Journal rankings · indicator year 2022
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Field ranking · 2022
Business, Management and Accounting journal rankings 2022
732 ranked journals · Field in Social Sciences
Business, Management and Accounting has 732 ranked journals in 2022. Its median journal scores above the world average: OJR 1.53 against 1.00, down 0.03 on 2021. A journal needs OJR 2.87 to reach Q1. The top three are Academy of Management Annals, The Journal of Strategic Information Systems, and California Management Review.
Ranks and citation indicators: 2022. 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 2019–2021, the window the 2022 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 2021. This is OpenJournalRank’s own count, not Clarivate’s Journal Impact Factor. | Citable documents (articles, reviews and conference papers) published in 2019–2021, the window the 2022 OJR is computed on. A journal needs at least 30 to be ranked. | Share of the journal’s 2019–2021 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 2013 to 2022. | Compare |
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1Academy of Management AnnalsRoutledge · United States | 12.72Q1 | 16.74 4.73 down from 2021 | 73 | 37% | — | ||
2The Journal of Strategic Information SystemsElsevier BV · Netherlands | 12.07Q1 | 8.89 12.53 down from 2021 | 64 | 44% | $4,160 | ||
3California Management ReviewSAGE Publishing · United States | 12.03Q1 | 13.72 6.64 down from 2021 | 81 | 60% | $3,900 | ||
4Journal of MarketingSAGE Publishing · United Kingdom | 8.35Q1 | 13.83 2.29 down from 2021 | 181 | 41% | $5,400 | ||
5Journal of the Academy of Marketing ScienceSpringer Science+Business Media · United States | 8.21Q1 | 15.48 1.78 down from 2021 | 185 | 51% | $4,790 | ||
6The Review of Corporate Finance StudiesOxford University Press · United States | 7.62Q1 | 12.92 1.88 down from 2021 | 65 | 21% | $4,028 | ||
7Journal of Business ResearchElsevier BV · United States | 7.49Q1 | 14.55 1.97 up from 2021 | 2,315 | 47% | $4,440 | ||
8European Research on Management and Business EconomicsOAElsevier BV · Spain | 7.42Q1 | 10.63 0.61 up from 2021 | 72 | 100% | $1,350 | ||
9Journal of Vocational BehaviorElsevier BV · United States | 7.16Q1 | 14.18 0.82 up from 2021 | 261 | 34% | $4,690 | ||
10International Journal of Hospitality ManagementElsevier BV · United Kingdom | 7.15Q1 | 15.91 3.41 up from 2021 | 789 | 36% | $4,270 | ||
11Journal of International Business StudiesPalgrave Macmillan · United Kingdom | 7.05Q1 | 11.59 0.45 down from 2021 | 256 | 61% | $4,790 | ||
12Journal of Business VenturingElsevier BV · Netherlands | 6.89Q1 | 8.97 2.90 down from 2021 | 140 | 49% | $4,130 | ||
13Journal of International Business PolicyPalgrave Macmillan · United Kingdom | 6.79Q1 | 11.78 0.84 up from 2021 | 99 | 58% | $3,190 | ||
14Journal of Retailing and Consumer ServicesElsevier BV · United Kingdom | 6.65Q1 | 13.08 0.70 up from 2021 | 1,042 | 31% | $4,510 | ||
15TechnovationElsevier BV · United Kingdom | 6.57Q1 | 11.48 2.95 up from 2021 | 239 | 59% | $3,890 | ||
16Journal of ManagementSAGE Publishing · United States | 6.54Q1 | 13.37 1.13 up from 2021 | 189 | 45% | $3,900 | ||
17Journal of Management StudiesWiley · United Kingdom | 6.53Q1 | 12.71 2.91 up from 2021 | 240 | 66% | $4,150 | ||
18Business Strategy and the EnvironmentWiley · United Kingdom | 6.53Q1 | 15.35 3.66 up from 2021 | 674 | 58% | $4,480 | ||
19Entrepreneurship Theory and PracticeSAGE Publishing · United States | 6.41Q1 | 10.34 0.42 up from 2021 | 155 | 64% | $3,900 | ||
20International Journal of Production EconomicsElsevier BV · Netherlands | 6.40Q1 | 13.27 0.24 down from 2021 | 868 | 34% | $4,420 | ||
21International Journal of Operations & Production ManagementEmerald Publishing Limited · United Kingdom | 6.07Q1 | 12.05 0.68 up from 2021 | 201 | 53% | — | ||
22Journal of Service ResearchSAGE Publishing · United States | 6.06Q1 | 13.38 3.86 up from 2021 | 105 | 58% | $3,900 | ||
23Journal of service managementEmerald Publishing Limited · United Kingdom | 6.01Q1 | 15.33 2.70 up from 2021 | 137 | 51% | — | ||
24Journal of World BusinessElsevier BV · United States | 5.97Q1 | 10.96 0.89 up from 2021 | 168 | 53% | $4,750 | ||
25Supply Chain Management An International JournalEmerald Publishing Limited · United Kingdom | 5.96Q1 | 8.94 3.18 down from 2021 | 194 | 50% | — | ||
