Journal rankings · indicator year 2024
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Field ranking · 2024
Business, Management and Accounting journal rankings 2024
736 ranked journals · Field in Social Sciences
Business, Management and Accounting has 736 ranked journals in 2024. The median OJR rose 0.09 on 2023 to 1.57, above the world average of 1.00; Q1 starts at OJR 2.77. The top three are Academy of Management Annals, Business Strategy and the Environment, and Journal of Business Research.
Ranks and citation indicators: 2024. 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 2021–2023, the window the 2024 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)
Up to Social Sciences736 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 2023. This is OpenJournalRank’s own count, not Clarivate’s Journal Impact Factor. | Citable documents (articles, reviews and conference papers) published in 2021–2023, the window the 2024 OJR is computed on. A journal needs at least 30 to be ranked. | Share of the journal’s 2021–2023 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 2015 to 2024. | Compare |
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1Academy of Management AnnalsRoutledge · United States | 8.65Q1 | 16.05 3.39 up from 2023 | 60 | 42% | — | ||
2Business Strategy and the EnvironmentWiley · United Kingdom | 7.36Q1 | 16.60 0.22 up from 2023 | 923 | 74% | $4,480 | ||
3Journal of Business ResearchElsevier BV · United States | 6.91Q1 | 12.69 0.64 down from 2023 | 2,498 | 53% | $4,440 | ||
4Journal of Corporate FinanceElsevier BV · Netherlands | 6.78Q1 | 6.70 1.59 down from 2023 | 503 | 51% | $4,140 | ||
5Journal of MarketingSAGE Publishing · United Kingdom | 6.75Q1 | 10.75 2.05 down from 2023 | 168 | 46% | $5,400 | ||
6Journal of International Financial Management and AccountingWiley · United Kingdom | 6.73Q1 | 10.18 1.64 down from 2023 | 61 | 50% | $3,010 | ||
7Human Resource Management ReviewElsevier BV · United States | 6.66Q1 | 18.86 4.26 up from 2023 | 105 | 63% | $5,170 | ||
8Journal of ManagementSAGE Publishing · United States | 6.57Q1 | 9.32 1.01 down from 2023 | 269 | 57% | $3,900 | ||
9Journal of Retailing and Consumer ServicesElsevier BV · United Kingdom | 6.55Q1 | 16.22 1.11 up from 2023 | 1,082 | 27% | $4,510 | ||
10Academy of Management ReviewAcademy of Management · United States | 6.54Q1 | 7.62 0.39 down from 2023 | 135 | 23% | — | ||
11TechnovationElsevier BV · United Kingdom | 6.42Q1 | 13.72 0.33 up from 2023 | 475 | 60% | $3,890 | ||
12Journal of Business VenturingElsevier BV · Netherlands | 6.34Q1 | 10.91 1.89 up from 2023 | 148 | 57% | $4,130 | ||
13Human Resource ManagementWiley · United States | 6.17Q1 | 11.59 3.97 up from 2023 | 124 | 52% | $4,150 | ||
14The International Journal of Management EducationElsevier BV · Netherlands | 6.08Q1 | 10.88 1.00 up from 2023 | 386 | 42% | $4,130 | ||
15Asia Pacific Management ReviewElsevier BV · Taiwan | 6.07Q1 | 11.14 0.59 up from 2023 | 115 | 100% | $2,000 | ||
16Journal of the Academy of Marketing ScienceSpringer Science+Business Media · United States | 6.00Q1 | 12.94 0.54 up from 2023 | 221 | 66% | $4,790 | ||
17International Journal of Accounting Information SystemsElsevier BV · United States | 5.97Q1 | 10.96 1.03 up from 2023 | 72 | 57% | $4,130 | ||
18Organizational Research MethodsSAGE Publishing · United States | 5.83Q1 | 9.57 1.06 down from 2023 | 65 | 65% | $3,900 | ||
19Academy of Management JournalAcademy of Management · United States | 5.82Q1 | 9.23 2.15 up from 2023 | 174 | 44% | — | ||
20Journal of International Business StudiesPalgrave Macmillan · United Kingdom | 5.63Q1 | 8.90 0.34 down from 2023 | 259 | 59% | $4,790 | ||
21Entrepreneurship Theory and PracticeSAGE Publishing · United States | 5.57Q1 | 8.78 0.83 down from 2023 | 150 | 66% | $3,900 | ||
22Journal of Supply Chain ManagementWiley · United Kingdom | 5.56Q1 | 9.96 1.88 up from 2023 | 41 | 85% | $3,700 | ||
23Digital BusinessOAElsevier BV · Netherlands | 5.52Q1 | 11.62 1.30 up from 2023 | 66 | 100% | $1,630 | ||
24Organization TheoryOASAGE Publishing · United Kingdom | 5.50Q1 | 8.27 0.64 down from 2023 | 75 | 100% | $0 listed | ||
25Journal of Innovation and EntrepreneurshipOASpringer Nature · Germany | 5.49Q1 | 8.76 0.90 down from 2023 | 205 | 100% | $1,790 | ||
