Journal rankings · indicator year 2018
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Subfield ranking · 2018
Information Systems and Management journal rankings 2018
35 ranked journals · Subfield in Decision Sciences
Information Systems and Management has 35 ranked journals in 2018. The median OJR rose 0.16 on 2017 to 0.94, below the world average of 1.00; Q1 starts at OJR 1.16. The top three are Journal of Business Ethics, Business Ethics A European Review, and Journal of Science and Technology Policy Management.
Ranks and citation indicators: 2018. 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 2015–2017, the window the 2018 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 Decision Sciences (4)
35 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 2017. This is OpenJournalRank’s own count, not Clarivate’s Journal Impact Factor. | Citable documents (articles, reviews and conference papers) published in 2015–2017, the window the 2018 OJR is computed on. A journal needs at least 30 to be ranked. | Share of the journal’s 2015–2017 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 2009 to 2018. | Compare |
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1Journal of Business EthicsSpringer Science+Business Media · Netherlands | 3.87Q1 | 2.58 0.13 up from 2017 | 1,196 | 35% | $3,790 | ||
2Business Ethics A European ReviewWiley · United States | 3.61Q1 | 4.63 0.80 up from 2017 | 84 | 30% | $3,800 | ||
3Journal of Science and Technology Policy ManagementEmerald Publishing Limited · United Kingdom | 2.88Q1 | 2.78 0.59 up from 2017 | 64 | 5% | — | ||
4Journal of Systems and Information TechnologyEmerald Publishing Limited · United Kingdom | 2.17Q1 | 1.63 0.22 down from 2017 | 52 | 23% | — | ||
5International Journal of Mobile CommunicationsInderscience Publishers · United Kingdom | 1.47Q1 | 0.99 0.55 down from 2017 | 154 | 4% | — | ||
6Journal of Information Systems and Technology ManagementOAUniversity of São Paulo · Brazil | 1.44Q1 | 1.68 0.83 up from 2017 | 82 | 100% | — | ||
7Asian Journal of Business EthicsSpringer Science+Business Media · Netherlands | 1.35Q1 | 0.73 0.27 up from 2017 | 43 | — | $3,390 | ||
8Revista de AdministraçãoOAUniversity of São Paulo · Brazil | 1.25Q1 | 1.20 0.67 up from 2017 | 192 | 100% | — | ||
9RAI revista de administração e inovaçãoOAUniversity of São Paulo · Brazil | 1.16Q1 | 1.85 1.29 up from 2017 | 160 | — | — | ||
10Interdisciplinary Journal of Information Knowledge and ManagementOAInforming Science Institute · United States | 1.10Q2 | 1.39 0.36 up from 2017 | 52 | 100% | — | ||
11International Journal of Pharmaceutical and Healthcare MarketingEmerald Publishing Limited · United Kingdom | 1.09Q2 | 1.50 0.50 up from 2017 | 71 | 3% | — | ||
12Journal of Financial Services MarketingPalgrave Macmillan · United Kingdom | 1.07Q2 | 0.69no change | 68 | 24% | $3,290 | ||
13Informing Science The International Journal of an Emerging TransdisciplineOAInforming Science Institute · United States | 1.07Q2 | 0.62 0.35 down from 2017 | 46 | 100% | — | ||
14Computing in Science & EngineeringAIP Publishing | 1.04Q2 | 1.44 0.48 up from 2017 | 326 | 31% | $2,995 | ||
15International Journal of E-Business ResearchOAIGI Global · United States | 1.02Q2 | 1.12 0.01 down from 2017 | 59 | 20% | — | ||
16International Journal of Electronic BusinessInderscience Publishers · United Kingdom | 0.97Q2 | 0.58 0.27 down from 2017 | 42 | 0% | — | ||
17Information Discovery and DeliveryEmerald Publishing Limited · United Kingdom | 0.94Q2 | 1.00no 2017 value | 31 | 5% | — | — | |
18International Journal of Electronic Commerce StudiesOAAcademy of Taiwan Information Systems Research · Taiwan | 0.94Q2 | 0.71 0.12 up from 2017 | 44 | 100% | — | ||
19The Journal of Internet Banking and CommerceOAOMICS Publishing Group · Canada | 0.80Q3 | 0.51 0.07 down from 2017 | 234 | 100% | — | ||
