Rising Business, Management and Accounting journals compared with their field
These are the Business, Management and Accounting journals whose OJR rose faster than the median journal of their field between 2022 and 2025, by +10% or more relative to that median and by at least 2 standard errors. 44 journals qualify.
Between indicator years 2022 and 2025, the median OJR change among 287 eligible Business, Management and Accounting journals was about +1%, taking the median on a log scale (the group ratio below).
Ordered by the lower bound of the relative-change range at two standard errors, highest first, then higher z (the signed difference in standard errors), then title. How trajectory is calculated (traj-v1)
| Journal | OJR 2022 → 2025 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. | Change relative to Business, Management and Accounting median (2 SE range) | z (standard errors) |
|---|---|---|---|
| Global Business and Organizational Excellence | 1.56 → 4.80 | +204.1% (+96.8% to +369.9%) | 5.1 |
| International Journal of Computer Trends and Technology | 0.17 → 0.50 | +198.2% (+75.1% to +408.1%) | 4.1 |
| Development in Learning Organizations An International Journal | 0.34 → 0.87 | +156.6% (+65.4% to +298.1%) | 4.3 |
| Personnel Psychology | 1.84 → 4.41 | +138.1% (+61.9% to +250.2%) | 4.5 |
| Journal of Family Business Management | 1.59 → 2.97 | +85.5% (+43.9% to +139.1%) | 4.9 |
| Business Strategy & Development | 1.82 → 3.43 | +87.0% (+38.6% to +152.1%) | 4.2 |
| Organizational Dynamics | 1.70 → 3.87 | +126.0% (+37.4% to +271.6%) | 3.3 |
| Sustainability Accounting Management and Policy Journal | 2.91 → 5.29 | +80.4% (+35.3% to +140.7%) | 4.1 |
| Journal of Accounting Research | 3.71 → 7.91 | +111.3% (+34.9% to +231.0%) | 3.3 |
| Psychology and Marketing | 3.31 → 5.59 | +67.4% (+33.7% to +109.7%) | 4.6 |
| Human Resource Management | 4.09 → 7.33 | +77.6% (+32.3% to +138.3%) | 3.9 |
| European Financial Management | 1.68 → 3.32 | +95.2% (+25.6% to +203.4%) | 3.0 |
| International Journal of Social Ecology and Sustainable Development | 0.16 → 0.34 | +105.9% (+24.1% to +241.6%) | 2.9 |
| Administrative Sciences | 2.39 → 3.58 | +48.6% (+23.0% to +79.6%) | 4.2 |
| Journal of Accounting in Emerging Economies | 2.82 → 4.72 | +66.1% (+19.8% to +130.1%) | 3.1 |
| Qualitative Market Research An International Journal | 1.43 → 2.49 | +73.2% (+18.2% to +153.9%) | 2.9 |
| Kybernetes | 1.46 → 2.02 | +37.1% (+13.8% to +65.1%) | 3.4 |
| Journal of Consumer Behaviour | 2.60 → 3.67 | +40.1% (+13.1% to +73.5%) | 3.2 |
| IEEE Transactions on Engineering Management | 2.21 → 2.88 | +29.1% (+11.9% to +48.9%) | 3.6 |
| Journal of financial reporting & accounting | 3.02 → 4.25 | +39.7% (+11.3% to +75.3%) | 2.9 |
| Journal of Accounting & Organizational Change | 1.86 → 2.84 | +51.3% (+10.9% to +106.4%) | 2.7 |
| Journal of Consumer Psychology | 2.18 → 3.55 | +61.3% (+10.0% to +136.5%) | 2.5 |
| The Learning Organization | 1.44 → 2.26 | +56.3% (+8.4% to +125.4%) | 2.4 |
| Review of Managerial Science | 3.65 → 5.57 | +51.3% (+8.1% to +111.7%) | 2.5 |
| Journal of Open Innovation Technology Market and Complexity | 3.94 → 5.14 | +29.5% (+7.0% to +56.8%) | 2.7 |
| Review of Accounting Studies | 3.97 → 6.69 | +67.1% (+6.8% to +161.5%) | 2.3 |
| Organization Science | 3.31 → 4.62 | +38.2% (+6.7% to +79.1%) | 2.5 |
| Journal of Business and Industrial Marketing | 1.94 → 2.48 | +27.1% (+6.7% to +51.3%) | 2.7 |
| Journal of Operations Management | 4.30 → 6.22 | +43.5% (+6.3% to +93.7%) | 2.4 |
| Journal of Modelling in Management | 1.48 → 2.50 | +67.2% (+6.0% to +163.7%) | 2.3 |
| Journal of Retailing and Consumer Services | 6.65 → 7.93 | +18.2% (+5.4% to +32.5%) | 2.9 |
| Review of Quantitative Finance and Accounting | 1.39 → 1.90 | +36.1% (+5.2% to +76.0%) | 2.4 |
| Asia Pacific Journal of Marketing and Logistics | 2.79 → 3.54 | +26.0% (+5.0% to +51.1%) | 2.5 |
| Journal of Applied Accounting Research | 3.24 → 4.53 | +38.8% (+4.2% to +84.9%) | 2.3 |
| Production and Operations Management | 2.23 → 2.88 | +27.8% (+4.1% to +57.0%) | 2.4 |
| Business Strategy and the Environment | 6.53 → 7.71 | +17.2% (+3.7% to +32.3%) | 2.6 |
| Journal of Small Business Management | 3.74 → 5.06 | +34.3% (+3.1% to +74.9%) | 2.2 |
| Personnel Review | 2.89 → 3.53 | +21.3% (+2.9% to +43.0%) | 2.3 |
| Journal of Consumer Affairs | 1.55 → 2.43 | +55.5% (+2.4% to +136.0%) | 2.1 |
| Contemporary Accounting Research | 2.92 → 4.34 | +47.6% (+2.2% to +113.1%) | 2.1 |
| Regulation & Governance | 2.32 → 3.48 | +48.9% (+2.2% to +116.8%) | 2.1 |
| Asia-Pacific Journal of Accounting & Economics | 1.01 → 1.47 | +45.0% (+1.6% to +107.0%) | 2.1 |
| Corporate Governance An International Review | 2.74 → 4.04 | +46.2% (+1.4% to +110.6%) | 2.1 |
| Managerial Finance | 1.55 → 2.06 | +32.0% (+1.4% to +71.8%) | 2.1 |
How to read this list
Relative change = journal OJR ratio ÷ median group ratio − 1. The journal ratio is its OJR in 2025 divided by its OJR in 2022. The group ratio is the median of those ratios among eligible journals of the field, taken on a log scale: with an even number of journals, it is the geometric mean of the two middle ratios rather than their average.
Indicator year 2022 counts citations to papers published 2019–2021; indicator year 2025 counts citations to papers published 2022–2024. The two publication cohorts do not overlap.
A journal is listed when it is ranked, its relative change is +10% or more, and the change is at least 2 standard errors above zero (z ≥ 2), so the low end of its two-standard-error range is zero or above.
The top journal’s OJR rose from 1.56 to 4.80, starting above the world average of 1.00. Relative to the median journal of its field, its change was +204.1%.