Best journals for Organizational Behavior and Human Resource Management
The top 40 of 250 Organizational Behavior and Human Resource Management journals, ranked by Scimago quartile, then by how central Organizational Behavior and Human Resource Management is to each journal, then OpenAlex cites/paper (2-year window), drawn from a 17,500-venue index. Predatory venues are excluded; the FAQ below gives the exact ranking rule. These are field-wide rankings — for a shortlist matched to your specific paper, paste your title and abstract into the Journal Finder (a free account starts with 25 welcome credits).
Data as of — the date our venue index was last rebuilt from OpenAlex and Scimago.
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- 5International Journal of Hospitality Management8.8 cites/paper · Q1 · Elsevier BVScopusWeb of SciencePubMed
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- 8Organization Science8.2 cites/paper · Q1 · Institute for Operations Research and the Management SciencesScopusWeb of SciencePubMed
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- 11Globalization and Health7.3 cites/paper · Q1 · BioMed CentralOpen AccessDOAJScopusWeb of SciencePubMed
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- 18Journal of Organizational Change Management5.4 cites/paper · Q1 · Emerald Publishing LimitedScopusWeb of Science
- 19European Journal of Work and Organizational Psychology5.3 cites/paper · Q1 · Taylor & FrancisScopusWeb of SciencePubMed
- 20The International Journal of Human Resource Management5.2 cites/paper · Q1 · RoutledgeScopusWeb of SciencePubMed
- 21Journal of Applied Psychology5.1 cites/paper · Q1 · American Psychological AssociationScopusWeb of SciencePubMed
- 22Journal of Occupational and Organizational Psychology5.0 cites/paper · Q1 · WileyScopusWeb of SciencePubMed
- 23Journal of Business and Psychology4.8 cites/paper · Q1 · Springer Science+Business MediaScopusWeb of SciencePubMed
- 24German Journal of Human Resource Management Zeitschrift für Personalforschung4.7 cites/paper · Q1ScopusWeb of SciencePubMed
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- 26Leadership & Organization Development Journal4.6 cites/paper · Q1 · Emerald Publishing LimitedScopusWeb of Science
- 27Human Resource Development International4.5 cites/paper · Q1 · Taylor & FrancisScopusWeb of SciencePubMed
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- 31International journal of organizational analysis4.2 cites/paper · Q1 · Emerald Publishing LimitedScopusWeb of Science
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- 33Journal of Personal Selling and Sales Management4.2 cites/paper · Q1 · Taylor & FrancisScopusWeb of Science
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- 36Journal of Managerial Psychology3.9 cites/paper · Q1 · Emerald Publishing LimitedScopusWeb of SciencePubMed
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- 40The Journal of Applied Behavioral Science3.7 cites/paper · Q1 · SAGE PublishingScopusWeb of SciencePubMed
“Cites/paper” is the OpenAlex 2-year citation rate — a transparent signal, not a licensed Impact Factor. Many regional and open-access journals are strong but aren’t covered by Scimago, so they show “no Scimago quartile”; that’s a coverage gap, not a quality judgement.
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