26Journal of Open Innovation Technology Market and ComplexityOASpringer Science+Business Media · Switzerland | 5.44Q1 | 12.12 1.05 up from 2023 | 645 | 100% | $1,250 | ||
27Corporate Social Responsibility and Environmental ManagementWiley · United Kingdom | 5.41Q1 | 11.32 0.36 up from 2023 | 571 | 60% | $4,100 | ||
28Supply Chain Management An International JournalEmerald Publishing Limited · United Kingdom | 5.36Q1 | 10.30 0.10 down from 2023 | 167 | 57% | — | ||
29Review of Accounting StudiesSpringer Science+Business Media · United States | 5.30Q1 | 6.59 1.09 up from 2023 | 227 | 56% | $3,190 | ||
30The British Accounting ReviewElsevier BV · United Kingdom | 5.23Q1 | 7.26 1.05 up from 2023 | 153 | 55% | $3,770 | ||
31International Journal of Bank MarketingEmerald Publishing Limited · United Kingdom | 5.22Q1 | 10.03 0.95 down from 2023 | 231 | 22% | — | ||
32The Journal of Strategic Information SystemsElsevier BV · Netherlands | 5.21Q1 | 11.67 1.58 up from 2023 | 68 | 73% | $4,160 | ||
33Psychology and MarketingWiley · United States | 5.14Q1 | 11.94 0.04 down from 2023 | 478 | 69% | $3,800 | ||
34Asia Pacific Journal of Innovation and EntrepreneurshipOAEmerald Publishing Limited · United Kingdom | 5.13Q1 | 6.68 2.76 down from 2023 | 33 | 100% | — | ||
35Journal of Operations ManagementWiley · United States | 5.12Q1 | 11.01 3.42 up from 2023 | 125 | 69% | $3,520 | ||
36Strategic Management JournalWiley · United States | 5.12Q1 | 7.84 0.87 up from 2023 | 267 | 73% | $4,250 | ||
37European Research on Management and Business EconomicsOAElsevier BV · Spain | 5.10Q1 | 10.62 1.09 down from 2023 | 78 | 100% | $1,350 | ||
38Journal of World BusinessElsevier BV · United States | 5.08Q1 | 10.66 1.29 up from 2023 | 161 | 59% | $4,750 | ||
39International Journal of Production EconomicsElsevier BV · Netherlands | 5.03Q1 | 11.69 0.51 up from 2023 | 821 | 37% | $4,420 | ||
40International Journal of Hospitality ManagementElsevier BV · United Kingdom | 5.00Q1 | 10.49 1.24 down from 2023 | 662 | 31% | $4,270 | ||
41Strategic Entrepreneurship JournalWiley · United States | 4.99Q1 | 6.69 0.25 up from 2023 | 82 | 73% | $4,100 | ||
42Journal of Small Business ManagementWiley · United States | 4.84Q1 | 8.04 0.49 up from 2023 | 186 | 54% | $2,500 | ||
43Journal of Management StudiesWiley · United Kingdom | 4.82Q1 | 7.18 1.33 down from 2023 | 287 | 86% | $4,150 | ||
44The International Journal of Human Resource ManagementRoutledge · United Kingdom | 4.76Q1 | 7.26 0.39 down from 2023 | 312 | 54% | — | ||
45Journal of Product Innovation ManagementWiley · United States | 4.69Q1 | 9.20 0.25 up from 2023 | 141 | 73% | $3,400 | ||
46Journal of Business LogisticsWiley · United States | 4.68Q1 | 7.21 4.65 down from 2023 | 90 | 68% | $3,570 | ||
47Journal of Accounting ResearchWiley · United Kingdom | 4.68Q1 | 6.96 1.84 up from 2023 | 141 | 72% | $4,420 | ||
48California Management ReviewSAGE Publishing · United States | 4.67Q1 | 9.13 0.03 down from 2023 | 79 | 72% | $3,900 | ||
49International Journal of Operations & Production ManagementEmerald Publishing Limited · United Kingdom | 4.64Q1 | 8.93 0.17 down from 2023 | 312 | 60% | — | ||
50Review of Managerial ScienceSpringer Science+Business Media · Germany | 4.64Q1 | 12.23 2.23 up from 2023 | 294 | 77% | $3,190 |
Subfields of Business, Management and Accounting, compared.
- Strategy and Management222
- Organizational Behavior and Human Resource Management140
- Accounting136
- Marketing82
- Management Information Systems77
- Management of Technology and Innovation65
- Business and International Management7
- Tourism, Leisure and Hospitality Management7
- Industrial relations0
Journals
Citations made in 2024. Corpus-wide, 87.1% of core-journal articles and reviews published that year have at least one matched reference; the share varies by journal and field.
151 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 2021–2023, 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: 2024. Publication window: 2021–2023. How these summaries are calculated
- Ranked journals
- 736
- Window papers (baseline)
- 483,546 +17.9% from indicator year 2021
- Median OJR
- 1.57 +0.6% from indicator year 2021
- Rising journals (2025)
- 44Comparison-group list (44)
Window papers are the baseline paper population: citable papers (articles, reviews and conference papers) from 2021–2023 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.