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Journal of General Management is Scopus-indexed (Q2, CiteScore 4), ABDC C, ABS / AJG 1, WoS ESCI. It is covered by India's One Nation One Subscription scheme for reading access. Published by Sage Publications.
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ISSN 0306-3070Verify ISSN ↗1759-6106Verify ISSN ↗
Publisher: Sage Publications
Cost to publish: No APC data — check the publisher
| Subject area | Rank | Pctile | Q |
|---|---|---|---|
| Business, Management and Accounting (miscellaneous) | 74 / 235 | 68th | Q2 |
| Strategy and Management | 241 / 506 | 52nd | Q2 |
Not listed in: DOAJ, FT50, UT Dallas, ONOS (APC covered)
Yes — actively indexed in Scopus, coverage 2005–present (also 1982), best quartile Q2, CiteScore 4.
Journal of General Management is Q2 in Business, Management and Accounting (miscellaneous) (rank 74 of 235) and Q2 in Strategy and Management (rank 241 of 506), by CiteScore 2025.
Journal of General Management is indexed in the Emerging Sources 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 4, which places it in quartile Q2 at the 68th percentile of its subject. Its SCImago Journal Rank (SJR, a free Scopus-based metric) is 0.399, quartile Q2, with an H-index of 29.
Journal of General Management is published by Sage Publications. Its print ISSN is 0306-3070 and its online ISSN is 1759-6106.
Yes. It is part of the One Nation One Subscription (ONOS) national subscription, so readers at participating Indian institutions get its full text. ONOS does not cover its article processing charge.
Yes — indexed in the Emerging Sources Citation Index.
It is rated C in the ABDC Journal Quality List 2025 under Strategy, management and organisational behaviour.
It is graded 1 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.
Journal of General Management has an h-index of 60 and a 2-year mean of 1.94 citations per paper (OpenAlex). Its Scopus CiteScore is 4, quartile Q2. On 2-year citations it ranks #93 of 224 Scopus journals in Business, Management and Accounting (miscellaneous).
Journal of General Management published 38 papers in 2025; its busiest recent year was 2022 with 74. 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 98 research articles (2023–2026), authors are most often from United States (20.2%), China (6.8%) and France (6.1%).
Countries are counted fractionally, so a paper by authors from two countries counts half to each.
Scopus status: Active. No retracted papers are recorded. 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.
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