Journal rankings · indicator year 2021
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Subfield ranking · 2021
Strategy and Management journal rankings 2021
210 ranked journals · Subfield in Business, Management and Accounting
Strategy and Management has 210 ranked journals in 2021. The median OJR rose 0.10 on 2020 to 1.57, above the world average of 1.00; Q1 starts at OJR 3.17. The top three are California Management Review, Journal of International Business Policy, and European Business Review.
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)
210 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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1California Management ReviewSAGE Publishing · United States | 12.29Q1 | 20.36 2.80 up from 2020 | 79 | 20% | $3,900 | ||
2Journal of International Business PolicyPalgrave Macmillan · United Kingdom | 10.46Q1 | 10.95 0.16 down from 2020 | 70 | 84% | $3,190 | ||
3European Business ReviewEmerald Publishing Limited · United Kingdom | 9.29Q1 | 4.44 6.69 down from 2020 | 154 | 38% | — | ||
4Strategic Management JournalWiley · United States | 7.28Q1 | 9.06 0.49 up from 2020 | 329 | 34% | $4,250 | ||
5Journal of International Business StudiesPalgrave Macmillan · United Kingdom | 7.22Q1 | 12.04 2.91 up from 2020 | 234 | 63% | $4,790 | ||
6TechnovationElsevier BV · United Kingdom | 6.75Q1 | 8.53 0.39 up from 2020 | 142 | 49% | $3,890 | ||
7Journal of Management Information SystemsTaylor & Francis · United States | 6.61Q1 | 8.59 1.46 down from 2020 | 126 | 26% | — | ||
8Supply Chain Management An International JournalEmerald Publishing Limited · United Kingdom | 6.40Q1 | 12.12 1.69 up from 2020 | 154 | 46% | — | ||
9Journal of Product Innovation ManagementWiley · United States | 6.32Q1 | 9.96 2.90 up from 2020 | 95 | 47% | $3,400 | ||
10International Journal of Production EconomicsElsevier BV · Netherlands | 6.03Q1 | 13.51 4.95 up from 2020 | 912 | 34% | $4,420 | ||
11Industrial Marketing ManagementElsevier BV · United States | 5.78Q1 | 10.69 3.56 up from 2020 | 565 | 42% | $3,990 | ||
12Journal of World BusinessElsevier BV · United States | 5.71Q1 | 10.08 2.25 up from 2020 | 167 | 57% | $4,750 | ||
13Global Strategy JournalWiley · United Kingdom | 5.61Q1 | 9.62 4.27 up from 2020 | 71 | 35% | $3,480 | ||
14European Research on Management and Business EconomicsOAElsevier BV · Spain | 5.61Q1 | 10.02 3.68 up from 2020 | 64 | 100% | $1,350 | ||
15Business Strategy and the EnvironmentWiley · United Kingdom | 5.58Q1 | 11.69 2.30 up from 2020 | 564 | 54% | $4,480 | ||
16Academy of Management PerspectivesAcademy of Management · United States | 5.55Q1 | 6.53 0.15 down from 2020 | 125 | 25% | — | ||
17Corporate Social Responsibility and Environmental ManagementWiley · United Kingdom | 5.38Q1 | 9.90 1.76 up from 2020 | 507 | 50% | $4,100 | ||
18International Journal of Operations & Production ManagementEmerald Publishing Limited · United Kingdom | 5.36Q1 | 11.36 4.44 up from 2020 | 224 | 67% | — | ||
19International Journal of Corporate Social ResponsibilityOASpringer Nature · Switzerland | 5.28Q1 | 12.44 6.10 up from 2020 | 31 | 100% | $1,790 | ||
20Journal of Manufacturing Technology ManagementEmerald Publishing Limited · United Kingdom | 5.28Q1 | 9.99 0.97 up from 2020 | 225 | 36% | — | ||
21International Business ReviewElsevier BV · United Kingdom | 5.21Q1 | 9.61 2.08 up from 2020 | 251 | 46% | $4,550 | ||
22Journal of Supply Chain ManagementWiley · United Kingdom | 4.96Q1 | 7.86 1.03 up from 2020 | 59 | 43% | $3,700 | ||
23Journal of Intellectual CapitalEmerald Publishing Limited · United Kingdom | 4.93Q1 | 9.11 0.10 down from 2020 | 178 | 29% | — | ||
24Long Range PlanningElsevier BV · United Kingdom | 4.74Q1 | 6.26 0.24 down from 2020 | 157 | 49% | $3,900 | ||
25International Journal of Physical Distribution & Logistics ManagementEmerald Publishing Limited | 4.74Q1 | 9.41 1.59 up from 2020 | 145 | 45% | — | ||
