Journal rankings · indicator year 2020
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Field ranking · 2020
Business, Management and Accounting journal rankings 2020
736 ranked journals · Field in Social Sciences
Business, Management and Accounting has 736 ranked journals in 2020. The median OJR rose 0.10 on 2019 to 1.49, above the world average of 1.00; Q1 starts at OJR 2.80. The top three are Academy of Management Annals, Journal of International Business Policy, and The Journal of Strategic Information Systems.
Ranks and citation indicators: 2020. 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 2017–2019, the window the 2020 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)
Up to Social Sciences736 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 2019. This is OpenJournalRank’s own count, not Clarivate’s Journal Impact Factor. | Citable documents (articles, reviews and conference papers) published in 2017–2019, the window the 2020 OJR is computed on. A journal needs at least 30 to be ranked. | Share of the journal’s 2017–2019 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 2011 to 2020. | Compare |
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1Academy of Management AnnalsRoutledge · United States | 18.21Q1 | 18.24 0.24 down from 2019 | 90 | 48% | — | ||
2Journal of International Business PolicyPalgrave Macmillan · United Kingdom | 12.06Q1 | 11.11 4.48 down from 2019 | 37 | 67% | $3,190 | ||
3The Journal of Strategic Information SystemsElsevier BV · Netherlands | 9.99Q1 | 14.02 6.61 up from 2019 | 72 | 52% | $4,160 | ||
4Journal of Business VenturingElsevier BV · Netherlands | 9.52Q1 | 12.73 4.13 up from 2019 | 165 | 37% | $4,130 | ||
5California Management ReviewSAGE Publishing · United States | 8.58Q1 | 17.55 9.83 up from 2019 | 82 | 42% | $3,900 | ||
6Strategic Entrepreneurship JournalWiley · United States | 7.97Q1 | 5.30 2.46 down from 2019 | 82 | 41% | $4,100 | ||
7Journal of International Business StudiesPalgrave Macmillan · United Kingdom | 7.95Q1 | 9.13no change | 223 | 49% | $4,790 | ||
8Journal of MarketingSAGE Publishing · United Kingdom | 7.90Q1 | 10.51 2.77 up from 2019 | 143 | 32% | $5,400 | ||
9Journal of the Academy of Marketing ScienceSpringer Science+Business Media · United States | 7.63Q1 | 10.00 1.21 up from 2019 | 195 | 52% | $4,790 | ||
10Strategic Management JournalWiley · United States | 7.24Q1 | 8.57 1.53 up from 2019 | 317 | 38% | $4,250 | ||
11Journal of AdvertisingTaylor & Francis · United States | 7.17Q1 | 7.37 2.60 down from 2019 | 111 | 41% | — | ||
12Journal of service managementEmerald Publishing Limited · United Kingdom | 7.13Q1 | 13.58 6.17 up from 2019 | 122 | 45% | — | ||
13Journal of Accounting and EconomicsElsevier BV · Netherlands | 7.07Q1 | 6.22 0.87 up from 2019 | 122 | 21% | $4,170 | ||
14Journal of ManagementSAGE Publishing · United States | 6.90Q1 | 10.69 3.70 up from 2019 | 188 | 46% | $3,900 | ||
15Academy of Management JournalAcademy of Management · United States | 6.90Q1 | 8.39 0.98 up from 2019 | 247 | 19% | — | ||
16Journal of Intellectual CapitalEmerald Publishing Limited · United Kingdom | 6.72Q1 | 9.22 2.67 up from 2019 | 137 | 36% | — | ||
17Journal of Service ResearchSAGE Publishing · United States | 6.67Q1 | 10.57 3.74 up from 2019 | 93 | 60% | $3,900 | ||
18Journal of Management Information SystemsTaylor & Francis · United States | 6.64Q1 | 10.05 2.57 up from 2019 | 126 | 30% | — | ||
19International Journal of Hospitality ManagementElsevier BV · United Kingdom | 6.64Q1 | 9.33 1.71 up from 2019 | 579 | 41% | $4,270 | ||
20Entrepreneurship Theory and PracticeSAGE Publishing · United States | 6.56Q1 | 7.43 2.21 up from 2019 | 134 | 55% | $3,900 | ||
21Long Range PlanningElsevier BV · United Kingdom | 6.56Q1 | 6.50 0.02 up from 2019 | 178 | 50% | $3,900 | ||
22Journal of World BusinessElsevier BV · United States | 6.23Q1 | 7.82 0.17 up from 2019 | 189 | 42% | $4,750 | ||
23TechnovationElsevier BV · United Kingdom | 6.20Q1 | 8.14 1.76 up from 2019 | 124 | 42% | $3,890 | ||
24Journal of Management StudiesWiley · United Kingdom | 6.16Q1 | 7.27 1.83 up from 2019 | 161 | 63% | $4,150 | ||
25Journal of Organization DesignOrganizational Design Community · United Kingdom | 6.08Q1 | 8.58 4.69 up from 2019 | 50 | 100% | $3,290 | ||
