Journal rankings · indicator year 2018
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Subfield ranking · 2018
Strategy and Management journal rankings 2018
206 ranked journals · Subfield in Business, Management and Accounting
Strategy and Management has 206 ranked journals in 2018. The median OJR rose 0.06 on 2017 to 1.37, above the world average of 1.00; Q1 starts at OJR 3.18. The top three are Journal of International Business Studies, Journal of Operations Management, and California 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)
206 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 International Business StudiesPalgrave Macmillan · United Kingdom | 9.88Q1 | 8.75 1.58 up from 2017 | 178 | 48% | $4,790 | ||
2Journal of Operations ManagementWiley · United States | 8.40Q1 | 7.56 2.66 up from 2017 | 110 | 27% | $3,520 | ||
3California Management ReviewSAGE Publishing · United States | 8.28Q1 | 7.61 1.06 up from 2017 | 91 | 40% | $3,900 | ||
4Journal of World BusinessElsevier BV · United States | 8.15Q1 | 6.17 1.38 up from 2017 | 199 | 55% | $4,750 | ||
5Strategic Management JournalWiley · United States | 8.10Q1 | 5.74 0.54 up from 2017 | 347 | 35% | $4,250 | ||
6Meditari Accountancy ResearchEmerald Publishing Limited · United Kingdom | 7.34Q1 | 5.81 1.63 up from 2017 | 75 | 6% | — | ||
7International Journal of Physical Distribution & Logistics ManagementEmerald Publishing Limited | 7.08Q1 | 8.40 1.88 up from 2017 | 129 | 31% | — | ||
8TechnovationElsevier BV · United Kingdom | 7.00Q1 | 4.61 0.25 up from 2017 | 144 | 34% | $3,890 | ||
9Journal of Intellectual CapitalEmerald Publishing Limited · United Kingdom | 6.87Q1 | 5.62 0.49 down from 2017 | 127 | 11% | — | ||
10Supply Chain Management An International JournalEmerald Publishing Limited · United Kingdom | 6.83Q1 | 6.22 0.82 up from 2017 | 132 | 36% | — | ||
11Business Strategy and the EnvironmentWiley · United Kingdom | 6.57Q1 | 6.66 1.76 up from 2017 | 133 | 37% | $4,480 | ||
12BRQ Business Research QuarterlyOASAGE Publishing · Spain | 6.43Q1 | 4.68no change | 49 | 100% | $0 listed | ||
13International Marketing ReviewEmerald Publishing Limited · United Kingdom | 6.41Q1 | 6.06 1.77 up from 2017 | 114 | 40% | — | ||
14International Journal of Operations & Production ManagementEmerald Publishing Limited · United Kingdom | 6.21Q1 | 5.83 1.01 up from 2017 | 235 | 59% | — | ||
15Long Range PlanningElsevier BV · United Kingdom | 6.06Q1 | 4.81 1.18 up from 2017 | 174 | 48% | $3,900 | ||
16International Journal of Production EconomicsElsevier BV · Netherlands | 5.95Q1 | 6.80 1.67 up from 2017 | 932 | 31% | $4,420 | ||
17Journal of Supply Chain ManagementWiley · United Kingdom | 5.93Q1 | 5.22 0.98 up from 2017 | 83 | 36% | $3,700 | ||
18International Business ReviewElsevier BV · United Kingdom | 5.89Q1 | 4.92 1.70 up from 2017 | 283 | 39% | $4,550 | ||
19International Journal of Management ReviewsWiley · United Kingdom | 5.69Q1 | 6.56 0.10 down from 2017 | 99 | 42% | $4,220 | ||
20Journal of Management Information SystemsTaylor & Francis · United States | 5.61Q1 | 4.93 0.72 up from 2017 | 135 | 35% | — | ||
21Journal of International ManagementElsevier BV · Netherlands | 5.55Q1 | 4.94 2.01 up from 2017 | 89 | 25% | $4,020 | ||
22Industrial Marketing ManagementElsevier BV · United States | 5.32Q1 | 5.49 0.19 down from 2017 | 498 | 36% | $3,990 | ||
23Corporate Social Responsibility and Environmental ManagementWiley · United Kingdom | 5.30Q1 | 6.53 0.29 up from 2017 | 100 | 25% | $4,100 | ||
24Organization ScienceInstitute for Operations Research and the Management Sciences · United States | 5.23Q1 | 4.35 0.56 up from 2017 | 259 | 23% | — | ||
25Industrial Management & Data SystemsEmerald Publishing Limited · United Kingdom | 5.16Q1 | 5.53 0.64 up from 2017 | 319 | 19% | — | ||
26Journal of Enterprise Information ManagementEmerald Publishing Limited · United Kingdom | 5.02Q1 | 4.01 1.35 down from 2017 | 136 | 8% | — | ||
27Journal of CompetitivenessOATomas Baťa University in Zlín · Czechia | 4.93Q1 | 4.83 1.65 up from 2017 | 90 | 100% | $485 | ||
