Journal rankings · indicator year 2018
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Subfield ranking · 2018
Management Information Systems journal rankings 2018
84 ranked journals · Subfield in Business, Management and Accounting
Management Information Systems has 84 ranked journals in 2018. The median journal has an OJR of 0.72, below the world average of 1.00, down 0.01 on 2017; Q1 starts at OJR 1.63. The top three are The Journal of Strategic Information Systems, Management Accounting Research, and Business & Information Systems Engineering.
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 Business, Management and Accounting (9)
84 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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1The Journal of Strategic Information SystemsElsevier BV · Netherlands | 5.77Q1 | 4.27 0.30 up from 2017 | 92 | 27% | $4,160 | ||
2Management Accounting ResearchElsevier BV · United Kingdom | 5.68Q1 | 4.78 0.39 up from 2017 | 72 | 21% | $3,690 | ||
3Business & Information Systems EngineeringSpringer Nature · Germany | 4.84Q1 | 4.78 1.36 up from 2017 | 127 | 49% | $4,090 | ||
4Accounting Auditing & Accountability JournalEmerald Publishing Limited · United Kingdom | 4.84Q1 | 3.43 0.46 down from 2017 | 214 | 53% | — | ||
5International Journal of Accounting Information SystemsElsevier BV · United States | 3.68Q1 | 3.31 0.90 up from 2017 | 53 | 25% | $4,130 | ||
6Critical Perspectives on AccountingElsevier BV · United Kingdom | 3.57Q1 | 3.56 0.20 up from 2017 | 146 | 47% | $4,460 | ||
7Manufacturing & Service Operations ManagementInstitute for Operations Research and the Management Sciences · United States | 3.03Q1 | 3.35 0.83 up from 2017 | 137 | 20% | — | ||
8Business Process Management JournalEmerald Publishing Limited · United Kingdom | 2.94Q1 | 3.58 1.13 up from 2017 | 204 | 26% | — | ||
9The TQM JournalEmerald Publishing Limited · United Kingdom | 2.64Q1 | 3.14 1.05 up from 2017 | 167 | 15% | — | ||
10Journal of Management AnalyticsTaylor & Francis · United Kingdom | 2.63Q1 | 3.48 0.28 up from 2017 | 54 | 14% | — | ||
11International Journal of Lean Six SigmaEmerald Publishing Limited · United Kingdom | 2.62Q1 | 4.64 0.93 up from 2017 | 71 | 8% | — | ||
12Logistics ResearchOABundesvereinigung Logistik · Germany | 2.61Q1 | 2.38 0.75 down from 2017 | 33 | — | — | ||
13Information Systems and e-Business ManagementSpringer Science+Business Media · Germany | 2.52Q1 | 2.14 0.29 up from 2017 | 92 | 27% | $3,090 | ||
14Decision SciencesWiley · United States | 2.30Q1 | 1.90 0.30 up from 2017 | 167 | 22% | $3,090 | ||
15Production and Operations ManagementWiley · United States | 2.13Q1 | 2.30 0.68 up from 2017 | 431 | 18% | $3,900 | ||
16Qualitative Research in Accounting & ManagementEmerald Publishing Limited · United Kingdom | 2.13Q1 | 2.14 0.42 up from 2017 | 62 | 40% | — | ||
17International Journal of Quality & Reliability ManagementEmerald Publishing Limited · United Kingdom | 2.06Q1 | 2.30 0.14 up from 2017 | 248 | 6% | — | ||
18Journal of Accounting & Organizational ChangeEmerald Publishing Limited · United Kingdom | 2.01Q1 | 1.33 0.20 down from 2017 | 75 | 33% | — | ||
19Communications of the Association for Information SystemsAssociation for Information Systems · United States | 1.92Q1 | 1.40 0.47 down from 2017 | 210 | 68% | — | ||
20Total Quality Management & Business ExcellenceTaylor & Francis · United Kingdom | 1.70Q1 | 1.88 0.44 up from 2017 | 325 | 21% | — | ||
21Journal of Management ControlSpringer Science+Business Media · Germany | 1.63Q1 | 2.57 1.22 up from 2017 | 52 | 33% | $3,190 | ||
22BPM (Demos)Publisher not listed | 1.60Q2 | 2.05 1.05 up from 2017 | 30 | — | — | ||
23Information Systems ManagementTaylor & Francis · United States | 1.38Q2 | 1.46 0.18 down from 2017 | 149 | 30% | — | ||
24International Journal of Health Care Quality AssuranceEmerald Publishing Limited · United Kingdom | 1.36Q2 | 1.55 0.05 up from 2017 | 190 | 15% | — | ||
25Accounting History ReviewTaylor & Francis · United Kingdom | 1.30Q2 | 0.94 0.06 down from 2017 | 54 | 39% | $3,175 | ||