26European Business ReviewEmerald Publishing Limited · United Kingdom | 6.07Q1 | 11.13 7.64 up from 2019 | 121 | 34% | — | ||
27Journal of Retailing and Consumer ServicesElsevier BV · United Kingdom | 6.02Q1 | 8.54 1.78 up from 2019 | 638 | 31% | $4,510 | ||
28The British Accounting ReviewElsevier BV · United Kingdom | 5.97Q1 | 4.41 0.13 down from 2019 | 115 | 38% | $3,770 | ||
29Journal of Accounting LiteratureElsevier BV · United Kingdom | 5.89Q1 | 5.97 1.24 up from 2019 | 41 | — | $3,000 | ||
30Journal of Business ResearchElsevier BV · United States | 5.88Q1 | 7.81 1.89 up from 2019 | 1,770 | 40% | $4,440 | ||
31Supply Chain Management An International JournalEmerald Publishing Limited · United Kingdom | 5.86Q1 | 10.43 3.10 up from 2019 | 135 | 43% | — | ||
32Journal of International Accounting Auditing and TaxationElsevier BV · United States | 5.79Q1 | 4.72 1.32 up from 2019 | 59 | 37% | $3,490 | ||
33Academy of Management ReviewAcademy of Management · United States | 5.79Q1 | 6.88 0.09 up from 2019 | 160 | 20% | — | ||
34Journal of Supply Chain ManagementWiley · United Kingdom | 5.78Q1 | 6.83 0.97 down from 2019 | 51 | 40% | $3,700 | ||
35Small Business EconomicsSpringer Science+Business Media · Netherlands | 5.69Q1 | 5.86 0.15 up from 2019 | 453 | 53% | $3,090 | ||
36Journal of Operations ManagementWiley · United States | 5.65Q1 | 6.74 0.78 up from 2019 | 121 | 39% | $3,520 | ||
37Journal of Vocational BehaviorElsevier BV · United States | 5.63Q1 | 6.96 0.94 up from 2019 | 313 | 49% | $4,690 | ||
38Journal of International MarketingSAGE Publishing · United States | 5.59Q1 | 7.46 0.16 up from 2019 | 63 | 39% | $5,400 | ||
39Business Strategy and the EnvironmentWiley · United Kingdom | 5.57Q1 | 9.40 2.56 up from 2019 | 364 | 40% | $4,480 | ||
40European Research on Management and Business EconomicsOAElsevier BV · Spain | 5.54Q1 | 6.34 0.68 up from 2019 | 62 | 100% | $1,350 | ||
41International Journal of Accounting Information SystemsElsevier BV · United States | 5.52Q1 | 7.34 3.42 up from 2019 | 51 | 20% | $4,130 | ||
42International Small Business Journal Researching EntrepreneurshipSAGE Publishing · United Kingdom | 5.43Q1 | 6.34 1.32 up from 2019 | 102 | 59% | $3,900 | ||
43Human Resource Management JournalWiley · United Kingdom | 5.42Q1 | 5.15 0.59 down from 2019 | 129 | 52% | $4,250 | ||
44Corporate Social Responsibility and Environmental ManagementWiley · United Kingdom | 5.41Q1 | 8.14 1.37 up from 2019 | 375 | 27% | $4,100 | ||
45International Journal of Production EconomicsElsevier BV · Netherlands | 5.28Q1 | 8.56 1.82 up from 2019 | 955 | 38% | $4,420 | ||
46International Business ReviewElsevier BV · United Kingdom | 5.28Q1 | 7.53 2.25 up from 2019 | 268 | 52% | $4,550 | ||
46Business & Information Systems EngineeringSpringer Nature · Germany | 5.28Q1 | 5.36 1.31 down from 2019 | 143 | 84% | $4,090 | ||
48Journal of Organizational BehaviorWiley · United Kingdom | 5.24Q1 | 7.50 1.30 up from 2019 | 205 | 30% | $4,250 | ||
49Academy of Management PerspectivesAcademy of Management · United States | 5.21Q1 | 6.69 1.87 up from 2019 | 125 | 33% | — | ||
50Organization ScienceInstitute for Operations Research and the Management Sciences · United States | 5.19Q1 | 6.10 1.30 up from 2019 | 216 | 31% | — |
Subfields of Business, Management and Accounting, compared.
- Strategy and Management214
- Accounting145
- Organizational Behavior and Human Resource Management139
- Marketing86
- Management Information Systems82
- Management of Technology and Innovation59
- Tourism, Leisure and Hospitality Management7
- Business and International Management4
- Industrial relations0
Journals
Citations made in 2020. Corpus-wide, 86.1% 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 2017–2019, 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: 2020. Publication window: 2017–2019. How these summaries are calculated
- Ranked journals
- 736
- Window papers (baseline)
- 378,348 +14.0% from indicator year 2017
- Median OJR
- 1.49 +8.3% from indicator year 2017
- Rising journals (2025)
- 44Comparison-group list (44)
Window papers are the baseline paper population: citable papers (articles, reviews and conference papers) from 2017–2019 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.