Journal rankings · indicator year 2025
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Strategy and Management journal rankings 2025
213 ranked journals · Subfield in Business, Management and Accounting
Strategy and Management has 213 ranked journals in 2025. The median OJR rose 0.06 on 2024 to 1.62, above the world average of 1.00; Q1 starts at OJR 3.28. The highest-scoring journal with a stable rank is Business Strategy and the Environment: its likely rank is within the top 3.
Ranks and citation indicators: 2025. 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 2022–2024, the window the 2025 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)
213 ranked journals
Filters
Rank is the position by OJR within the list on screen; 1 is the highest. The small range under it is the likely rank range: in 95% of 1,000 resamples of the journal’s papers, it ranked inside that range. Journals whose ranges overlap are not clearly different. | 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 2024. This is OpenJournalRank’s own count, not Clarivate’s Journal Impact Factor. | Citable documents (articles, reviews and conference papers) published in 2022–2024, the window the 2025 OJR is computed on. A journal needs at least 30 to be ranked. | Share of the journal’s 2022–2024 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 2016 to 2025. A label compares the 2022→2025 change with the median change of the journal’s field or domain. Rising needs a relative change of +10% or more that is at least 2 standard errors above zero; Falling needs -9.1% or less (rounded), at least 2 standard errors below zero. Sorting uses that relative change. | Compare |
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Rank 1; likely between #1 and #3 of 213Business Strategy and the EnvironmentWiley · United Kingdom | 7.71Q1 | 14.99 1.60 down from 2024 | 1,106 | 70% | $4,480 | Rising vs field, 2022–25 | |
Rank 2; likely between #1 and #10 of 213Supply Chain Management An International JournalEmerald Publishing Limited · United Kingdom | 6.93Q1 | 12.34 2.04 up from 2024 | 130 | 32% | — | ||
Rank 3; likely between #1 and #26 of 213Journal of Supply Chain ManagementWiley · United Kingdom | 6.28Q1 | 12.25 2.29 up from 2024 | 42 | 72% | $3,700 | ||
Rank 4; likely between #2 and #18 of 213Journal of Operations ManagementWiley · United States | 6.22Q1 | 9.83 1.18 down from 2024 | 151 | 64% | $3,520 | Rising vs field, 2022–25 | |
Rank 5; likely between #2 and #16 of 213Strategic Management JournalWiley · United States | 6.06Q1 | 8.36 0.52 up from 2024 | 268 | 76% | $4,250 | ||
Rank 6; likely between #3 and #15 of 213TechnovationElsevier BV · United Kingdom | 6.00Q1 | 13.02 0.71 down from 2024 | 461 | 52% | $3,890 | ||
Rank 7; likely between #4 and #13 of 213Corporate Social Responsibility and Environmental ManagementWiley · United Kingdom | 5.94Q1 | 11.64 0.32 up from 2024 | 827 | 60% | $4,100 | ||
Rank 8; likely between #3 and #18 of 213Journal of International Business StudiesPalgrave Macmillan · United Kingdom | 5.88Q1 | 9.04 0.15 up from 2024 | 260 | 60% | $4,790 | ||
Rank 9; likely between #5 and #17 of 213International Journal of Production EconomicsElsevier BV · Netherlands | 5.60Q1 | 12.39 0.69 up from 2024 | 805 | 35% | $4,420 | ||
Rank 10; likely between #3 and #27 of 213Review of Managerial ScienceSpringer Science+Business Media · Germany | 5.57Q1 | 13.68 1.45 up from 2024 | 311 | 74% | $3,190 | Rising vs field, 2022–25 | |
Rank 11; likely between #5 and #25 of 213Sustainability Accounting Management and Policy JournalEmerald Publishing Limited · United Kingdom | 5.29Q1 | 10.07 0.21 up from 2024 | 186 | 33% | — | Rising vs field, 2022–25 | |
Rank 12; likely between #3 and #33 of 213Journal of Product Innovation ManagementWiley · United States | 5.25Q1 | 12.38 3.18 up from 2024 | 142 | 79% | $3,400 | ||
Rank 13; likely between #8 and #23 of 213Journal of Open Innovation Technology Market and ComplexityOASpringer Science+Business Media · Switzerland | 5.14Q1 | 11.38 0.74 down from 2024 | 667 | 100% | $1,250 | Rising vs field, 2022–25 | |
Rank 14; likely between #1 and #88 of 213Asia Pacific Journal of ManagementSpringer Science+Business Media · Singapore | 5.14Q1 | 10.88 3.97 up from 2024 | 190 | 23% | $3,590 | ||
Rank 15; likely between #2 and #41 of 213International Journal of Management ReviewsWiley · United Kingdom | 5.13Q1 | 15.36 2.84 up from 2024 | 94 | 73% | $4,220 | ||