26Stochastic SystemsOAInstitute for Operations Research and the Management Sciences · United States | 1.25Q2 | 1.32 0.01 down from 2017 | 57 | 100% | — | ||
27Journal of Decision SystemTaylor & Francis · United Kingdom | 1.09Q2 | 1.11 0.19 down from 2017 | 116 | 18% | — | ||
28Naval Research Logistics (NRL)Wiley · United States | 1.01Q2 | 1.28 0.17 up from 2017 | 136 | 21% | $3,700 | ||
29Social and Environmental Accountability JournalRoutledge · United Kingdom | 1.00Q2 | 0.98 0.21 down from 2017 | 92 | 21% | — | ||
30Journal of Systems Science and Systems EngineeringSpringer Science+Business Media · China | 0.97Q2 | 1.43 0.43 up from 2017 | 88 | 18% | $3,890 | ||
31Paradigm A Management Research JournalSAGE Publishing · India | 0.95Q2 | 0.78 0.24 up from 2017 | 41 | 0% | $3,400 | ||
32Transportation JournalPenn State University Press · United States | 0.92Q2 | 1.38 0.38 up from 2017 | 88 | 3% | $2,940 | ||
33Pacific Asia journal of the Association for Information SystemsAssociation for Information Systems · United States | 0.92Q2 | 0.73 0.07 up from 2017 | 47 | 0% | — | ||
34Accounting HistorySAGE Publishing · United Kingdom | 0.89Q2 | 1.10 0.11 down from 2017 | 104 | 18% | $3,650 | ||
35Journal of Information Technology Case and Application ResearchTaylor & Francis · United States | 0.88Q2 | 0.94 0.19 up from 2017 | 49 | 22% | — | ||
| 0.84Q2 | 0.75 0.27 up from 2017 | 77 | 100% | — | |||
37Journal of Industrial and Management OptimizationOAAmerican Institute of Mathematical Sciences · United States | 0.81Q2 | 1.04 0.11 up from 2017 | 285 | 100% | — | ||
38Complex Systems Informatics and Modeling QuarterlyOARiga Technical University · Latvia | 0.81Q2 | 1.22 0.20 up from 2017 | 70 | 100% | — | ||
39IEEE Engineering Management ReviewInstitute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers · United States | 0.78Q2 | 0.69 0.11 down from 2017 | 278 | 30% | $2,645 | ||
40Queueing SystemsSpringer Science+Business Media · Netherlands | 0.78Q2 | 0.88 0.54 down from 2017 | 128 | 44% | $3,090 | ||
41The South African Journal of Industrial EngineeringOAStellenbosch University · South Africa | 0.74Q2 | 1.00 0.24 up from 2017 | 187 | 100% | $67 | ||
42Information Resources Management JournalIGI Global · United States | 0.72Q2 | 0.95 0.60 up from 2017 | 59 | 6% | — | ||
43International Journal of Enterprise Information SystemsOAIGI Global · United States | 0.72Q3 | 0.80 0.04 down from 2017 | 72 | 5% | — | ||
44International Journal of Business Information SystemsInderscience Publishers · United Kingdom | 0.71Q3 | 0.65 0.24 down from 2017 | 340 | 1% | — | ||
45OPSEARCHSpringer Science+Business Media · India | 0.70Q3 | 0.98 0.17 up from 2017 | 130 | 0% | $3,290 | ||
46Systèmes d information & managementOAPublisher not listed | 0.67Q3 | 0.55 0.27 up from 2017 | 120 | 100% | — | ||
47International Journal of Process Management and BenchmarkingInderscience Publishers · United Kingdom | 0.63Q3 | 0.63 0.14 up from 2017 | 115 | 0% | — | ||
48International Journal of Management and Decision MakingInderscience Publishers · United Kingdom | 0.60Q3 | 0.66 0.25 up from 2017 | 85 | 12% | — | ||
49Business Information ReviewSAGE Publishing · United States | 0.59Q3 | 0.64 0.21 up from 2017 | 77 | 14% | $3,400 | ||
50International Journal of Business Process Integration and ManagementInderscience Publishers · United Kingdom | 0.59Q3 | 0.54 0.01 up from 2017 | 54 | 0% | — |
Subfields of Business, Management and Accounting, with Management Information Systems highlighted.
- Strategy and Management206
- Accounting143
- Organizational Behavior and Human Resource Management142
- Marketing86
- Management Information Systems84
- Management of Technology and Innovation59
- Tourism, Leisure and Hospitality Management7
- Business and International Management5
- Industrial relations0
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.
43 additional Management Information Systems 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
- 84
- Window papers (baseline)
- 37,898 +10.9% from indicator year 2015
- Median OJR
- 0.720 -15.5% from indicator year 2015
- Rising journals (2025)
- 3
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 | 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.