Journal rankings · indicator year 2021
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Subfield ranking · 2021
Organizational Behavior and Human Resource Management journal rankings 2021
137 ranked journals · Subfield in Business, Management and Accounting
Organizational Behavior and Human Resource Management has 137 ranked journals in 2021. Its median journal scores above the world average: OJR 1.79 against 1.00, up 0.04 on 2020. A journal needs OJR 2.75 to reach Q1. The top three are Academy of Management Annals, International Journal of Hospitality Management, and Journal of Vocational Behavior.
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 of Business, Management and Accounting (9)
137 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 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% | — | ||
2International Journal of Hospitality ManagementElsevier BV · United Kingdom | 7.29Q1 | 12.50 3.17 up from 2020 | 769 | 44% | $4,270 | ||
3Journal of Vocational BehaviorElsevier BV · United States | 7.16Q1 | 13.36 6.40 up from 2020 | 295 | 39% | $4,690 | ||
4Journal of ManagementSAGE Publishing · United States | 6.99Q1 | 12.24 1.55 up from 2020 | 186 | 40% | $3,900 | ||
5Journal of Management StudiesWiley · United Kingdom | 6.71Q1 | 9.80 2.53 up from 2020 | 213 | 50% | $4,150 | ||
6Academy of Management ReviewAcademy of Management · United States | 6.18Q1 | 9.55 2.67 up from 2020 | 185 | 28% | — | ||
7Academy of Management JournalAcademy of Management · United States | 6.14Q1 | 8.68 0.29 up from 2020 | 242 | 18% | — | ||
8Journal of Organizational BehaviorWiley · United Kingdom | 5.33Q1 | 9.39 1.89 up from 2020 | 195 | 35% | $4,250 | ||
9Human Resource Management ReviewElsevier BV · United States | 5.18Q1 | 10.89 3.49 up from 2020 | 124 | 39% | $5,170 | ||
10Human Resource Management JournalWiley · United Kingdom | 4.52Q1 | 7.18 2.03 up from 2020 | 140 | 64% | $4,250 | ||
11Family Business ReviewSAGE Publishing · United Kingdom | 4.50Q1 | 8.45 0.65 up from 2020 | 59 | 33% | $3,900 | ||
12Globalization and HealthOABioMed Central · United Kingdom | 4.29Q1 | 14.68 8.94 up from 2020 | 323 | 100% | $3,190 | ||
13Human Resource ManagementWiley · United States | 4.26Q1 | 6.55 1.50 up from 2020 | 135 | 36% | $4,150 | ||
14Organizational Research MethodsSAGE Publishing · United States | 4.24Q1 | 7.92 2.34 up from 2020 | 99 | 29% | $3,900 | ||
15European Management JournalElsevier BV · Germany | 3.99Q1 | 7.77 1.64 up from 2020 | 230 | 46% | $2,160 | ||
16Journal of Business and PsychologySpringer Science+Business Media · United States | 3.70Q1 | 6.03 0.67 up from 2020 | 159 | 50% | $3,090 | ||
17Human RelationsSAGE Publishing · United Kingdom | 3.63Q1 | 5.78 1.18 up from 2020 | 278 | 59% | $3,900 | ||
18Organization StudiesSAGE Publishing · Germany | 3.47Q1 | 6.04 0.91 up from 2020 | 242 | 65% | $3,900 | ||
19The International Journal of Human Resource ManagementRoutledge · United Kingdom | 3.44Q1 | 5.04 1.22 up from 2020 | 321 | 40% | — | ||
20Journal of Marketing for HIGHER EDUCATIONTaylor & Francis · United States | 3.34Q1 | 5.12 0.49 up from 2020 | 67 | 26% | — | ||
21Journal of Occupational and Organizational PsychologyWiley · United Kingdom | 3.34Q1 | 5.32 0.48 down from 2020 | 118 | 52% | $3,840 | ||
22European Journal of Management and Business EconomicsOAEmerald Publishing Limited · United Kingdom | 3.25Q1 | 5.48 1.21 up from 2020 | 71 | 100% | — | ||
23Applied PsychologyWiley · United Kingdom | 3.24Q1 | 6.59 2.84 up from 2020 | 163 | 52% | $3,840 | ||
24Journal of Asia Business StudiesEmerald Publishing Limited · United Kingdom | 3.24Q1 | 5.77 1.73 up from 2020 | 123 | 8% | — | ||
25Leadership & Organization Development JournalEmerald Publishing Limited · United Kingdom | 3.14Q1 | 5.58 1.36 up from 2020 | 202 | 13% | — | ||
26South Asian Journal of Business StudiesEmerald Publishing Limited · United Kingdom | 3.11Q1 | 3.92 0.34 up from 2020 | 89 | 5% | — | ||
27Career Development InternationalEmerald Publishing Limited · United Kingdom | 3.07Q1 | 3.35 1.23 down from 2020 | 127 | 30% | — | ||
