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Journal rankings · indicator year 2019

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Management Information Systems journal rankings 2019

82 ranked journals · Subfield in Business, Management and Accounting

Management Information Systems has 82 ranked journals in 2019. The median journal has an OJR of 0.76, below the world average of 1.00, up 0.04 on 2018; Q1 starts at OJR 1.34. The top three are Business & Information Systems Engineering, The Journal of Strategic Information Systems, and Accounting Auditing & Accountability Journal.

Ranks and citation indicators: 2019. Journal access status and listed APC: source snapshot September 23, 2026.

Ranked journals

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.

82
11% of Business, Management and Accounting
Median OJR

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.

0.76+0.04 vs 2018
This subfieldAll 0.82World 1.00
Open-access journals

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.

20%
All fields: 34%
Median listed APC

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.

$3,400
Median positive listed APC: $3,400 among 21 journals. Another 1 lists $0; 60 have no known price. All fields: $3,310.

Subfields of Business, Management and Accounting (9)

82 ranked journals

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Quartiles split the ranked journals of the list you are viewing into four equal groups by OJR. Q1 is the top quarter and Q4 the bottom quarter.

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Management Information Systems ranking, 2019

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.

OJR

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.

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4.85Q16.67 1.89 up from 201813251%$4,090
4.84Q17.42 3.15 up from 20189526%$4,160
3Accounting Auditing & Accountability JournalEmerald Publishing Limited · United Kingdom
4.28Q14.77 1.34 up from 201825147%—
4.11Q13.92 0.62 up from 20185922%$4,130
5Management Accounting ResearchElsevier BV · United Kingdom
3.90Q12.89 1.89 down from 20186529%$3,690
6Manufacturing & Service Operations ManagementInstitute for Operations Research and the Management Sciences · United States
3.53Q15.34 1.99 up from 201814930%—
7Critical Perspectives on AccountingElsevier BV · United Kingdom
3.34Q13.33 0.23 down from 201813145%$4,460
8Business Process Management JournalEmerald Publishing Limited · United Kingdom
3.18Q13.74 0.16 up from 201826321%—
9Information Systems and e-Business ManagementSpringer Science+Business Media · Germany
3.06Q13.35 1.20 up from 2018823%$3,090
10The TQM JournalEmerald Publishing Limited · United Kingdom
2.86Q14.35 1.21 up from 20181615%—
11International Journal of Lean Six SigmaEmerald Publishing Limited · United Kingdom
2.69Q13.16 1.48 down from 201811424%—
12Journal of Management AnalyticsTaylor & Francis · United Kingdom
2.65Q13.58 0.09 up from 2018527%—
13Production and Operations ManagementWiley · United States
2.43Q13.24 0.94 up from 201841527%$3,900
14Journal of Management ControlSpringer Science+Business Media · Germany
2.43Q12.84 0.27 up from 20184363%$3,190
15International Journal of Quality & Reliability ManagementEmerald Publishing Limited · United Kingdom
2.15Q13.32 1.02 up from 201828312%—
16Total Quality Management & Business ExcellenceTaylor & Francis · United Kingdom
2.03Q12.68 0.79 up from 201835927%—
17Decision SciencesWiley · United States
1.91Q12.24 0.34 up from 201813715%$3,090
18Journal of Accounting & Organizational ChangeEmerald Publishing Limited · United Kingdom
1.72Q11.71 0.37 up from 20187617%—
19Communications of the Association for Information SystemsAssociation for Information Systems · United States
1.70Q11.96 0.55 up from 201819643%—
20Information Systems ManagementTaylor & Francis · United States
1.57Q12.55 1.08 up from 201811427%—
21Qualitative Research in Accounting & ManagementEmerald Publishing Limited · United Kingdom
1.34Q11.38 0.76 down from 20186321%—
