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Academy of Management Journal is Scopus-indexed (Q1, CiteScore 19.8), ABDC A*, ABS / AJG 4*, WoS SSCI, FT50, UT Dallas 24. Published by Academy of Management.
Checked against the index lists dated .
ISSN 0001-4273Verify ISSN ↗1948-0989Verify ISSN ↗
Publisher: Academy of Management
Cost to publish: No APC data — check the publisher
| Subject area | Rank | Pctile | Q |
|---|---|---|---|
| Business, Management and Accounting (all) | 2 / 235 | 99th | Q1 |
| Business and International Management | 11 / 456 | 97th | Q1 |
| Management of Technology and Innovation | 8 / 317 | 97th | Q1 |
| Strategy and Management | 14 / 506 | 97th | Q1 |
| Stage | Typical time |
|---|---|
| Submission → first decision | 60 days |
Not listed in: DOAJ, ONOS (subscription), ONOS (APC covered)
Yes — actively indexed in Scopus, coverage 1989–present (also 1975–1987), best quartile Q1, CiteScore 19.8.
Academy of Management Journal is Q1 in Business, Management and Accounting (all) (rank 2 of 235), Q1 in Business and International Management (rank 11 of 456) and Q1 in Management of Technology and Innovation (rank 8 of 317), by CiteScore 2025. It is ranked in 4 subject areas in all.
Academy of Management Journal is indexed in the Social Sciences Citation Index, so it may have a Journal Impact Factor in Clarivate's Journal Citation Reports. JCR is paid, so check it for the current value. The closest free measure is its Scopus CiteScore 19.8, which places it in quartile Q1 at the 99th percentile of its subject. Its SCImago Journal Rank (SJR, a free Scopus-based metric) is 10.781, quartile Q1, with an H-index of 410.
Academy of Management Journal is published by Academy of Management. Its print ISSN is 0001-4273 and its online ISSN is 1948-0989.
Yes — indexed in the Social Sciences Citation Index.
It is rated A* in the ABDC Journal Quality List 2025 under Strategy, management and organisational behaviour.
It is graded 4* in the Chartered Association of Business Schools (ABS) Academic Journal Guide (AJG) 2024, in the Ethics, Corporate Social Responsibility and Management field, unchanged from 2021.
No — it is not registered as an open-access journal in DOAJ or Scopus.
Academy of Management Journal has an h-index of 574 and a 2-year mean of 6.64 citations per paper (OpenAlex). Its Scopus CiteScore is 19.8, quartile Q1. On 2-year citations it ranks #13 of 221 Scopus journals in Business, Management and Accounting (all).
Academy of Management Journal published 60 papers in 2025; its busiest recent year was 2017 with 92. 2026* is the year so far.
h-index, i10-index and 2-year mean citedness are open, licence-clear metrics from OpenAlex — not a proprietary impact factor. The subject rank counts only journals that OpenAlex has a figure for; it is not a Scopus or Clarivate ranking. Updated 2026-10-14.
In its latest 99 research articles (2025–2026), authors are most often from United States (46.2%), United Kingdom (14.3%) and Canada (4.9%).
Countries are counted fractionally, so a paper by authors from two countries counts half to each.
Scopus status: Active. 4 retracted papers are recorded (0.6 per 1,000 papers). The Problematic Paper Screener flags none of its papers. These are indicators to check, not findings against the journal.
Retractions from OpenAlex; flags from the Problematic Paper Screener (Cabanac, Labbé & Magazinov, CC BY), 2026-09-21 export. A flag marks a paper for a closer look; it is not a finding against the journal.
Index data is curated from public sources (Scopus, Web of Science, ABDC, FT50, UT Dallas, DOAJ). CiteScore and quartiles reflect the latest available Scopus release. Always verify a journal's current status on its official source before submitting.
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