28Journal of Organizational Effectiveness People and PerformanceEmerald Publishing Limited · United Kingdom | 3.02Q1 | 5.42 1.10 up from 2020 | 52 | 36% | — | ||
29Group & Organization ManagementSAGE Publishing · United States | 2.92Q1 | 5.58 1.55 up from 2020 | 62 | 42% | $3,900 | ||
30Journal of Managerial PsychologyEmerald Publishing Limited · United Kingdom | 2.89Q1 | 5.23 1.20 up from 2020 | 131 | 17% | — | ||
31Human Resource Development InternationalTaylor & Francis · United Kingdom | 2.86Q1 | 6.48 4.15 up from 2020 | 108 | 17% | — | ||
32Journal of Family Business StrategyElsevier BV · Netherlands | 2.85Q1 | 5.44 0.28 down from 2020 | 90 | 39% | $3,730 | ||
33OrganizationSAGE Publishing · United Kingdom | 2.79Q1 | 4.00 0.05 up from 2020 | 188 | 44% | $3,900 | ||
34Personnel ReviewEmerald Publishing Limited · United Kingdom | 2.78Q1 | 4.32 0.79 up from 2020 | 361 | 27% | — | ||
35Journal of Leadership & Organizational StudiesSAGE Publishing · United States | 2.75Q1 | 5.60 1.28 up from 2020 | 89 | 50% | $3,900 | ||
36Asia-Pacific Journal of Business AdministrationEmerald Publishing Limited · United Kingdom | 2.74Q2 | 4.08 0.96 up from 2020 | 64 | 10% | — | ||
37European Journal of Work and Organizational PsychologyTaylor & Francis · United Kingdom | 2.70Q2 | 5.72 0.96 up from 2020 | 215 | 46% | — | ||
38Scandinavian Journal of ManagementElsevier BV · United Kingdom | 2.69Q2 | 4.62 1.48 up from 2020 | 82 | 42% | $3,190 | ||
39Journal of Service Theory and PracticeEmerald Publishing Limited · United Kingdom | 2.63Q2 | 5.56 1.64 up from 2020 | 95 | 44% | — | ||
40Journal of Management DevelopmentEmerald Publishing Limited · United Kingdom | 2.62Q2 | 4.50 1.09 up from 2020 | 177 | 15% | — | ||
41Organizational Psychology ReviewSAGE Publishing · United Kingdom | 2.61Q2 | 6.70 3.02 up from 2020 | 34 | 46% | $3,900 | ||
42Management Research ReviewEmerald Publishing Limited · United Kingdom | 2.58Q2 | 4.07 0.35 up from 2020 | 244 | 5% | — | ||
43Baltic Journal of ManagementEmerald Publishing Limited · United Kingdom | 2.51Q2 | 3.64 0.16 down from 2020 | 113 | 45% | — | ||
44Journal of Work and Organizational PsychologyOAColegio Oficial de Psicólogos de Madrid · Spain | 2.41Q2 | 5.52 1.95 up from 2020 | 69 | 100% | — | ||
45Journal of Personal Selling and Sales ManagementTaylor & Francis · United States | 2.37Q2 | 4.61 0.56 up from 2020 | 74 | 15% | — | ||
46Journal of Relationship MarketingTaylor & Francis · United States | 2.36Q2 | 4.95 2.43 up from 2020 | 61 | 57% | — | ||
47Employee RelationsEmerald Publishing Limited · United Kingdom | 2.36Q2 | 3.92 0.89 up from 2020 | 272 | 37% | — | ||
48LeadershipSAGE Publishing · United Kingdom | 2.33Q2 | 3.82 2.23 up from 2020 | 120 | 48% | $3,650 | ||
49Public Personnel ManagementSAGE Publishing · United States | 2.32Q2 | 3.09 0.27 up from 2020 | 87 | 8% | $3,650 | ||
50Journal of Human Resources in Hospitality & TourismTaylor & Francis · United Kingdom | 2.29Q2 | 3.63 1.43 up from 2020 | 66 | 24% | — |
Subfields of Business, Management and Accounting, with Organizational Behavior and Human Resource Management highlighted.
- 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.
23 additional Organizational Behavior and Human Resource Management 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
- 137
- Window papers (baseline)
- 55,127 +14.5% from indicator year 2018
- Median OJR
- 1.79 +4.8% from indicator year 2018
- Rising journals (2025)
- 8
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 | 74 | 76 | 77 | 79 | 84 | 88 | 94 | 96 | 101 | 105 | 111 | 113 | 120 | 124 | 128 | 131 | 138 | 140 | 142 | 141 | 139 | 137 | 141 | 140 | 140 | 136 | |
| Window papers (baseline) | 12,547 | 13,934 | 15,495 | 17,468 | 19,434 | 21,618 | 24,018 | 26,923 | 30,114 | 33,351 | 36,626 | 39,460 | 43,433 | 45,531 | 47,948 | 48,828 | 49,704 | 49,017 | 48,146 | 48,669 | 51,032 | 55,127 | 58,558 | 60,177 | 61,594 | 65,848 | |
| Median OJR | 0.9522 | 0.9523 | 0.97 | 1.16 | 1.29 | 1.41 | 1.56 | 1.73 | 1.691 | 1.72 | 1.86 | 1.685 | 1.85 | 1.831 | 1.76 | 1.62 | 1.70 | 1.59 | 1.71 | 1.60 | 1.75 | 1.79 | 1.77 | 1.830 | 1.80 | 1.88 |
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.