Strategy and Management · 46 journals ranked · top 40 listed
Best open-access journals for Strategy and Management
The top 40 of 46 Strategy and Management journals, open-access only, ranked by Scimago quartile, then by how central Strategy and 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.
- 1Journal of Innovation & Knowledge13.4 cites/paper · Q1 · Elsevier BVOpen AccessDOAJScopusWeb of Science
- 2Journal of Open Innovation Technology Market and Complexity12.1 cites/paper · Q1 · Springer Science+Business MediaOpen AccessDOAJScopus
- 3Sustainability5.6 cites/paper · Q1 · Multidisciplinary Digital Publishing InstituteOpen AccessScopusWeb of SciencePubMed
- 4Systems4.0 cites/paper · Q2 · Multidisciplinary Digital Publishing InstituteOpen AccessDOAJScopusWeb of SciencePubMed
- 5Central European Management Journal3.8 cites/paper · Q2 · Kozminski UniversityOpen AccessDOAJScopusWeb of Science
- 6Schmalenbach Journal of Business Research3.0 cites/paper · Q2 · Springer Science+Business MediaOpen AccessDOAJScopusWeb of SciencePubMed
- 7Administrative Sciences6.1 cites/paper · Q2 · Multidisciplinary Digital Publishing InstituteOpen AccessDOAJScopusWeb of SciencePubMed
- 8Verslas teorija ir praktika2.3 cites/paper · Q3 · Vilnius Gediminas Technical UniversityOpen AccessDOAJScopus
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- 10South African Journal of Business Management3.1 cites/paper · Q3 · AOSISOpen AccessDOAJScopusWeb of Science
- 11Production1.6 cites/paper · Q3 · Associação Brasileira de Engenharia de ProduçãoOpen AccessDOAJScopus
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- 14Revue internationale P M E Économie et gestion de la petite et moyenne entreprise0.3 cites/paper · Q4Open AccessScopusWeb of Science
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- 17International Business Research0.9 cites/paper · no Scimago quartile · Canadian Center of Science and EducationOpen Access
- 18Studia i Prace Kolegium Zarządzania i Finansów / Szkoła Główna Handlowa0.3 cites/paper · no Scimago quartileOpen Access
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- 21Scientific Papers of Silesian University of Technology Organization and Management Series0.2 cites/paper · no Scimago quartile · Silesian University of TechnologyOpen Access
- 22Internationales Verkehrswesen0.1 cites/paper · no Scimago quartile · Saxon State and University Library, DresdenOpen Access
- 23Jurnal Teknik Industri Terintegrasi0.1 cites/paper · no Scimago quartile · Universitas Pahlawan Tuanku TambusaiOpen Access
- 24Business And Management Studies An International Journal0.8 cites/paper · no Scimago quartile · Akademik PlatformOpen AccessTR-Dizin
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- 26Logistics5.4 cites/paper · Q1 · Multidisciplinary Digital Publishing InstituteOpen AccessDOAJScopusWeb of Science
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- 28Journal of Business Economics and Management3.9 cites/paper · Q2 · Vilnius Gediminas Technical UniversityOpen AccessDOAJScopusWeb of Science
- 29Engineering Economics2.2 cites/paper · Q2 · Kaunas University of TechnologyOpen AccessScopusWeb of Science
- 30Agricultural Economics (Zemědělská ekonomika)1.4 cites/paper · Q2 · Czech Academy of Agricultural SciencesOpen AccessDOAJScopusWeb of Science
- 31Economy of Regions1.3 cites/paper · Q3 · Institute of Economics of the Urals Branch of the Russian Academy of SciencesOpen AccessDOAJScopusWeb of Science
- 32RAM. Revista de Administração Mackenzie0.9 cites/paper · Q3 · Universidade Presbiteriana MackenzieOpen AccessDOAJScopus
- 33Revista de Administração Contemporânea0.4 cites/paper · Q3 · Associação Nacional de Pós-Graduação e Pesquisa em Administração (ANPAD)Open AccessDOAJScopus
- 34Zeszyty Teoretyczne Rachunkowości0.8 cites/paper · Q4 · Rada Naukowa SKwPOpen AccessDOAJScopusWeb of Science
- 35Zeitschrift für die gesamte Versicherungswissenschaft0.2 cites/paper · Q4 · Springer Science+Business MediaOpen AccessDOAJScopus
- 36Krakow Review of Economics and Management/Zeszyty Naukowe Uniwersytetu Ekonomicznego w Krakowie1.9 cites/paper · no Scimago quartileOpen AccessDOAJ
- 37International Journal of Business and Management0.9 cites/paper · no Scimago quartile · Canadian Center of Science and EducationOpen Access
- 38Revista Ibero-Americana de Estratégia0.7 cites/paper · no Scimago quartile · Universidade Nove de JulhoOpen Access
- 39Ovidius University Annals Economic Sciences Series0.6 cites/paper · no Scimago quartile · Ovidius University PressOpen AccessDOAJ
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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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