28Journal of Purchasing and Supply ManagementElsevier BV · United Kingdom | 4.91Q1 | 3.87 0.79 down from 2017 | 95 | 36% | $3,280 | ||
29Management International ReviewSpringer Science+Business Media · Germany | 4.87Q1 | 2.86 0.03 down from 2017 | 103 | 55% | $3,290 | ||
30Regulation & GovernanceWiley · Australia | 4.86Q1 | 2.79 0.98 down from 2017 | 88 | 44% | $4,480 | ||
31Academy of Management PerspectivesAcademy of Management · United States | 4.74Q1 | 4.70 0.20 up from 2017 | 99 | 39% | — | ||
32Operations Management ResearchSpringer Science+Business Media · United States | 4.73Q1 | 6.38 2.14 up from 2017 | 31 | 50% | $3,890 | ||
33Journal of Product Innovation ManagementWiley · United States | 4.67Q1 | 4.32 0.75 up from 2017 | 161 | 39% | $3,400 | ||
34Industry and InnovationTaylor & Francis · United Kingdom | 4.66Q1 | 4.48 2.09 up from 2017 | 145 | 29% | — | ||
35Global Strategy JournalWiley · United Kingdom | 4.64Q1 | 3.28 0.56 up from 2017 | 96 | 53% | $3,480 | ||
36Business & SocietySAGE Publishing · United States | 4.49Q1 | 2.70 0.70 down from 2017 | 162 | 50% | $3,900 | ||
37Strategic OrganizationSAGE Publishing · United Kingdom | 4.49Q1 | 4.22 0.75 up from 2017 | 84 | 41% | $3,900 | ||
38Journal of Open Innovation Technology Market and ComplexityOASpringer Science+Business Media · Switzerland | 4.36Q1 | 5.86 0.63 up from 2017 | 71 | 100% | $1,250 | ||
39Asia Pacific Journal of ManagementSpringer Science+Business Media · Singapore | 4.30Q1 | 3.81 0.70 up from 2017 | 127 | 33% | $3,590 | ||
40Sustainability Accounting Management and Policy JournalEmerald Publishing Limited · United Kingdom | 4.00Q1 | 3.25 0.01 up from 2017 | 77 | 10% | — | ||
41Journal of Business LogisticsWiley · United States | 3.98Q1 | 4.45 0.92 up from 2017 | 72 | 23% | $3,570 | ||
42European Research on Management and Business EconomicsOAElsevier BV · Spain | 3.97Q1 | 4.18 2.60 up from 2017 | 58 | 100% | $1,350 | ||
43Production Planning & ControlTaylor & Francis · United Kingdom | 3.72Q1 | 4.32 0.96 up from 2017 | 272 | 54% | — | ||
44Creativity and Innovation ManagementWiley · United Kingdom | 3.68Q1 | 3.53 0.95 up from 2017 | 116 | 44% | $3,350 | ||
45Management DecisionEmerald Publishing Limited · United Kingdom | 3.61Q1 | 3.50 0.87 up from 2017 | 380 | 21% | — | ||
46Journal of International EntrepreneurshipSpringer Science+Business Media · Netherlands | 3.46Q1 | 2.96 0.52 up from 2017 | 73 | 52% | $3,390 | ||
47Competitiveness Review An International Business Journal incorporating Journal of Global CompetitivenessEmerald Publishing Limited · United Kingdom | 3.43Q1 | 2.84 1.04 up from 2017 | 95 | 20% | — | ||
48Journal of Manufacturing Technology ManagementEmerald Publishing Limited · United Kingdom | 3.36Q1 | 4.25 0.96 up from 2017 | 171 | 15% | — | ||
49European Journal of Innovation ManagementEmerald Publishing Limited · United Kingdom | 3.28Q1 | 2.94 0.63 up from 2017 | 100 | 14% | — | ||
50InnovationTaylor & Francis · United Kingdom | 3.26Q1 | 3.10 1.54 up from 2017 | 101 | 28% | — |
Subfields of Business, Management and Accounting, with Strategy and 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.
54 additional Strategy 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
- 206
- Window papers (baseline)
- 96,897 +6.6% from indicator year 2015
- Median OJR
- 1.373 +12.3% from indicator year 2015
- Rising journals (2025)
- 13
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 | 72 | 79 | 87 | 94 | 101 | 107 | 110 | 123 | 131 | 139 | 146 | 154 | 167 | 175 | 186 | 190 | 199 | 204 | 206 | 211 | 214 | 210 | 214 | 220 | 222 | 213 | |
| Window papers (baseline) | 23,449 | 26,506 | 29,536 | 33,195 | 37,060 | 41,645 | 46,917 | 53,029 | 58,986 | 64,379 | 68,932 | 72,542 | 77,730 | 81,813 | 86,752 | 90,905 | 94,669 | 95,929 | 96,897 | 99,959 | 106,972 | 115,235 | 123,211 | 127,988 | 137,294 | 152,569 | |
| Median OJR | 1.02 | 1.002 | 1.08 | 1.07 | 1.13 | 1.36 | 1.27 | 1.33 | 1.35 | 1.570 | 1.450 | 1.448 | 1.39 | 1.375 | 1.34 | 1.22 | 1.20 | 1.32 | 1.373 | 1.412 | 1.47 | 1.566 | 1.55 | 1.405 | 1.56 | 1.62 |
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.