Journal rankings · indicator year 2020
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Subfield ranking · 2020
Management Information Systems journal rankings 2020
82 ranked journals · Subfield in Business, Management and Accounting
Management Information Systems has 82 ranked journals in 2020. The median OJR fell 0.06 on 2019 to 0.70, below the world average of 1.00; Q1 starts at OJR 1.62. The top three are The Journal of Strategic Information Systems, International Journal of Accounting Information Systems, and Business & Information Systems Engineering.
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 of Business, Management and Accounting (9)
82 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 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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1The Journal of Strategic Information SystemsElsevier BV · Netherlands | 9.99Q1 | 14.02 6.61 up from 2019 | 72 | 52% | $4,160 | ||
2International Journal of Accounting Information SystemsElsevier BV · United States | 5.52Q1 | 7.34 3.42 up from 2019 | 51 | 20% | $4,130 | ||
3Business & Information Systems EngineeringSpringer Nature · Germany | 5.28Q1 | 5.36 1.31 down from 2019 | 143 | 84% | $4,090 | ||
4Accounting Auditing & Accountability JournalEmerald Publishing Limited · United Kingdom | 3.92Q1 | 4.14 0.63 down from 2019 | 311 | 48% | — | ||
5Manufacturing & Service Operations ManagementInstitute for Operations Research and the Management Sciences · United States | 3.70Q1 | 5.76 0.42 up from 2019 | 205 | 15% | — | ||
6Critical Perspectives on AccountingElsevier BV · United Kingdom | 3.17Q1 | 3.99 0.66 up from 2019 | 139 | 51% | $4,460 | ||
7International Journal of Lean Six SigmaEmerald Publishing Limited · United Kingdom | 2.80Q1 | 4.84 1.68 up from 2019 | 127 | 13% | — | ||
8Business Process Management JournalEmerald Publishing Limited · United Kingdom | 2.73Q1 | 4.52 0.79 up from 2019 | 278 | 28% | — | ||
9Production and Operations ManagementWiley · United States | 2.66Q1 | 3.86 0.62 up from 2019 | 422 | 19% | $3,900 | ||
10Journal of Management AnalyticsTaylor & Francis · United Kingdom | 2.63Q1 | 5.41 1.84 up from 2019 | 60 | 9% | — | ||
11Information Systems and e-Business ManagementSpringer Science+Business Media · Germany | 2.57Q1 | 1.89 1.45 down from 2019 | 86 | 44% | $3,090 | ||
12Journal of Information Technology Case and Application ResearchTaylor & Francis · United States | 2.42Q1 | 5.29 4.61 up from 2019 | 44 | 24% | — | ||
13Information Systems ManagementTaylor & Francis · United States | 2.39Q1 | 2.54 0.01 down from 2019 | 79 | 22% | — | ||
14Management Accounting ResearchElsevier BV · United Kingdom | 2.33Q1 | 2.69 0.20 down from 2019 | 50 | 30% | $3,690 | ||
15The TQM JournalEmerald Publishing Limited · United Kingdom | 2.29Q1 | 4.05 0.30 down from 2019 | 179 | 24% | — | ||
16Total Quality Management & Business ExcellenceTaylor & Francis · United Kingdom | 2.24Q1 | 3.38 0.71 up from 2019 | 329 | 31% | — | ||
17Decision SciencesWiley · United States | 2.10Q1 | 2.78 0.54 up from 2019 | 133 | 20% | $3,090 | ||
18International Journal of Quality & Reliability ManagementEmerald Publishing Limited · United Kingdom | 1.96Q1 | 3.43 0.11 up from 2019 | 334 | 10% | — | ||
19Journal of Management ControlSpringer Science+Business Media · Germany | 1.92Q1 | 2.97 0.13 up from 2019 | 47 | 74% | $3,190 | ||
20Journal of Accounting & Organizational ChangeEmerald Publishing Limited · United Kingdom | 1.72Q1 | 2.15 0.44 up from 2019 | 81 | 25% | — | ||
21Communications of the Association for Information SystemsAssociation for Information Systems · United States | 1.62Q1 | 1.74 0.22 down from 2019 | 195 | 50% | — | ||
22Business Information ReviewSAGE Publishing · United States | 1.50Q2 | 1.29 0.18 down from 2019 | 69 | 40% | $3,400 | ||
23Information Resources Management JournalIGI Global · United States | 1.48Q2 | 1.63 0.59 up from 2019 | 48 | 0% | — | ||
24Qualitative Research in Accounting & ManagementEmerald Publishing Limited · United Kingdom | 1.37Q2 | 1.96 0.58 up from 2019 | 69 | 41% | — | ||
25International Journal of Enterprise Information SystemsOAIGI Global · United States | 1.35Q2 | 2.14 0.65 up from 2019 | 81 | 8% | — | ||
26Pacific Asia journal of the Association for Information SystemsAssociation for Information Systems · United States | 1.28Q2 | 1.56 0.19 up from 2019 | 50 | 46% | — | ||
