Journal rankings · indicator year 2021
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Field ranking · 2021
Business, Management and Accounting journal rankings 2021
728 ranked journals · Field in Social Sciences
Business, Management and Accounting has 728 ranked journals in 2021. The median OJR rose 0.08 on 2020 to 1.56, above the world average of 1.00; Q1 starts at OJR 2.90. The top three are Academy of Management Annals, California Management Review, and The Journal of Strategic Information Systems.
Ranks and citation indicators: 2021. 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 2018–2020, the window the 2021 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 2020. This is OpenJournalRank’s own count, not Clarivate’s Journal Impact Factor. | Citable documents (articles, reviews and conference papers) published in 2018–2020, the window the 2021 OJR is computed on. A journal needs at least 30 to be ranked. | Share of the journal’s 2018–2020 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 2012 to 2021. | Compare |
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1Academy of Management AnnalsRoutledge · United States | 15.60Q1 | 21.47 3.23 up from 2020 | 81 | 30% | — | ||
2California Management ReviewSAGE Publishing · United States | 12.29Q1 | 20.36 2.80 up from 2020 | 79 | 20% | $3,900 | ||
3The Journal of Strategic Information SystemsElsevier BV · Netherlands | 11.03Q1 | 21.43 7.40 up from 2020 | 66 | 35% | $4,160 | ||
4The Review of Corporate Finance StudiesOxford University Press · United States | 10.59Q1 | 14.80 12.35 up from 2020 | 51 | 43% | $4,028 | ||
5Journal of International Business PolicyPalgrave Macmillan · United Kingdom | 10.46Q1 | 10.95 0.16 down from 2020 | 70 | 84% | $3,190 | ||
6European Business ReviewEmerald Publishing Limited · United Kingdom | 9.29Q1 | 4.44 6.69 down from 2020 | 154 | 38% | — | ||
7Journal of Business VenturingElsevier BV · Netherlands | 9.21Q1 | 11.87 0.85 down from 2020 | 158 | 37% | $4,130 | ||
8Journal of the Academy of Marketing ScienceSpringer Science+Business Media · United States | 7.79Q1 | 17.26 7.26 up from 2020 | 170 | 58% | $4,790 | ||
9Journal of MarketingSAGE Publishing · United Kingdom | 7.75Q1 | 16.11 5.61 up from 2020 | 161 | 40% | $5,400 | ||
10Journal of service managementEmerald Publishing Limited · United Kingdom | 7.34Q1 | 12.63 0.95 down from 2020 | 151 | 66% | — | ||
11International Journal of Hospitality ManagementElsevier BV · United Kingdom | 7.29Q1 | 12.50 3.17 up from 2020 | 769 | 44% | $4,270 | ||
12Strategic Management JournalWiley · United States | 7.28Q1 | 9.06 0.49 up from 2020 | 329 | 34% | $4,250 | ||
13Journal of International Business StudiesPalgrave Macmillan · United Kingdom | 7.22Q1 | 12.04 2.91 up from 2020 | 234 | 63% | $4,790 | ||
14Journal of Vocational BehaviorElsevier BV · United States | 7.16Q1 | 13.36 6.40 up from 2020 | 295 | 39% | $4,690 | ||
15Journal of Business ResearchElsevier BV · United States | 7.16Q1 | 12.58 4.77 up from 2020 | 2,076 | 41% | $4,440 | ||
16Journal of ManagementSAGE Publishing · United States | 6.99Q1 | 12.24 1.55 up from 2020 | 186 | 40% | $3,900 | ||
17TechnovationElsevier BV · United Kingdom | 6.75Q1 | 8.53 0.39 up from 2020 | 142 | 49% | $3,890 | ||
18Journal of Management StudiesWiley · United Kingdom | 6.71Q1 | 9.80 2.53 up from 2020 | 213 | 50% | $4,150 | ||
19Entrepreneurship Theory and PracticeSAGE Publishing · United States | 6.68Q1 | 9.92 2.49 up from 2020 | 154 | 54% | $3,900 | ||
20Journal of Management Information SystemsTaylor & Francis · United States | 6.61Q1 | 8.59 1.46 down from 2020 | 126 | 26% | — | ||
21Journal of Retailing and Consumer ServicesElsevier BV · United Kingdom | 6.50Q1 | 12.38 3.84 up from 2020 | 820 | 33% | $4,510 | ||
22Journal of Service ResearchSAGE Publishing · United States | 6.44Q1 | 9.51 1.06 down from 2020 | 102 | 70% | $3,900 | ||
23Supply Chain Management An International JournalEmerald Publishing Limited · United Kingdom | 6.40Q1 | 12.12 1.69 up from 2020 | 154 | 46% | — | ||
24Journal of Product Innovation ManagementWiley · United States | 6.32Q1 | 9.96 2.90 up from 2020 | 95 | 47% | $3,400 | ||
25Journal of Accounting and EconomicsElsevier BV · Netherlands | 6.25Q1 | 5.60 0.62 down from 2020 | 124 | 16% | $4,170 | ||
