Journal rankings · indicator year 2020
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Subfield ranking · 2020
Strategy and Management journal rankings 2020
214 ranked journals · Subfield in Business, Management and Accounting
Strategy and Management has 214 ranked journals in 2020. The median OJR rose 0.06 on 2019 to 1.47, above the world average of 1.00; Q1 starts at OJR 3.14. The top three are Journal of International Business Policy, California Management Review, and Journal of International Business Studies.
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)
214 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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1Journal of International Business PolicyPalgrave Macmillan · United Kingdom | 12.06Q1 | 11.11 4.48 down from 2019 | 37 | 67% | $3,190 | ||
2California Management ReviewSAGE Publishing · United States | 8.58Q1 | 17.55 9.83 up from 2019 | 82 | 42% | $3,900 | ||
3Journal of International Business StudiesPalgrave Macmillan · United Kingdom | 7.95Q1 | 9.13no change | 223 | 49% | $4,790 | ||
4Strategic Management JournalWiley · United States | 7.24Q1 | 8.57 1.53 up from 2019 | 317 | 38% | $4,250 | ||
5Journal of Intellectual CapitalEmerald Publishing Limited · United Kingdom | 6.72Q1 | 9.22 2.67 up from 2019 | 137 | 36% | — | ||
6Journal of Management Information SystemsTaylor & Francis · United States | 6.64Q1 | 10.05 2.57 up from 2019 | 126 | 30% | — | ||
7Long Range PlanningElsevier BV · United Kingdom | 6.56Q1 | 6.50 0.02 up from 2019 | 178 | 50% | $3,900 | ||
8Journal of World BusinessElsevier BV · United States | 6.23Q1 | 7.82 0.17 up from 2019 | 189 | 42% | $4,750 | ||
9TechnovationElsevier BV · United Kingdom | 6.20Q1 | 8.14 1.76 up from 2019 | 124 | 42% | $3,890 | ||
10Journal of Organization DesignOrganizational Design Community · United Kingdom | 6.08Q1 | 8.58 4.69 up from 2019 | 50 | 100% | $3,290 | ||
11European Business ReviewEmerald Publishing Limited · United Kingdom | 6.07Q1 | 11.13 7.64 up from 2019 | 121 | 34% | — | ||
12Supply Chain Management An International JournalEmerald Publishing Limited · United Kingdom | 5.86Q1 | 10.43 3.10 up from 2019 | 135 | 43% | — | ||
13Journal of Supply Chain ManagementWiley · United Kingdom | 5.78Q1 | 6.83 0.97 down from 2019 | 51 | 40% | $3,700 | ||
14Journal of Operations ManagementWiley · United States | 5.65Q1 | 6.74 0.78 up from 2019 | 121 | 39% | $3,520 | ||
15Business Strategy and the EnvironmentWiley · United Kingdom | 5.57Q1 | 9.40 2.56 up from 2019 | 364 | 40% | $4,480 | ||
16European Research on Management and Business EconomicsOAElsevier BV · Spain | 5.54Q1 | 6.34 0.68 up from 2019 | 62 | 100% | $1,350 | ||
17Corporate Social Responsibility and Environmental ManagementWiley · United Kingdom | 5.41Q1 | 8.14 1.37 up from 2019 | 375 | 27% | $4,100 | ||
18International Journal of Production EconomicsElsevier BV · Netherlands | 5.28Q1 | 8.56 1.82 up from 2019 | 955 | 38% | $4,420 | ||
19International Business ReviewElsevier BV · United Kingdom | 5.28Q1 | 7.53 2.25 up from 2019 | 268 | 52% | $4,550 | ||
20Academy of Management PerspectivesAcademy of Management · United States | 5.21Q1 | 6.69 1.87 up from 2019 | 125 | 33% | — | ||
21Organization ScienceInstitute for Operations Research and the Management Sciences · United States | 5.19Q1 | 6.10 1.30 up from 2019 | 216 | 31% | — | ||
22International Journal of Operations & Production ManagementEmerald Publishing Limited · United Kingdom | 5.07Q1 | 6.92no change | 251 | 57% | — | ||
23Global Strategy JournalWiley · United Kingdom | 4.92Q1 | 5.35 0.21 up from 2019 | 90 | 45% | $3,480 | ||
24Journal of Product Innovation ManagementWiley · United States | 4.91Q1 | 7.06 1.69 up from 2019 | 137 | 59% | $3,400 | ||
