Strategy and Management · 142 journals indexed

Highest-impact journals for Strategy and Management

The top Strategy and Management journals Scimago Q1-Q2 only, ranked by cites/paper, drawn from an17,538-venue index. Predatory venues are excluded. These are field-wide rankings — for a shortlist matched to your specific paper, paste your title and abstract into the free Journal Finder.

  1. 1
    Sustainable Production and Consumption
    10.2 cites/paper · Q1 · Elsevier BV
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  2. 2
    Journal of Open Innovation Technology Market and Complexity
    9.8 cites/paper · Q1 · Springer Science+Business Media
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  3. 3
    Business Horizons
    8.7 cites/paper · Q1 · Elsevier BV
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  4. 4
    Review of Managerial Science
    8.2 cites/paper · Q1 · Springer Science+Business Media
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  5. 5
    Journal of Manufacturing Technology Management
    7.7 cites/paper · Q1 · Emerald Publishing Limited
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  6. 6
    Business Strategy and the Environment
    7.2 cites/paper · Q1 · Wiley
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  7. 7
    Organization & Environment
    7.1 cites/paper · Q1 · SAGE Publishing
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  8. 8
    European Journal of Innovation Management
    7.0 cites/paper · Q1 · Emerald Publishing Limited
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  9. 9
    Technovation
    7.0 cites/paper · Q1 · Elsevier BV
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  10. 10
    Journal of Knowledge Management
    6.4 cites/paper · Q1 · Emerald Publishing Limited
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  11. 11
    Journal of International Business Studies
    6.4 cites/paper · Q1 · Palgrave Macmillan
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  12. 12
    Industrial Marketing Management
    6.2 cites/paper · Q1 · Elsevier BV
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  13. 13
    Strategic Management Journal
    5.9 cites/paper · Q1 · Wiley
    ScopusWeb of SciencePubMed
  14. 14
    Corporate Social Responsibility and Environmental Management
    5.8 cites/paper · Q1 · Wiley
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  15. 15
    IEEE Transactions on Engineering Management
    5.5 cites/paper · Q1 · Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers
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  16. 16
    Journal of Intellectual Capital
    5.4 cites/paper · Q1 · Emerald Publishing Limited
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  17. 17
    Management Decision
    5.3 cites/paper · Q1 · Emerald Publishing Limited
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  18. 18
    Organization Science
    5.3 cites/paper · Q1 · Institute for Operations Research and the Management Sciences
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  19. 19
    International Business Review
    5.3 cites/paper · Q1 · Elsevier BV
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  20. 20
    Long Range Planning
    4.3 cites/paper · Q1 · Elsevier BV
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  21. 21
    Sustainability
    4.3 cites/paper · Q1 · Multidisciplinary Digital Publishing Institute
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  22. 22
    Academy of Management Perspectives
    4.2 cites/paper · Q1 · Academy of Management
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  23. 23
    Journal of Product Innovation Management
    4.2 cites/paper · Q1 · Wiley
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  24. 24
    Journal of World Business
    4.1 cites/paper · Q1 · Elsevier BV
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  25. 25
    International Marketing Review
    4.1 cites/paper · Q1 · Emerald Publishing Limited
    ScopusWeb of Science
  26. 26
    Journal of Engineering and Technology Management
    4.0 cites/paper · Q1 · Elsevier BV
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  27. 27
    Management of Environmental Quality An International Journal
    3.8 cites/paper · Q1 · Emerald Publishing Limited
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  28. 28
    Global Business and Organizational Excellence
    3.8 cites/paper · Q1 · Wiley
    Scopus
  29. 29
    Journal of Business and Industrial Marketing
    3.8 cites/paper · Q1 · Emerald Publishing Limited
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  30. 30
    Social Responsibility Journal
    3.7 cites/paper · Q1 · Emerald Publishing Limited
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  31. 31
    European Business Review
    3.6 cites/paper · Q1 · Emerald Publishing Limited
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  32. 32
    California Management Review
    3.6 cites/paper · Q1 · SAGE Publishing
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  33. 33
    R and D Management
    3.6 cites/paper · Q1 · Wiley
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  34. 34
    Competitiveness Review An International Business Journal incorporating Journal of Global Competitiveness
    3.4 cites/paper · Q1 · Emerald Publishing Limited
    ScopusWeb of Science
  35. 35
    Creativity and Innovation Management
    3.2 cites/paper · Q1 · Wiley
    ScopusWeb of Science
  36. 36
    European Management Journal
    2.9 cites/paper · Q1 · Elsevier BV
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  37. 37
    Management International Review
    2.8 cites/paper · Q1 · Springer Science+Business Media
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  38. 38
    Strategic Change
    2.8 cites/paper · Q1 · Wiley
    ScopusWeb of Science
  39. 39
    Journal of International Management
    2.8 cites/paper · Q1 · Elsevier BV
    ScopusWeb of Science
  40. 40
    Industry and Innovation
    2.7 cites/paper · Q1 · Taylor & Francis
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“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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