Journal rankings · indicator year 2019
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Field ranking · 2019
Business, Management and Accounting journal rankings 2019
731 ranked journals · Field in Social Sciences
Business, Management and Accounting has 731 ranked journals in 2019. Its median journal scores above the world average: OJR 1.39 against 1.00, up 0.02 on 2018. A journal needs OJR 2.76 to reach Q1. The top three are Academy of Management Annals, Journal of Marketing, and Academy of Management Journal.
Ranks and citation indicators: 2019. 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 2016–2018, the window the 2019 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 in Business, Management and Accounting (9)
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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 2018. This is OpenJournalRank’s own count, not Clarivate’s Journal Impact Factor. | Citable documents (articles, reviews and conference papers) published in 2016–2018, the window the 2019 OJR is computed on. A journal needs at least 30 to be ranked. | Share of the journal’s 2016–2018 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 2010 to 2019. | Compare |
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1Academy of Management AnnalsRoutledge · United States | 15.97Q1 | 18.48 1.82 up from 2018 | 96 | 31% | — | ||
2Journal of MarketingSAGE Publishing · United Kingdom | 11.19Q1 | 7.74 3.13 down from 2018 | 151 | 34% | $5,400 | ||
3Academy of Management JournalAcademy of Management · United States | 8.79Q1 | 7.41 1.13 down from 2018 | 262 | 30% | — | ||
4Journal of Business VenturingElsevier BV · Netherlands | 8.73Q1 | 8.60 0.97 down from 2018 | 152 | 35% | $4,130 | ||
5Journal of ManagementSAGE Publishing · United States | 8.54Q1 | 6.99 0.89 down from 2018 | 231 | 37% | $3,900 | ||
6Journal of International Business StudiesPalgrave Macmillan · United Kingdom | 8.52Q1 | 9.13 0.39 up from 2018 | 189 | 44% | $4,790 | ||
7Entrepreneurship Theory and PracticeSAGE Publishing · United States | 8.41Q1 | 5.22 2.57 down from 2018 | 137 | 58% | $3,900 | ||
8California Management ReviewSAGE Publishing · United States | 8.21Q1 | 7.72 0.11 up from 2018 | 85 | 17% | $3,900 | ||
9Journal of the Academy of Marketing ScienceSpringer Science+Business Media · United States | 7.69Q1 | 8.79 2.12 up from 2018 | 148 | 35% | $4,790 | ||
10Journal of Accounting LiteratureElsevier BV · United Kingdom | 7.51Q1 | 4.72 1.04 up from 2018 | 38 | 0% | $3,000 | ||
11Strategic Management JournalWiley · United States | 7.40Q1 | 7.05 1.31 up from 2018 | 323 | 36% | $4,250 | ||
12Journal of Management StudiesWiley · United Kingdom | 7.37Q1 | 5.45 1.22 down from 2018 | 174 | 46% | $4,150 | ||
13TechnovationElsevier BV · United Kingdom | 7.35Q1 | 6.38 1.77 up from 2018 | 161 | 33% | $3,890 | ||
14Journal of Accounting ResearchWiley · United Kingdom | 7.05Q1 | 3.70 2.50 down from 2018 | 104 | 41% | $4,420 | ||
15Journal of Accounting and EconomicsElsevier BV · Netherlands | 6.92Q1 | 5.34 0.74 up from 2018 | 124 | 20% | $4,170 | ||
16Journal of World BusinessElsevier BV · United States | 6.85Q1 | 7.65 1.48 up from 2018 | 207 | 44% | $4,750 | ||
17Long Range PlanningElsevier BV · United Kingdom | 6.84Q1 | 6.48 1.67 up from 2018 | 194 | 52% | $3,900 | ||
18International Journal of Hospitality ManagementElsevier BV · United Kingdom | 6.61Q1 | 7.62 1.53 up from 2018 | 485 | 24% | $4,270 | ||
19Academy of Management ReviewAcademy of Management · United States | 6.49Q1 | 6.79 1.04 up from 2018 | 148 | 29% | — | ||
20Strategic Entrepreneurship JournalWiley · United States | 6.39Q1 | 7.75 3.77 up from 2018 | 88 | 43% | $4,100 | ||
21Journal of Supply Chain ManagementWiley · United Kingdom | 6.23Q1 | 7.81 2.58 up from 2018 | 69 | 38% | $3,700 | ||