20International Journal of InnovationOAUniversidade Nove de Julho · Brazil | 0.78Q3 | 0.57 0.31 up from 2017 | 64 | 100% | — | ||
21International Journal of Technology and Human InteractionOAIGI Global · United States | 0.69Q3 | 0.66 1.12 down from 2017 | 73 | 14% | — | ||
22Brazilian Business ReviewOABrazil | 0.63Q3 | 0.62 0.22 up from 2017 | 125 | 100% | — | ||
23Administração Ensino e PesquisaOAAssociação Nacional dos Cursos de Graduação em Administração · Brazil | 0.54Q3 | 0.24 0.11 down from 2017 | 62 | 100% | — | ||
24International Journal of Information Systems in the Service SectorIGI Global · United States | 0.53Q3 | 0.78 0.29 down from 2017 | 63 | 0% | — | ||
25Journal of Electronic Commerce in OrganizationsOAIGI Global · United States | 0.43Q3 | 0.45 0.12 up from 2017 | 70 | 4% | — | ||
26International Journal of Information Communication Technologies and Human DevelopmentOAIGI Global · United States | 0.34Q3 | 0.34 0.03 down from 2017 | 50 | 0% | — | ||
27Asia Pacific Journal of Information SystemsThe Korea Society of Management Information Systems · South Korea | 0.30Q3 | 1.00 0.87 up from 2017 | 34 | 0% | — | ||
28International Journal of E-Services and Mobile ApplicationsOAIGI Global · United States | 0.29Q4 | 0.50 0.04 down from 2017 | 47 | 0% | — | ||
29Revista Eletrônica de Estratégia & NegóciosOAUniversidade do Sul de Santa Catarina · Brazil | 0.23Q4 | 0.17 0.07 up from 2017 | 80 | 100% | — | ||
30Revista Gestão & TecnologiaOABrazil | 0.20Q4 | 0.13 0.09 up from 2017 | 95 | 100% | — | ||
31Journal of Business Ethics EducationPhilosophy Documentation Center · United Kingdom | 0.18Q4 | 0.16 0.06 up from 2017 | 49 | 0% | — | ||
32Iberoamerican Journal of Project ManagementNational University of Mar del Plata · Argentina | 0.08Q4 | 0.08 0.04 up from 2017 | 41 | 0% | — | ||
33Journal of Media Literacy EducationOANational Association for Media Literacy Education · United States | 0.04Q4 | 0.03 0.01 down from 2017 | 2,652 | 100% | — | ||
34Open Scholarship Initiative ProceedingsOAUnited States | 0.03Q4 | 0.03 0.12 down from 2017 | 67 | 100% | — | ||
| 0.02Q4 | 0.04 0.02 down from 2017 | 51 | 0% | — |
Subfields of Decision Sciences, with Information Systems and Management highlighted.
- Management Science and Operations Research110
- Statistics, Probability and Uncertainty41
- Information Systems and Management35
- General Decision Sciences5
Journals
Citations made in 2018. Corpus-wide, 81.5% of core-journal articles and reviews published that year have at least one matched reference; the share varies by journal and field.
9 additional Information Systems and Management journals with metrics are unranked under this release’s eligibility rules: a journal needs at least 30 citable documents in 2015–2017, 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: 2018. Publication window: 2015–2017. How these summaries are calculated
- Ranked journals
- 35
- Window papers (baseline)
- 38,809 +22.7% from indicator year 2015
- Median OJR
- 0.94 +35.1% from indicator year 2015
- Rising journals (2025)
- 1
Window papers are the baseline paper population: citable papers (articles, reviews and conference papers) from 2015–2017 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 |
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| Ranked journals | 6 | 7 | 8 | 7 | 8 | 13 | 13 | 16 | 17 | 19 | 21 | 29 | 31 | 34 | 33 | 32 | 33 | 35 | 35 | 34 | 34 | 33 | 32 | 33 | 32 | 28 | |
| Window papers (baseline) | 6,130 | 6,852 | 7,662 | 8,673 | 9,505 | 10,660 | 12,249 | 13,815 | 15,885 | 18,047 | 20,274 | 22,039 | 24,021 | 26,342 | 28,966 | 31,627 | 34,090 | 36,650 | 38,809 | 40,778 | 42,027 | 43,018 | 43,316 | 42,055 | 41,490 | 45,176 | |
| Median OJR | 0.47 | 0.59 | 0.63 | 0.87 | 0.98 | 0.82 | 0.93 | 0.99 | 0.96 | 1.19 | 1.32 | 1.18 | 0.855 | 0.690 | 0.79 | 0.694 | 0.78 | 0.773 | 0.94 | 0.848 | 0.851 | 1.004 | 0.770 | 0.67 | 0.68 | 0.80 |
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.