26Journal of Business LogisticsWiley · United States | 5.80Q1 | 10.64 1.92 up from 2021 | 74 | 39% | $3,570 | ||
27Strategic Management JournalWiley · United States | 5.73Q1 | 9.19 0.13 up from 2021 | 320 | 48% | $4,250 | ||
28Academy of Management ReviewAcademy of Management · United States | 5.69Q1 | 10.28 0.73 up from 2021 | 172 | 27% | — | ||
29Journal of Product Innovation ManagementWiley · United States | 5.67Q1 | 10.93 0.97 up from 2021 | 92 | 53% | $3,400 | ||
30Organization TheoryOASAGE Publishing · United Kingdom | 5.67Q1 | 11.40 0.52 down from 2021 | 55 | 100% | $0 listed | ||
31Journal of Supply Chain ManagementWiley · United Kingdom | 5.55Q1 | 11.85 3.98 up from 2021 | 61 | 50% | $3,700 | ||
32International Small Business Journal Researching EntrepreneurshipSAGE Publishing · United Kingdom | 5.50Q1 | 9.37 0.58 up from 2021 | 123 | 56% | $3,900 | ||
33Industrial Marketing ManagementElsevier BV · United States | 5.43Q1 | 12.12 1.42 up from 2021 | 562 | 51% | $3,990 | ||
34Corporate Social Responsibility and Environmental ManagementWiley · United Kingdom | 5.38Q1 | 11.04 1.14 up from 2021 | 491 | 43% | $4,100 | ||
35Global Strategy JournalWiley · United Kingdom | 5.28Q1 | 7.78 1.84 down from 2021 | 76 | 58% | $3,480 | ||
36Journal of Corporate FinanceElsevier BV · Netherlands | 5.26Q1 | 6.95 1.78 up from 2021 | 597 | 33% | $4,140 | ||
37Human Resource Management ReviewElsevier BV · United States | 5.26Q1 | 9.19 1.69 down from 2021 | 121 | 46% | $5,170 | ||
38Academy of Management JournalAcademy of Management · United States | 5.18Q1 | 6.95 1.73 down from 2021 | 233 | 33% | — | ||
39Journal of Behavioral and Experimental FinanceElsevier BV · Netherlands | 5.13Q1 | 9.77 0.98 down from 2021 | 289 | 34% | $4,290 | ||
40Journal of Organizational BehaviorWiley · United Kingdom | 5.12Q1 | 7.24 2.15 down from 2021 | 204 | 42% | $4,250 | ||
41International Journal of Accounting Information SystemsElsevier BV · United States | 5.11Q1 | 6.95 1.02 down from 2021 | 52 | 21% | $4,130 | ||
42International Business ReviewElsevier BV · United Kingdom | 5.07Q1 | 9.26 0.35 down from 2021 | 262 | 48% | $4,550 | ||
43Journal of Business Venturing InsightsElsevier BV · United States | 5.06Q1 | 9.09 0.89 down from 2021 | 179 | 49% | $2,890 | ||
44Journal of Innovation and EntrepreneurshipOASpringer Nature · Germany | 5.04Q1 | 9.91 1.93 up from 2021 | 89 | 100% | $1,790 | ||
45International Journal of Bank MarketingEmerald Publishing Limited · United Kingdom | 5.02Q1 | 7.78 0.48 down from 2021 | 234 | 25% | — | ||
46Journal of Accounting and EconomicsElsevier BV · Netherlands | 4.99Q1 | 5.90 0.30 up from 2021 | 125 | 20% | $4,170 | ||
47The International Journal of Management EducationElsevier BV · Netherlands | 4.94Q1 | 7.57 0.26 up from 2021 | 234 | 39% | $4,130 | ||
48Journal of Management Information SystemsTaylor & Francis · United States | 4.94Q1 | 8.01 0.58 down from 2021 | 128 | 18% | — | ||
49Small Business EconomicsSpringer Science+Business Media · Netherlands | 4.93Q1 | 6.85 0.06 up from 2021 | 425 | 65% | $3,090 | ||
50Operations Management ResearchSpringer Science+Business Media · United States | 4.92Q1 | 11.10 2.72 up from 2021 | 83 | 68% | $3,890 |
Subfields of Business, Management and Accounting, compared.
- Strategy and Management214
- Organizational Behavior and Human Resource Management141
- Accounting137
- Management Information Systems82
- Marketing80
- Management of Technology and Innovation65
- Tourism, Leisure and Hospitality Management7
- Business and International Management6
- Industrial relations0
Journals
Citations made in 2022. Corpus-wide, 89.5% of core-journal articles and reviews published that year have at least one matched reference; the share varies by journal and field.
202 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 2019–2021, 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: 2022. Publication window: 2019–2021. How these summaries are calculated
- Ranked journals
- 732
- Window papers (baseline)
- 441,053 +25.1% from indicator year 2019
- Median OJR
- 1.53 +10.3% from indicator year 2019
- Rising journals (2025)
- 44Comparison-group list (44)
Window papers are the baseline paper population: citable papers (articles, reviews and conference papers) from 2019–2021 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.