22Journal of AdvertisingTaylor & Francis · United States | 6.20Q1 | 9.97 4.27 up from 2018 | 98 | 25% | — | ||
23Journal of RetailingElsevier BV · United States | 6.16Q1 | 7.44 2.61 up from 2018 | 113 | 18% | $3,030 | ||
24Journal of Management Information SystemsTaylor & Francis · United States | 6.15Q1 | 7.48 2.55 up from 2018 | 125 | 21% | — | ||
25The Accounting ReviewAmerican Accounting Association · United States | 6.11Q1 | 3.49 1.01 down from 2018 | 244 | 9% | — | ||
26Journal of Business ResearchElsevier BV · United States | 5.97Q1 | 5.92 0.27 up from 2018 | 1,632 | 38% | $4,440 | ||
27Small Business EconomicsSpringer Science+Business Media · Netherlands | 5.90Q1 | 5.71 1.10 up from 2018 | 404 | 48% | $3,090 | ||
28International Journal of Physical Distribution & Logistics ManagementEmerald Publishing Limited | 5.90Q1 | 6.69 1.71 down from 2018 | 150 | 23% | — | ||
29Journal of Service ResearchSAGE Publishing · United States | 5.89Q1 | 6.83 1.54 up from 2018 | 94 | 44% | $3,900 | ||
30Journal of Operations ManagementWiley · United States | 5.85Q1 | 5.97 1.59 down from 2018 | 103 | 29% | $3,520 | ||
31International Journal of Operations & Production ManagementEmerald Publishing Limited · United Kingdom | 5.82Q1 | 6.93 1.10 up from 2018 | 271 | 46% | — | ||
32Journal of service managementEmerald Publishing Limited · United Kingdom | 5.81Q1 | 7.40 2.33 up from 2018 | 123 | 40% | — | ||
33Human Resource Management JournalWiley · United Kingdom | 5.74Q1 | 5.74 0.84 up from 2018 | 124 | 48% | $4,250 | ||
34Family Business ReviewSAGE Publishing · United Kingdom | 5.74Q1 | 6.76 0.40 down from 2018 | 50 | 50% | $3,900 | ||
35International Journal of Management ReviewsWiley · United Kingdom | 5.72Q1 | 9.37 2.81 up from 2018 | 83 | 45% | $4,220 | ||
36Journal of Retailing and Consumer ServicesElsevier BV · United Kingdom | 5.57Q1 | 6.76 1.79 up from 2018 | 536 | 33% | $4,510 | ||
37Journal of International MarketingSAGE Publishing · United States | 5.56Q1 | 7.30 3.37 up from 2018 | 60 | 54% | $5,400 | ||
38BRQ Business Research QuarterlyOASAGE Publishing · Spain | 5.56Q1 | 4.25 0.43 down from 2018 | 69 | 100% | $0 listed | ||
39International Journal of Corporate Social ResponsibilityOASpringer Nature · Switzerland | 5.50Q1 | 2.67 2.14 down from 2018 | 36 | 100% | $1,790 | ||
40Journal of Vocational BehaviorElsevier BV · United States | 5.47Q1 | 6.02 0.91 up from 2018 | 294 | 34% | $4,690 | ||
41Journal of Intellectual CapitalEmerald Publishing Limited · United Kingdom | 5.46Q1 | 6.55 0.93 up from 2018 | 128 | 24% | — | ||
42International Marketing ReviewEmerald Publishing Limited · United Kingdom | 5.44Q1 | 4.04 2.03 down from 2018 | 150 | 31% | — | ||
43The British Accounting ReviewElsevier BV · United Kingdom | 5.41Q1 | 4.54 0.85 up from 2018 | 101 | 66% | $3,770 | ||
44Review of Accounting StudiesSpringer Science+Business Media · United States | 5.39Q1 | 3.70 0.34 up from 2018 | 125 | 25% | $3,190 | ||
45European Research on Management and Business EconomicsOAElsevier BV · Spain | 5.38Q1 | 5.66 1.47 up from 2018 | 55 | 100% | $1,350 | ||
46Business Strategy and the EnvironmentWiley · United Kingdom | 5.34Q1 | 6.83 0.18 up from 2018 | 233 | 34% | $4,480 | ||
47International Business ReviewElsevier BV · United Kingdom | 5.34Q1 | 5.28 0.35 up from 2018 | 287 | 45% | $4,550 | ||
48International Journal of Production EconomicsElsevier BV · Netherlands | 5.26Q1 | 6.74 0.06 down from 2018 | 922 | 34% | $4,420 | ||
49Journal of CompetitivenessOATomas Baťa University in Zlín · Czechia | 5.25Q1 | 4.47 0.36 down from 2018 | 105 | 100% | $485 | ||
50Journal of Product Innovation ManagementWiley · United States | 5.24Q1 | 5.37 1.05 up from 2018 | 161 | 42% | $3,400 |
Subfields of Business, Management and Accounting, compared.