25Journal of CompetitivenessOATomas Baťa University in Zlín · Czechia | 4.84Q1 | 5.91 1.44 up from 2019 | 114 | 100% | $485 | ||
26Journal of Business LogisticsWiley · United States | 4.80Q1 | 6.98 1.48 up from 2019 | 60 | 36% | $3,570 | ||
27International Journal of Systems Science Operations & LogisticsTaylor & Francis · United Kingdom | 4.80Q1 | 10.67 5.23 up from 2019 | 71 | 4% | — | ||
28BRQ Business Research QuarterlyOASAGE Publishing · Spain | 4.65Q1 | 5.61 1.36 up from 2019 | 77 | 100% | $0 listed | ||
29Industrial Marketing ManagementElsevier BV · United States | 4.62Q1 | 7.13 1.29 up from 2019 | 506 | 45% | $3,990 | ||
30Journal of Purchasing and Supply ManagementElsevier BV · United Kingdom | 4.44Q1 | 6.27 0.94 up from 2019 | 110 | 41% | $3,280 | ||
31International Journal of Management ReviewsWiley · United Kingdom | 4.43Q1 | 8.44 0.93 down from 2019 | 68 | 63% | $4,220 | ||
32Journal of Manufacturing Technology ManagementEmerald Publishing Limited · United Kingdom | 4.40Q1 | 9.02 3.45 up from 2019 | 216 | 23% | — | ||
33International Journal of Corporate Social ResponsibilityOASpringer Nature · Switzerland | 4.40Q1 | 6.33 3.67 up from 2019 | 33 | 100% | $1,790 | ||
34International Journal of Physical Distribution & Logistics ManagementEmerald Publishing Limited | 4.34Q1 | 7.82 1.14 up from 2019 | 154 | 27% | — | ||
35Meditari Accountancy ResearchEmerald Publishing Limited · United Kingdom | 4.29Q1 | 3.73 1.45 down from 2019 | 121 | 33% | — | ||
36Strategic OrganizationSAGE Publishing · United Kingdom | 4.12Q1 | 4.54 0.20 up from 2019 | 84 | 41% | $3,900 | ||
37Journal of International ManagementElsevier BV · Netherlands | 3.92Q1 | 4.75 0.13 down from 2019 | 90 | 48% | $4,020 | ||
38Business & SocietySAGE Publishing · United States | 3.87Q1 | 4.92 1.51 up from 2019 | 122 | 56% | $3,900 | ||
39Production Planning & ControlTaylor & Francis · United Kingdom | 3.86Q1 | 6.71 0.55 up from 2019 | 346 | 49% | — | ||
40The International Journal of Logistics ManagementEmerald Publishing Limited · United Kingdom | 3.80Q1 | 6.97 2.07 up from 2019 | 179 | 27% | — | ||
41International Marketing ReviewEmerald Publishing Limited · United Kingdom | 3.79Q1 | 5.44 1.40 up from 2019 | 172 | 40% | — | ||
42Transnational corporationsUnited Nations Publications | 3.73Q1 | 2.82 0.15 up from 2019 | 55 | 14% | — | ||
43Management DecisionEmerald Publishing Limited · United Kingdom | 3.65Q1 | 5.18 1.52 up from 2019 | 531 | 20% | — | ||
44Industrial Management & Data SystemsEmerald Publishing Limited · United Kingdom | 3.61Q1 | 4.92 0.22 up from 2019 | 349 | 24% | — | ||
45Multinational Business ReviewEmerald Publishing Limited · United Kingdom | 3.56Q1 | 3.71 0.06 down from 2019 | 67 | 24% | — | ||
46Asia Pacific Management ReviewElsevier BV · Taiwan | 3.52Q1 | 3.31 0.19 up from 2019 | 101 | 100% | $2,000 | ||
47R and D ManagementWiley · United Kingdom | 3.38Q1 | 3.58 0.41 up from 2019 | 121 | 53% | $3,620 | ||
48Social Responsibility JournalEmerald Publishing Limited · United Kingdom | 3.35Q1 | 3.79 1.04 up from 2019 | 237 | 16% | — | ||
49Review of Managerial ScienceSpringer Science+Business Media · Germany | 3.33Q1 | 4.77 1.93 up from 2019 | 147 | 61% | $3,190 | ||
50Journal of Enterprise Information ManagementEmerald Publishing Limited · United Kingdom | 3.31Q1 | 6.29 1.35 up from 2019 | 165 | 14% | — |
Subfields of Business, Management and Accounting, with Strategy and Management 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.
52 additional Strategy and Management 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
- 214
- Window papers (baseline)
- 106,972 +11.5% from indicator year 2017
- Median OJR
- 1.47 +11.6% from indicator year 2017
- Rising journals (2025)
- 13
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 | 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.