Journal rankings · indicator year 2018
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Subfield ranking · 2018
Organizational Behavior and Human Resource Management journal rankings 2018
142 ranked journals · Subfield in Business, Management and Accounting
Organizational Behavior and Human Resource Management has 142 ranked journals in 2018. The median OJR rose 0.12 on 2017 to 1.71, above the world average of 1.00; Q1 starts at OJR 2.80. The top three are Academy of Management Annals, Academy of Management Journal, and Academy of Management Review.
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)
142 ranked journals
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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 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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1Academy of Management AnnalsRoutledge · United States | 16.12Q1 | 16.66 5.37 up from 2017 | 102 | 25% | — | ||
2Academy of Management JournalAcademy of Management · United States | 9.59Q1 | 8.54 1.27 up from 2017 | 276 | 32% | — | ||
3Academy of Management ReviewAcademy of Management · United States | 8.99Q1 | 5.75 1.99 down from 2017 | 134 | 19% | — | ||
4Journal of ManagementSAGE Publishing · United States | 8.55Q1 | 7.88 1.67 up from 2017 | 232 | 39% | $3,900 | ||
5Journal of Management StudiesWiley · United Kingdom | 8.17Q1 | 6.67 0.63 up from 2017 | 157 | 52% | $4,150 | ||
6Family Business ReviewSAGE Publishing · United Kingdom | 6.68Q1 | 7.16 1.77 up from 2017 | 47 | 26% | $3,900 | ||
7International Journal of Hospitality ManagementElsevier BV · United Kingdom | 5.85Q1 | 6.09 1.53 up from 2017 | 391 | 25% | $4,270 | ||
8Journal of Organizational BehaviorWiley · United Kingdom | 5.47Q1 | 4.88 0.22 down from 2017 | 230 | 33% | $4,250 | ||
9Human Resource Management JournalWiley · United Kingdom | 5.40Q1 | 4.90 0.95 up from 2017 | 104 | 54% | $4,250 | ||
10Human Resource Management ReviewElsevier BV · United States | 5.30Q1 | 5.63 0.43 up from 2017 | 137 | 20% | $5,170 | ||
11Journal of Vocational BehaviorElsevier BV · United States | 5.06Q1 | 5.11 0.34 up from 2017 | 276 | 44% | $4,690 | ||
12Organization StudiesSAGE Publishing · Germany | 4.90Q1 | 4.42 0.29 up from 2017 | 283 | 40% | $3,900 | ||
13Organizational Psychology ReviewSAGE Publishing · United Kingdom | 4.85Q1 | 4.85 0.93 down from 2017 | 35 | 29% | $3,900 | ||
14Organizational Research MethodsSAGE Publishing · United States | 4.67Q1 | 5.55 0.31 up from 2017 | 121 | 41% | $3,900 | ||
15European Management JournalElsevier BV · Germany | 4.55Q1 | 4.30 0.82 up from 2017 | 216 | 23% | $2,160 | ||
16Journal of Family Business StrategyElsevier BV · Netherlands | 4.50Q1 | 5.16 0.51 up from 2017 | 76 | 18% | $3,730 | ||
17OrganizationSAGE Publishing · United Kingdom | 4.44Q1 | 3.80 0.60 up from 2017 | 123 | 42% | $3,900 | ||
18Human RelationsSAGE Publishing · United Kingdom | 4.36Q1 | 3.92 0.03 down from 2017 | 284 | 39% | $3,900 | ||
19Human Resource ManagementWiley · United States | 3.89Q1 | 2.54 0.85 down from 2017 | 190 | 22% | $4,150 | ||
20Journal of Service Theory and PracticeEmerald Publishing Limited · United Kingdom | 3.85Q1 | 4.19 1.68 up from 2017 | 141 | 21% | — | ||
21Journal of Occupational and Organizational PsychologyWiley · United Kingdom | 3.78Q1 | 3.33 1.19 down from 2017 | 90 | 48% | $3,840 | ||
22Personnel PsychologyWiley · United Kingdom | 3.64Q1 | 2.25 0.49 down from 2017 | 134 | 15% | $3,400 | ||
23Career Development InternationalEmerald Publishing Limited · United Kingdom | 3.49Q1 | 3.13 0.04 up from 2017 | 124 | 30% | — | ||
24Journal of Marketing for HIGHER EDUCATIONTaylor & Francis · United States | 3.48Q1 | 2.82 0.82 up from 2017 | 45 | 26% | — | ||
25Journal of Professions and OrganizationOxford University Press · United Kingdom | 3.47Q1 | 2.30 2.34 down from 2017 | 41 | 50% | $2,976 | ||
26Applied PsychologyWiley · United Kingdom | 3.36Q1 | 4.30 1.65 up from 2017 | 86 | 37% | $3,840 | ||
27European Journal of Work and Organizational PsychologyTaylor & Francis · United Kingdom | 3.22Q1 | 3.57 0.10 up from 2017 | 154 | 48% | — | ||
28Organizational DynamicsElsevier BV · United States | 3.19Q1 | 2.65 0.30 up from 2017 | 116 | 16% | $2,740 | ||