Rank 16; likely between #4 and #39 of 213California Management ReviewSAGE Publishing · United States | 5.06Q1 | 6.70 2.43 down from 2024 | 79 | 67% | $3,900 | ||
Rank 17; likely between #5 and #35 of 213European Research on Management and Business EconomicsOAElsevier BV · Spain | 5.04Q1 | 8.84 1.78 down from 2024 | 85 | 100% | $1,350 | ||
Rank 18; likely between #7 and #37 of 213Journal of Purchasing and Supply ManagementElsevier BV · United Kingdom | 4.88Q1 | 8.41 1.66 down from 2024 | 100 | 60% | $3,280 | ||
Rank 19; likely between #12 and #29 of 213International Journal of Operations & Production ManagementEmerald Publishing Limited · United Kingdom | 4.79Q1 | 9.92 1.00 up from 2024 | 314 | 59% | — | ||
Rank 20; likely between #5 and #46 of 213Asia Pacific Management ReviewElsevier BV · Taiwan | 4.77Q1 | 8.87 2.27 down from 2024 | 116 | 100% | $2,000 | ||
Rank 21; likely between #1 and #86 of 213International Journal of Corporate Social ResponsibilityOASpringer Nature · Switzerland | 4.65Q1 | 7.76 2.09 up from 2024 | 32 | 100% | $1,790 | ||
Rank 22; likely between #11 and #36 of 213Journal of Enterprise Information ManagementEmerald Publishing Limited · United Kingdom | 4.63Q1 | 11.32 2.46 up from 2024 | 170 | 16% | — | ||
Rank 23; likely between #9 and #40 of 213Organization ScienceInstitute for Operations Research and the Management Sciences · United States | 4.62Q1 | 6.23 0.32 up from 2024 | 280 | 19% | — | Rising vs field, 2022–25 | |
Rank 24; likely between #8 and #45 of 213Journal of World BusinessElsevier BV · United States | 4.50Q1 | 6.69 3.97 down from 2024 | 134 | 54% | $4,750 | ||
Rank 25; likely between #8 and #55 of 213Global Strategy JournalWiley · United Kingdom | 4.39Q1 | 4.90 0.91 down from 2024 | 81 | 67% | $3,480 | ||
Rank 26; likely between #16 and #40 of 213Industrial Marketing ManagementElsevier BV · United States | 4.32Q1 | 8.53 0.53 down from 2024 | 562 | 60% | $3,990 | Falling vs field, 2022–25 | |
Rank 27; likely between #19 and #40 of 213European Journal of Innovation ManagementEmerald Publishing Limited · United Kingdom | 4.21Q1 | 9.01 1.17 up from 2024 | 404 | 32% | — | ||
Rank 28; likely between #13 and #54 of 213Sustainable Technology and EntrepreneurshipOAElsevier BV | 4.16Q1 | 10.15 0.86 down from 2024 | 83 | 100% | $2,010 | ||
Rank 29; likely between #11 and #58 of 213Journal of Management Information SystemsTaylor & Francis · United States | 4.15Q1 | 7.74 0.62 up from 2024 | 125 | 42% | — | ||
Rank 30; likely between #13 and #52 of 213International Business ReviewElsevier BV · United Kingdom | 4.12Q1 | 6.53 0.02 up from 2024 | 232 | 64% | $4,550 | ||
Rank 31; likely between #9 and #68 of 213The Bottom Line Managing Library FinancesEmerald Publishing Limited · United Kingdom | 4.11Q1 | 5.94 2.73 down from 2024 | 57 | 19% | — | ||
Rank 32; likely between #20 and #48 of 213The International Journal of Logistics ManagementEmerald Publishing Limited · United Kingdom | 4.06Q1 | 9.86 1.53 up from 2024 | 217 | 23% | — | ||
Rank 33; likely between #20 and #55 of 213Journal of Intellectual CapitalEmerald Publishing Limited · United Kingdom | 3.93Q1 | 7.77 0.61 down from 2024 | 124 | 4% | — | ||
Rank 34; likely between #26 and #47 of 213Management DecisionEmerald Publishing Limited · United Kingdom | 3.88Q1 | 8.01 1.18 up from 2024 | 619 | 20% | — | ||
Rank 35; likely between #20 and #64 of 213Academy of Management PerspectivesAcademy of Management · United States | 3.76Q1 | 5.18 0.07 down from 2024 | 99 | 22% | — | ||
Rank 36; likely between #25 and #57 of 213Operations Management ResearchSpringer Science+Business Media · United States | 3.75Q1 | 7.97 0.32 down from 2024 | 275 | 32% | $3,890 | ||
Rank 37; likely between #17 and #70 of 213Long Range PlanningElsevier BV · United Kingdom | 3.73Q1 | 5.98 0.33 down from 2024 | 131 | 64% | $3,900 | ||
Rank 38; likely between #27 and #55 of 213Journal of Manufacturing Technology ManagementEmerald Publishing Limited · United Kingdom | 3.70Q1 | 9.50 1.92 up from 2024 | 220 | 16% | — | ||
Rank 38; likely between #17 and #70 of 213Journal of Digital EconomyElsevier BV | 3.70Q1 | 6.40 0.48 up from 2024 | 60 | 100% | $500 | ||
Rank 40; likely between #13 and #80 of 213Journal of International Business PolicyPalgrave Macmillan · United Kingdom | 3.69Q1 | 6.96 1.17 up from 2024 | 65 | 81% | $3,190 | ||