22Transportation JournalPenn State University Press · United States
1.31Q21.38no change7613%$2,940
23Paradigm A Management Research JournalSAGE Publishing · India
1.26Q20.92 0.14 up from 2018380%$3,400
24Pacific Asia journal of the Association for Information SystemsAssociation for Information Systems · United States
1.24Q21.37 0.64 up from 20185021%—
25Business Information ReviewSAGE Publishing · United States
1.21Q21.47 0.83 up from 20187329%$3,400
26International Journal of Health Care Quality AssuranceEmerald Publishing Limited · United Kingdom
1.14Q21.49 0.06 down from 201822114%—
27Journal of Decision SystemTaylor & Francis · United Kingdom
1.07Q21.73 0.62 up from 201812925%—
1.05Q21.16 0.17 up from 20187621%—
29Information Resources Management JournalIGI Global · United States
1.00Q21.03 0.08 up from 20185610%—
30OPSEARCHSpringer Science+Business Media · India
1.00Q22.02 1.04 up from 20181026%$3,290
0.94Q21.17 0.42 up from 201860100%—
32Journal of Systems Science and Systems EngineeringSpringer Science+Business Media · China
0.94Q21.61 0.18 up from 2018932%$3,890
33Journal of Information Technology Teaching CasesSAGE Publishing · United Kingdom
0.92Q20.88 0.35 up from 20184630%$3,400
34Queueing SystemsSpringer Science+Business Media · Netherlands
0.89Q21.29 0.41 up from 201812455%$3,090
35Accounting History ReviewTaylor & Francis · United Kingdom
0.87Q20.73 0.22 down from 20185030%$3,175
0.85Q21.48 0.69 up from 2018818%—
0.85Q20.68 0.27 down from 20184721%—
38Naval Research Logistics (NRL)Wiley · United States
0.79Q21.21 0.07 down from 201813029%$3,700
39Stochastic SystemsOAInstitute for Operations Research and the Management Sciences · United States
0.78Q20.67 0.66 down from 201852100%—
40Journal of Industrial and Management OptimizationOAAmerican Institute of Mathematical Sciences · United States
0.78Q21.21 0.17 up from 2018349100%—
41Accounting Historians JournalAcademy of Accounting Historians · United States
0.77Q20.96 0.62 up from 2018644%—
42Complex Systems Informatics and Modeling QuarterlyOARiga Technical University · Latvia
0.74Q30.85 0.37 down from 201873100%—
43The South African Journal of Industrial EngineeringOAStellenbosch University · South Africa
0.72Q31.05 0.05 up from 2018204100%$67
0.72Q31.45 0.45 up from 20186312%—
45IEEE Engineering Management ReviewInstitute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers · United States
0.67Q30.98 0.29 up from 201828833%$2,645
46Accounting HistorySAGE Publishing · United Kingdom
0.64Q31.10no change10718%$3,650
47International Journal of Management and Decision MakingInderscience Publishers · United Kingdom
0.61Q30.84 0.19 up from 20181163%—
48RAIRO - Operations ResearchOAEDP Sciences · France
0.60Q31.07 0.25 up from 201828731%$0 listed
49Journal of Enterprise TransformationTaylor & Francis · United States
0.58Q30.89 0.42 up from 201830——
50International Journal of Process Management and BenchmarkingInderscience Publishers · United Kingdom
0.58Q30.89 0.26 up from 20181310%—

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.

47 additional Management Information Systems 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.

Rising journals

At a glance

Indicator year: 2019. Publication window: 2016–2018. How these summaries are calculated

Ranked journals
82
Window papers (baseline)
40,140 +12.4% from indicator year 2016
Median OJR
0.76 +6.0% from indicator year 2016
Rising journals (2025)
3

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.

Category by indicator year
MeasureYear series20002001200220032004200520062007200820092010201120122013201420152016201720182019202020212022202320242025
Ranked journals3437374144474855596265697784828583878482828382837776
Window papers (baseline)10,40711,16112,02213,22814,58216,28418,17720,24822,05323,61024,96926,42428,64330,44532,56434,17435,71936,32337,89840,14044,09046,76448,86248,43651,69962,635
Median OJR0.910.830.860.970.931.0691.261.241.101.090.941.0541.0721.011.0520.850.710.7270.7200.760.700.750.620.7190.790.728

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.