26Journal of Operations ManagementWiley · United States | 4.67Q1 | 7.19 0.45 up from 2020 | 143 | 42% | $3,520 | ||
27Journal of Purchasing and Supply ManagementElsevier BV · United Kingdom | 4.60Q1 | 8.05 1.78 up from 2020 | 100 | 47% | $3,280 | ||
28International Journal of Management ReviewsWiley · United Kingdom | 4.42Q1 | 10.12 1.69 up from 2020 | 61 | 66% | $4,220 | ||
29Business & SocietySAGE Publishing · United States | 4.36Q1 | 5.20 0.28 up from 2020 | 130 | 61% | $3,900 | ||
30Organization ScienceInstitute for Operations Research and the Management Sciences · United States | 4.33Q1 | 5.86 0.24 down from 2020 | 241 | 32% | — | ||
31The International Journal of Logistics ManagementEmerald Publishing Limited · United Kingdom | 4.30Q1 | 6.89 0.08 down from 2020 | 179 | 27% | — | ||
32Production Planning & ControlTaylor & Francis · United Kingdom | 4.25Q1 | 8.08 1.37 up from 2020 | 405 | 56% | — | ||
33Journal of CompetitivenessOATomas Baťa University in Zlín · Czechia | 4.21Q1 | 6.31 0.40 up from 2020 | 120 | 100% | $485 | ||
34Operations Management ResearchSpringer Science+Business Media · United States | 4.03Q1 | 8.38 4.88 up from 2020 | 39 | 59% | $3,890 | ||
35Journal of Business LogisticsWiley · United States | 4.02Q1 | 8.72 1.74 up from 2020 | 68 | 52% | $3,570 | ||
36Sustainable Production and ConsumptionElsevier BV · Netherlands | 4.01Q1 | 12.33 5.88 up from 2020 | 374 | 36% | $3,770 | ||
37Journal of Enterprise Information ManagementEmerald Publishing Limited · United Kingdom | 4.01Q1 | 7.54 1.25 up from 2020 | 230 | 15% | — | ||
38Journal of Engineering and Technology ManagementElsevier BV · Netherlands | 3.94Q1 | 5.74 0.11 up from 2020 | 71 | 22% | $2,630 | ||
39Journal of International ManagementElsevier BV · Netherlands | 3.91Q1 | 7.35 2.60 up from 2020 | 109 | 48% | $4,020 | ||
40Management DecisionEmerald Publishing Limited · United Kingdom | 3.88Q1 | 5.88 0.70 up from 2020 | 556 | 30% | — | ||
41International Journal of Systems Science Operations & LogisticsTaylor & Francis · United Kingdom | 3.59Q1 | 5.89 4.78 down from 2020 | 71 | 16% | — | ||
42Industrial Management & Data SystemsEmerald Publishing Limited · United Kingdom | 3.55Q1 | 6.08 1.15 up from 2020 | 338 | 22% | — | ||
43European Journal of Innovation ManagementEmerald Publishing Limited · United Kingdom | 3.46Q1 | 5.88 0.98 up from 2020 | 201 | 27% | — | ||
44R and D ManagementWiley · United Kingdom | 3.44Q1 | 6.34 2.76 up from 2020 | 115 | 59% | $3,620 | ||
45Transnational corporationsUnited Nations Publications | 3.39Q1 | 4.54 1.72 up from 2020 | 52 | 33% | — | ||
46International Marketing ReviewEmerald Publishing Limited · United Kingdom | 3.34Q1 | 5.96 0.52 up from 2020 | 175 | 39% | — | ||
47Journal of International EntrepreneurshipSpringer Science+Business Media · Netherlands | 3.33Q1 | 5.15 1.40 up from 2020 | 62 | 55% | $3,390 | ||
48Journal of Small Business & EntrepreneurshipTaylor & Francis · United Kingdom | 3.32Q1 | 5.72 2.28 up from 2020 | 139 | 18% | — | ||
49Review of Managerial ScienceSpringer Science+Business Media · Germany | 3.31Q1 | 6.12 1.35 up from 2020 | 148 | 64% | $3,190 | ||
50Strategic OrganizationSAGE Publishing · United Kingdom | 3.30Q1 | 4.45 0.09 down from 2020 | 94 | 61% | $3,900 |
Subfields of Business, Management and Accounting, with Strategy and 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.
59 additional Strategy and 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
- 210
- Window papers (baseline)
- 115,235 +18.9% from indicator year 2018
- Median OJR
- 1.566 +14.1% from indicator year 2018
- Rising journals (2025)
- 13
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 |
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| 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.