26Academy of Management ReviewAcademy of Management · United States | 6.18Q1 | 9.55 2.67 up from 2020 | 185 | 28% | — | ||
27Academy of Management JournalAcademy of Management · United States | 6.14Q1 | 8.68 0.29 up from 2020 | 242 | 18% | — | ||
28International Journal of Production EconomicsElsevier BV · Netherlands | 6.03Q1 | 13.51 4.95 up from 2020 | 912 | 34% | $4,420 | ||
29International Small Business Journal Researching EntrepreneurshipSAGE Publishing · United Kingdom | 5.81Q1 | 8.79 2.45 up from 2020 | 122 | 71% | $3,900 | ||
30Industrial Marketing ManagementElsevier BV · United States | 5.78Q1 | 10.69 3.56 up from 2020 | 565 | 42% | $3,990 | ||
31Journal of World BusinessElsevier BV · United States | 5.71Q1 | 10.08 2.25 up from 2020 | 167 | 57% | $4,750 | ||
32Global Strategy JournalWiley · United Kingdom | 5.61Q1 | 9.62 4.27 up from 2020 | 71 | 35% | $3,480 | ||
33European Research on Management and Business EconomicsOAElsevier BV · Spain | 5.61Q1 | 10.02 3.68 up from 2020 | 64 | 100% | $1,350 | ||
34Journal of Behavioral and Experimental FinanceElsevier BV · Netherlands | 5.59Q1 | 10.75 8.50 up from 2020 | 210 | 39% | $4,290 | ||
35Business Strategy and the EnvironmentWiley · United Kingdom | 5.58Q1 | 11.69 2.30 up from 2020 | 564 | 54% | $4,480 | ||
36Academy of Management PerspectivesAcademy of Management · United States | 5.55Q1 | 6.53 0.15 down from 2020 | 125 | 25% | — | ||
37Corporate Social Responsibility and Environmental ManagementWiley · United Kingdom | 5.38Q1 | 9.90 1.76 up from 2020 | 507 | 50% | $4,100 | ||
38Journal of Business Venturing InsightsElsevier BV · United States | 5.37Q1 | 9.98 5.74 up from 2020 | 137 | 43% | $2,890 | ||
39International Journal of Accounting Information SystemsElsevier BV · United States | 5.36Q1 | 7.97 0.63 up from 2020 | 53 | 30% | $4,130 | ||
40International Journal of Operations & Production ManagementEmerald Publishing Limited · United Kingdom | 5.36Q1 | 11.36 4.44 up from 2020 | 224 | 67% | — | ||
41Small Business EconomicsSpringer Science+Business Media · Netherlands | 5.34Q1 | 6.79 0.93 up from 2020 | 438 | 74% | $3,090 | ||
42Journal of Organizational BehaviorWiley · United Kingdom | 5.33Q1 | 9.39 1.89 up from 2020 | 195 | 35% | $4,250 | ||
43International Journal of Corporate Social ResponsibilityOASpringer Nature · Switzerland | 5.28Q1 | 12.44 6.10 up from 2020 | 31 | 100% | $1,790 | ||
44Journal of Manufacturing Technology ManagementEmerald Publishing Limited · United Kingdom | 5.28Q1 | 9.99 0.97 up from 2020 | 225 | 36% | — | ||
45Journal of Accounting LiteratureElsevier BV · United Kingdom | 5.26Q1 | 3.00 2.97 down from 2020 | 31 | 0% | $3,000 | ||
46International Business ReviewElsevier BV · United Kingdom | 5.21Q1 | 9.61 2.08 up from 2020 | 251 | 46% | $4,550 | ||
47Human Resource Management ReviewElsevier BV · United States | 5.18Q1 | 10.89 3.49 up from 2020 | 124 | 39% | $5,170 | ||
48Journal of International Accounting Auditing and TaxationElsevier BV · United States | 5.14Q1 | 5.00 0.28 up from 2020 | 76 | 33% | $3,490 | ||
49Accounting EducationTaylor & Francis · United Kingdom | 5.13Q1 | 7.51 3.45 up from 2020 | 71 | 29% | $3,175 | ||
50Journal of AdvertisingTaylor & Francis · United States | 4.97Q1 | 8.24 0.86 up from 2020 | 113 | 36% | — |
Subfields of Business, Management and Accounting, compared.
- Strategy and Management210
- Accounting141
- Organizational Behavior and Human Resource Management137
- Management Information Systems83
- Marketing82
- Management of Technology and Innovation63
- Tourism, Leisure and Hospitality Management7
- Business and International Management5
- Industrial relations0
Journals
Citations made in 2021. Corpus-wide, 87.7% of core-journal articles and reviews published that year have at least one matched reference; the share varies by journal and field.
221 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 2018–2020, 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: 2021. Publication window: 2018–2020. How these summaries are calculated
- Ranked journals
- 728
- Window papers (baseline)
- 410,151 +21.0% from indicator year 2018
- Median OJR
- 1.56 +14.2% from indicator year 2018
- Rising journals (2025)
- 44Comparison-group list (44)
Window papers are the baseline paper population: citable papers (articles, reviews and conference papers) from 2018–2020 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.