27Journal of Decision SystemTaylor & Francis · United Kingdom | 1.20Q2 | 2.43 0.70 up from 2019 | 63 | 21% | — | ||
28International Journal of Health Care Quality AssuranceEmerald Publishing Limited · United Kingdom | 1.08Q2 | 1.53 0.03 up from 2019 | 263 | 17% | — | ||
| 1.04Q2 | 0.89 0.28 down from 2019 | 61 | 100% | — | |||
30Social and Environmental Accountability JournalRoutledge · United Kingdom | 1.01Q2 | 1.45 0.29 up from 2019 | 65 | 30% | — | ||
31Naval Research Logistics (NRL)Wiley · United States | 1.00Q2 | 1.78 0.56 up from 2019 | 127 | 25% | $3,700 | ||
32Journal of Systems Science and Systems EngineeringSpringer Science+Business Media · China | 0.95Q2 | 1.62 0.01 up from 2019 | 106 | 9% | $3,890 | ||
33IEEE Engineering Management ReviewInstitute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers · United States | 0.92Q2 | 1.86 0.88 up from 2019 | 304 | 48% | $2,645 | ||
34Paradigm A Management Research JournalSAGE Publishing · India | 0.89Q2 | 1.04 0.12 up from 2019 | 38 | 20% | $3,400 | ||
35OPSEARCHSpringer Science+Business Media · India | 0.88Q2 | 1.59 0.43 down from 2019 | 142 | 6% | $3,290 | ||
36Transportation JournalPenn State University Press · United States | 0.79Q2 | 1.26 0.12 down from 2019 | 63 | 5% | $2,940 | ||
37Accounting HistorySAGE Publishing · United Kingdom | 0.77Q2 | 0.96 0.14 down from 2019 | 105 | 23% | $3,650 | ||
38Journal of Industrial and Management OptimizationOAAmerican Institute of Mathematical Sciences · United States | 0.77Q2 | 1.46 0.25 up from 2019 | 397 | 100% | — | ||
39RAIRO - Operations ResearchOAEDP Sciences · France | 0.75Q2 | 1.53 0.46 up from 2019 | 327 | 95% | $0 listed | ||
40Queueing SystemsSpringer Science+Business Media · Netherlands | 0.75Q2 | 1.33 0.04 up from 2019 | 126 | 41% | $3,090 | ||
41Accounting History ReviewTaylor & Francis · United Kingdom | 0.71Q2 | 0.83 0.10 up from 2019 | 43 | 23% | $3,175 | ||
42Journal of Information Technology Teaching CasesSAGE Publishing · United Kingdom | 0.69Q3 | 0.85 0.03 down from 2019 | 42 | 33% | $3,400 | ||
43International Journal of Information Systems and Supply Chain ManagementOAIGI Global · United States | 0.68Q3 | 1.54 0.09 up from 2019 | 61 | 0% | — | ||
44International Journal of Advanced Operations ManagementInderscience Publishers · United Kingdom | 0.65Q3 | 1.31 0.84 up from 2019 | 94 | 3% | — | ||
45The South African Journal of Industrial EngineeringOAStellenbosch University · South Africa | 0.64Q3 | 1.17 0.12 up from 2019 | 186 | 100% | $67 | ||
46International Journal of Six Sigma and Competitive AdvantageInderscience Publishers · United Kingdom | 0.59Q3 | 0.82 0.68 up from 2019 | 35 | 0% | — | ||
47International Journal of Business Intelligence ResearchOAIGI Global · United States | 0.57Q3 | 0.91 0.32 up from 2019 | 30 | 73% | — | ||
48International Journal of Management and Decision MakingInderscience Publishers · United Kingdom | 0.57Q3 | 0.86 0.02 up from 2019 | 126 | 12% | — | ||
49Systèmes d information & managementOAPublisher not listed | 0.51Q3 | 0.57 0.02 down from 2019 | 78 | 100% | — | ||
50International Journal of Strategic Information Technology and ApplicationsIGI Global · United States | 0.50Q3 | 1.07 0.43 up from 2019 | 49 | — | — |
Subfields of Business, Management and Accounting, with Management Information Systems highlighted.
- 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.
44 additional Management Information Systems 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
- 82
- Window papers (baseline)
- 44,090 +21.4% from indicator year 2017
- Median OJR
- 0.70 -4.0% from indicator year 2017
- Rising journals (2025)
- 3
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 |
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| Ranked journals | 34 | 37 | 37 | 41 | 44 | 47 | 48 | 55 | 59 | 62 | 65 | 69 | 77 | 84 | 82 | 85 | 83 | 87 | 84 | 82 | 82 | 83 | 82 | 83 | 77 | 76 | |
| Window papers (baseline) | 10,407 | 11,161 | 12,022 | 13,228 | 14,582 | 16,284 | 18,177 | 20,248 | 22,053 | 23,610 | 24,969 | 26,424 | 28,643 | 30,445 | 32,564 | 34,174 | 35,719 | 36,323 | 37,898 | 40,140 | 44,090 | 46,764 | 48,862 | 48,436 | 51,699 | 62,635 | |
| Median OJR | 0.91 | 0.83 | 0.86 | 0.97 | 0.93 | 1.069 | 1.26 | 1.24 | 1.10 | 1.09 | 0.94 | 1.054 | 1.072 | 1.01 | 1.052 | 0.85 | 0.71 | 0.727 | 0.720 | 0.76 | 0.70 | 0.75 | 0.62 | 0.719 | 0.79 | 0.728 |
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.