29Journal of Managerial PsychologyEmerald Publishing Limited · United Kingdom | 3.15Q1 | 2.97 0.02 up from 2017 | 192 | 27% | — | ||
30Academy of Management Learning and EducationAcademy of Management · United States | 3.06Q1 | 3.19 0.17 up from 2017 | 120 | 19% | — | ||
31Scandinavian Journal of ManagementElsevier BV · United Kingdom | 3.06Q1 | 1.98 0.28 down from 2017 | 71 | 39% | $3,190 | ||
32The International Journal of Human Resource ManagementRoutledge · United Kingdom | 3.01Q1 | 2.45 0.01 up from 2017 | 573 | 44% | — | ||
33Employee RelationsEmerald Publishing Limited · United Kingdom | 2.95Q1 | 2.28 0.50 down from 2017 | 177 | 36% | — | ||
34Journal of Business and PsychologySpringer Science+Business Media · United States | 2.90Q1 | 2.92 0.84 up from 2017 | 128 | 24% | $3,090 | ||
35Group & Organization ManagementSAGE Publishing · United States | 2.87Q1 | 2.03 0.64 down from 2017 | 98 | 36% | $3,900 | ||
36European Journal of Management and Business EconomicsOAEmerald Publishing Limited · United Kingdom | 2.80Q1 | 2.26 0.01 up from 2017 | 40 | 100% | — | ||
37Management Research ReviewEmerald Publishing Limited · United Kingdom | 2.75Q2 | 2.38 0.23 up from 2017 | 213 | 15% | — | ||
38Personnel ReviewEmerald Publishing Limited · United Kingdom | 2.70Q2 | 2.44 0.01 down from 2017 | 262 | 26% | — | ||
39Globalization and HealthOABioMed Central · United Kingdom | 2.66Q2 | 3.37 0.09 down from 2017 | 222 | 100% | $3,190 | ||
40Journal of Leadership & Organizational StudiesSAGE Publishing · United States | 2.66Q2 | 2.64 0.58 up from 2017 | 98 | 13% | $3,900 | ||
41Qualitative Research in Organizations and Management An International JournalEmerald Publishing Limited · United Kingdom | 2.64Q2 | 3.35 2.50 up from 2017 | 80 | 28% | — | ||
42The Journal of Applied Behavioral ScienceSAGE Publishing · United States | 2.63Q2 | 2.66 0.06 up from 2017 | 57 | 25% | $3,650 | ||
43The Learning OrganizationEmerald Publishing Limited · United Kingdom | 2.61Q2 | 2.59 0.67 up from 2017 | 106 | 25% | — | ||
44Journal of Work and Organizational PsychologyOAColegio Oficial de Psicólogos de Madrid · Spain | 2.54Q2 | 2.88 0.64 up from 2017 | 65 | 100% | — | ||
45Leadership & Organization Development JournalEmerald Publishing Limited · United Kingdom | 2.49Q2 | 2.56 0.66 up from 2017 | 215 | 14% | — | ||
46Journal of Organizational Effectiveness People and PerformanceEmerald Publishing Limited · United Kingdom | 2.47Q2 | 1.65 1.08 down from 2017 | 67 | 25% | — | ||
47Journal of Management DevelopmentEmerald Publishing Limited · United Kingdom | 2.43Q2 | 2.30 0.21 up from 2017 | 253 | 8% | — | ||
48Management LearningSAGE Publishing · United Kingdom | 2.42Q2 | 2.41 0.59 up from 2017 | 77 | 31% | $3,900 | ||
49International Studies of Management and OrganizationTaylor & Francis · United States | 2.39Q2 | 1.74 0.14 up from 2017 | 59 | 41% | — | ||
50Journal of Personal Selling and Sales ManagementTaylor & Francis · United States | 2.35Q2 | 2.37 0.32 up from 2017 | 65 | 19% | — |
Subfields of Business, Management and Accounting, with Organizational Behavior and Human Resource Management 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.
21 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 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
- 142
- Window papers (baseline)
- 48,146 -1.4% from indicator year 2015
- Median OJR
- 1.71 +5.7% from indicator year 2015
- Rising journals (2025)
- 8
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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Ranked journals | 74 | 76 | 77 | 79 | 84 | 88 | 94 | 96 | 101 | 105 | 111 | 113 | 120 | 124 | 128 | 131 | 138 | 140 | 142 | 141 | 139 | 137 | 141 | 140 | 140 | 136 | |
| Window papers (baseline) | 12,547 | 13,934 | 15,495 | 17,468 | 19,434 | 21,618 | 24,018 | 26,923 | 30,114 | 33,351 | 36,626 | 39,460 | 43,433 | 45,531 | 47,948 | 48,828 | 49,704 | 49,017 | 48,146 | 48,669 | 51,032 | 55,127 | 58,558 | 60,177 | 61,594 | 65,848 | |
| Median OJR | 0.9522 | 0.9523 | 0.97 | 1.16 | 1.29 | 1.41 | 1.56 | 1.73 | 1.691 | 1.72 | 1.86 | 1.685 | 1.85 | 1.831 | 1.76 | 1.62 | 1.70 | 1.59 | 1.71 | 1.60 | 1.75 | 1.79 | 1.77 | 1.830 | 1.80 | 1.88 |
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.