Rank 41; likely between #25 and #61 of 213International Journal of Physical Distribution & Logistics ManagementEmerald Publishing Limited | 3.68Q1 | 9.14 0.47 up from 2024 | 130 | 35% | — | ||
Rank 42; likely between #20 and #66 of 213Journal of Business LogisticsWiley · United States | 3.67Q1 | 9.67 2.46 up from 2024 | 95 | 77% | $3,570 | ||
Rank 43; likely between #13 and #83 of 213ZFW – Advances in Economic GeographyDe Gruyter · Germany | 3.66Q1 | 5.41 3.41 up from 2024 | 51 | 84% | $0 listed | ||
Rank 44; likely between #26 and #60 of 213Production Planning & ControlTaylor & Francis · United Kingdom | 3.65Q1 | 8.01 0.73 up from 2024 | 270 | 50% | — | ||
Rank 45; likely between #30 and #58 of 213Administrative SciencesOAMultidisciplinary Digital Publishing Institute · Switzerland | 3.58Q1 | 6.52 0.48 up from 2024 | 802 | 100% | $1,689 | Rising vs field, 2022–25 | |
Rank 46; likely between #24 and #69 of 213Journal of Global ResponsibilityEmerald Publishing Limited · United Kingdom | 3.49Q1 | 4.60 1.42 down from 2024 | 93 | 18% | — | ||
Rank 47; likely between #21 and #75 of 213Regulation & GovernanceWiley · Australia | 3.48Q1 | 6.15 1.60 up from 2024 | 181 | 84% | $4,480 | Rising vs field, 2022–25 | |
Rank 48; likely between #32 and #62 of 213Industrial Management & Data SystemsEmerald Publishing Limited · United Kingdom | 3.46Q1 | 7.10 0.76 up from 2024 | 365 | 10% | — | ||
Rank 49; likely between #32 and #64 of 213Meditari Accountancy ResearchEmerald Publishing Limited · United Kingdom | 3.44Q1 | 4.69 1.97 down from 2024 | 197 | 43% | — | ||
Rank 50; likely between #34 and #62 of 213Business Strategy & DevelopmentWiley · United States | 3.43Q1 | 7.32 1.12 up from 2024 | 266 | 55% | $3,240 | Rising vs field, 2022–25 |
13 Strategy and Management journals are labelled rising: their OJR moved up between 2022 and 2025 clearly faster than the median journal of their field or domain.
A journal is rising when its OJR grew from 2022 to 2025 faster than the median journal of its field (or domain, when the field is small), by two tests: the relative change is +10% or more, and it is at least 2 standard errors above zero. So the range of the change at 2 standard errors stays above zero, though not necessarily above +10%.
The bar is that range on a ratio scale; the shaded band, -9.1% to +10%, holds changes too small for a label. The list is ordered by the low end of the range, so the surest rises come first.
- 1Business Strategy & DevelopmentWiley · United States+87% vs groupOJR 1.82 → 3.43range +39% to +152%
- 2Sustainability Accounting Management and Policy JournalEmerald Publishing Limited · United Kingdom+80% vs groupOJR 2.91 → 5.29range +35% to +141%
- 3Administrative SciencesOAMultidisciplinary Digital Publishing Institute · Switzerland+49% vs groupOJR 2.39 → 3.58range +23% to +80%
- 4KybernetesEmerald Publishing Limited · United Kingdom+37% vs groupOJR 1.46 → 2.02range +14% to +65%
- 5IEEE Transactions on Engineering ManagementInstitute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers · United States+29% vs groupOJR 2.21 → 2.88range +12% to +49%
- 6Review of Managerial ScienceSpringer Science+Business Media · Germany+51% vs groupOJR 3.65 → 5.57range +8.1% to +112%
- 7Journal of Open Innovation Technology Market and ComplexityOASpringer Science+Business Media · Switzerland+30% vs groupOJR 3.94 → 5.14range +7.0% to +57%
- 8Organization ScienceInstitute for Operations Research and the Management Sciences · United States+38% vs groupOJR 3.31 → 4.62range +6.7% to +79%
- 9Journal of Business and Industrial MarketingEmerald Publishing Limited · United Kingdom+27% vs groupOJR 1.94 → 2.48range +6.7% to +51%
- 10Journal of Operations ManagementWiley · United States+44% vs groupOJR 4.30 → 6.22range +6.3% to +94%
- 11Journal of Modelling in ManagementEmerald Publishing Limited · United Kingdom+67% vs groupOJR 1.48 → 2.50range +6.0% to +164%
- 12Business Strategy and the EnvironmentWiley · United Kingdom+17% vs groupOJR 6.53 → 7.71range +3.7% to +32%
- 13Regulation & GovernanceWiley · Australia+49% vs groupOJR 2.32 → 3.48range +2.2% to +117%
No-label zone, -9.1% to +10%Group median changeBar scale -64% to +177% (ratio scale)
15 Strategy and Management journals are labelled falling: their OJR moved between 2022 and 2025 clearly behind the median journal of their field or domain.
