 201622437%$4,250
8Family Business ReviewSAGE Publishing · United Kingdom
6.28Q15.39 1.33 up from 20164728%$3,900
6.06Q14.56 0.57 up from 201639624%$4,270
10Organization StudiesSAGE Publishing · Germany
5.79Q14.13 0.42 down from 201625448%$3,900
11European Management JournalElsevier BV · Germany
5.62Q13.49 0.24 down from 201618830%$2,160
12Human RelationsSAGE Publishing · United Kingdom
5.41Q13.94 0.51 up from 201627257%$3,900
13Human Resource Management ReviewElsevier BV · United States
5.31Q15.20 0.28 up from 201610623%$5,170
14Human Resource Management JournalWiley · United Kingdom
5.23Q13.95 0.35 up from 20169049%$4,250
15Journal of Family Business StrategyElsevier BV · Netherlands
5.21Q14.65 0.69 up from 20168416%$3,730
16Organizational Psychology ReviewSAGE Publishing · United Kingdom
5.06Q15.78 2.48 up from 20164233%$3,900
5.00Q14.52 0.32 up from 201611041%$3,840
18Journal of Vocational BehaviorElsevier BV · United States
4.79Q14.77 0.37 up from 201627031%$4,690
19OrganizationSAGE Publishing · United Kingdom
4.55Q13.20 0.25 up from 201611845%$3,900
20Journal of Professions and OrganizationOxford University Press · United Kingdom
4.18Q14.64 1.03 down from 20163824%$2,976
21Human Resource ManagementWiley · United States
4.09Q13.39 0.70 up from 201622422%$4,150
22Career Development InternationalEmerald Publishing Limited · United Kingdom
3.87Q13.09 0.80 up from 201612423%—
23Journal of Managerial PsychologyEmerald Publishing Limited · United Kingdom
3.83Q12.95 0.24 up from 201620621%—
24European Journal of Work and Organizational PsychologyTaylor & Francis · United Kingdom
3.67Q13.47 0.56 up from 201614840%—
25Group & Organization ManagementSAGE Publishing · United States
3.65Q12.68 0.09 up from 201610840%$3,900
26Journal of Marketing for HIGHER EDUCATIONTaylor & Francis · United States
3.56Q12.00 1.25 down from 20164744%—
27Academy of Management Learning and EducationAcademy of Management · United States
3.52Q13.01 0.76 up from 201615321%—
28Journal of Humanitarian Logistics and Supply Chain ManagementOAEmerald Publishing Limited · United Kingdom
3.50Q13.21 0.57 up from 20164819%—
3.49Q12.43 0.15 down from 201655745%—
30Management Communication QuarterlySAGE Publishing · United States
3.48Q12.06 0.24 down from 20161073%$3,650
31Personnel ReviewEmerald Publishing Limited · United Kingdom
3.43Q12.45 0.18 down from 201618630%—
32Applied PsychologyWiley · United Kingdom
3.32Q12.65 1.46 up from 20167136%$3,840
33International Studies of Management and OrganizationTaylor & Francis · United States
3.31Q11.60 0.17 down from 20166323%—
34The Journal of Applied Behavioral ScienceSAGE Publishing · United States
3.30Q12.60 0.13 down from 20166517%$3,650
35Journal of Business and PsychologySpringer Science+Business Media · United States
3.21Q12.08 0.20 down from 201613718%$3,090
36Human Resource Development QuarterlyWiley · United States
3.11Q23.08 0.18 down from 20167119%$3,700
37Employee RelationsEmerald Publishing Limited · United Kingdom
3.07Q22.77 0.83 up from 201612437%—
38Journal of Organizational Change ManagementEmerald Publishing Limited · United Kingdom
3.01Q22.54 1.09 up from 201620027%—
39Personnel PsychologyWiley · United Kingdom
2.92Q22.75 1.17 up from 201614219%$3,400
2.90Q210.31 2.22 down from 20166445%—
41Public Personnel ManagementSAGE Publishing · United States
2.87Q22.03 0.04 up from 2016764%$3,650
42Journal of Service Theory and PracticeEmerald Publishing Limited · United Kingdom
2.84Q22.51 0.91 up from 20168220%—
43LeadershipSAGE Publishing · United Kingdom
2.78Q21.27 0.67 down from 201613631%$3,650
44Management Research ReviewEmerald Publishing Limited · United Kingdom
2.72Q22.14 0.45 up from 201618213%—
45Journal of Leadership & Organizational StudiesSAGE Publishing · United States
2.71Q22.07 0.75 down from 20161018%$3,900
46Scandinavian Journal of ManagementElsevier BV · United Kingdom
2.70Q22.26 0.39 up from 20169232%$3,190
47European Management ReviewWiley · United Kingdom
2.70Q21.52 0.66 down from 20166943%$3,350
48Journal of Organizational Effectiveness People and PerformanceEmerald Publishing Limited · United Kingdom
2.69Q22.74 1.14 up from 20166245%—
49Baltic Journal of ManagementEmerald Publishing Limited · United Kingdom
2.68Q21.87 0.21 up from 20167118%—
50Journal of Management InquirySAGE Publishing · United States
2.65Q22.11 0.16 up from 201613627%$3,650

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.

24 additional Organizational Behavior and Human Resource Management 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.

Rising journals

At a glance

Indicator year: 2017. Publication window: 2014–2016. How these summaries are calculated

Ranked journals
140
Window papers (baseline)
49,017 +2.2% from indicator year 2014
Median OJR
1.59 -10.0% from indicator year 2014
Rising journals (2025)
8

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.

Category by indicator year
MeasureYear series20002001200220032004200520062007200820092010201120122013201420152016201720182019202020212022202320242025
Ranked journals7476777984889496101105111113120124128131138140142141139137141140140136
Window papers (baseline)12,54713,93415,49517,46819,43421,61824,01826,92330,11433,35136,62639,46043,43345,53147,94848,82849,70449,01748,14648,66951,03255,12758,55860,17761,59465,848
Median OJR0.95220.95230.971.161.291.411.561.731.6911.721.861.6851.851.8311.761.621.701.591.711.601.751.791.771.8301.801.88

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.