- Strategy and Management211
- Accounting141
- Organizational Behavior and Human Resource Management141
- Marketing86
- Management Information Systems82
- Management of Technology and Innovation59
- Tourism, Leisure and Hospitality Management7
- Business and International Management4
- Industrial relations0
Journals
Citations made in 2019. Corpus-wide, 83.4% of core-journal articles and reviews published that year have at least one matched reference; the share varies by journal and field.
204 additional Business, Management and Accounting journals with metrics are unranked under this release’s eligibility rules: a journal needs at least 30 citable documents in 2016–2018, 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: 2019. Publication window: 2016–2018. How these summaries are calculated
- Ranked journals
- 731
- Window papers (baseline)
- 352,446 +8.6% from indicator year 2016
- Median OJR
- 1.390 -2.5% from indicator year 2016
- Rising journals (2025)
- 44Comparison-group list (44)
Window papers are the baseline paper population: citable papers (articles, reviews and conference papers) from 2016–2018 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 | 301 | 319 | 337 | 362 | 379 | 393 | 410 | 444 | 472 | 504 | 533 | 564 | 603 | 631 | 654 | 679 | 699 | 723 | 732 | 731 | 736 | 728 | 732 | 746 | 736 | 711 | |
| Window papers (baseline) | 77,554 | 86,596 | 96,328 | 108,450 | 120,666 | 134,917 | 150,748 | 168,846 | 187,138 | 204,210 | 221,221 | 236,993 | 260,265 | 277,202 | 296,178 | 310,557 | 324,663 | 331,972 | 338,869 | 352,446 | 378,348 | 410,151 | 441,053 | 455,118 | 483,546 | 540,006 | |
| Median OJR | 0.94 | 1.0005 | 1.05 | 1.11 | 1.15 | 1.29 | 1.38 | 1.429 | 1.45 | 1.35 | 1.402 | 1.396 | 1.388 | 1.3697 | 1.42 | 1.33 | 1.426 | 1.374 | 1.3699 | 1.390 | 1.49 | 1.56 | 1.53 | 1.48 | 1.57 | 1.62 |
| Measure | Category statistic | Eligible population |
|---|---|---|
| Journal self-citation share | Median: 6.2% | 535 journals |
| Retracted papers per 1,000 | Pooled rate: 1.041 per 1,000 | 391 journals |
| Output growth | Median: 0.0% | 662 journals |
| Open access share | Median: 44.9% | 711 journals |
| Listed APC (USD) | Median including $0 listed prices: $3,400 | 278 ranked journals with a known listed price, including $0 listed prices |
| International collaboration share | Median: 29.9% | 665 journals |
| Review share | Median: 1.1% | 711 journals |
| Articles-only OJR | Median: 1.70 | 705 journals |
| Uncited share | Median: 26.8% | 711 journals |
| Citation concentration | Median: 45.6% | 710 journals |
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.