A journal is falling when its OJR changed from 2022 to 2025 by less than the median journal of its field (or domain, when the field is small), by two tests: the relative change is -9.1% or less (rounded), and it is at least 2 standard errors below zero. So the range of the change at 2 standard errors stays below zero, though not necessarily below -9.1%.
The bar is that range on a ratio scale; the shaded band, -9.1% to +10%, holds changes too small for a label. The list is ordered by the high end of the range, so the surest falls come first.
- 1Journal of CompetitivenessOATomas Baťa University in Zlín · Czechia-60% vs groupOJR 4.28 → 1.72range -70% to -47%
- 2International Journal of Innovation ManagementImperial College Press · United Kingdom-47% vs groupOJR 1.33 → 0.72range -58% to -32%
- 3Revista de Administração de EmpresasOAFundação Getúlio Vargas · Brazil-57% vs groupOJR 0.95 → 0.42range -73% to -31%
- 4International Journal of Technology ManagementInderscience Publishers · United Kingdom-49% vs groupOJR 0.68 → 0.35range -66% to -22%
- 5Operations and Supply Chain Management An International JournalOAIndonesia-47% vs groupOJR 1.54 → 0.82range -64% to -22%
- 6Sustainable Production and ConsumptionElsevier BV · Netherlands-32% vs groupOJR 4.81 → 3.32range -41% to -21%
- 7Transnational Corporation ReviewOAElsevier BV · Canada-43% vs groupOJR 2.78 → 1.60range -60% to -19%
- 8LogforumOAPoznan School of Logistics · Poland-40% vs groupOJR 1.37 → 0.83range -58% to -14%
- 9International Journal of Logistics Research and ApplicationsTaylor & Francis · United Kingdom-33% vs groupOJR 3.47 → 2.34range -50% to -11%
- 10International Journal of Learning and Intellectual CapitalInderscience Publishers · United Kingdom-48% vs groupOJR 0.51 → 0.26range -71% to -7.5%
- 11International Journal of Logistics Systems and ManagementInderscience Publishers · United Kingdom-33% vs groupOJR 0.21 → 0.14range -53% to -5.2%
- 12Industrial Marketing ManagementElsevier BV · United States-21% vs groupOJR 5.43 → 4.32range -35% to -3.9%
- 13Journal of Korea TradeEmerald Publishing Limited · South Korea-39% vs groupOJR 0.41 → 0.25range -61% to -3.4%
- 14Journal of Advances in Management ResearchEmerald Publishing Limited · United Kingdom-28% vs groupOJR 2.44 → 1.78range -47% to -0.5%
- 15The International Food and Agribusiness Management ReviewOAInternational Food and Agribusiness Management Association · United States-27% vs groupOJR 1.22 → 0.90range -47% to -0.4%
No-label zone, -9.1% to +10%Group median changeBar scale -75% to +292% (ratio scale)
Subfields of Business, Management and Accounting, with Strategy and Management highlighted.
- Strategy and Management213
- Organizational Behavior and Human Resource Management136
- Accounting132
- Marketing80
- Management Information Systems76
- Management of Technology and Innovation60
- Business and International Management7
- Tourism, Leisure and Hospitality Management7
- Industrial relations0
Journals
The endpoints below each rank show its likely range. How rank ranges are calculated
Citations made in 2025. Corpus-wide, 84.3% of core-journal articles and reviews published that year have at least one matched reference; the share varies by journal and field.
39 additional Strategy and Management journals with metrics are unranked under this release’s eligibility rules: a journal needs at least 30 citable documents in 2022–2024, 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: 2025. Publication window: 2022–2024. How these summaries are calculated
- Ranked journals
- 213
- Window papers (baseline)
- 152,569 +23.8% from indicator year 2022
- Median OJR
- 1.62 +4.8% from indicator year 2022
- Rising journals (2025)
- 13
Window papers are the baseline paper population: citable papers (articles, reviews and conference papers) from 2022–2024 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.