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Journal of Organizational Change Management is Scopus-indexed (Q1, CiteScore 7.4), ABDC B, ABS / AJG 2, WoS SSCI. It is covered by India's One Nation One Subscription scheme for reading access. Published by Emerald Group Publishing.
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ISSN 0953-4814Verify ISSN ↗1758-7816Verify ISSN ↗
Publisher: Emerald Group Publishing
Cost to publish: No APC data — check the publisher
| Subject area | Rank | Pctile | Q |
|---|---|---|---|
| Organizational Behavior and Human Resource Management | 53 / 254 | 79th | Q1 |
| Strategy and Management | 131 / 506 | 74th | Q2 |
| Management of Technology and Innovation | 84 / 317 | 73rd | Q2 |
| Decision Sciences (all) | 14 / 43 | 68th | Q2 |
Not listed in: DOAJ, FT50, UT Dallas, ONOS (APC covered)
Yes — actively indexed in Scopus, coverage 1988–present, best quartile Q1, CiteScore 7.4.
Journal of Organizational Change Management is Q1 in Organizational Behavior and Human Resource Management (rank 53 of 254), Q2 in Strategy and Management (rank 131 of 506) and Q2 in Management of Technology and Innovation (rank 84 of 317), by CiteScore 2025. It is ranked in 4 subject areas in all.
Journal of Organizational Change Management 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 7.4, which places it in quartile Q1 at the 79th percentile of its subject. Its SCImago Journal Rank (SJR, a free Scopus-based metric) is 0.887, quartile Q1, with an H-index of 94.
Journal of Organizational Change Management is published by Emerald Group Publishing. Its print ISSN is 0953-4814 and its online ISSN is 1758-7816.
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 Social Sciences Citation Index.
It is rated B in the ABDC Journal Quality List 2025 under Strategy, management and organisational behaviour.
It is graded 2 in the Chartered Association of Business Schools (ABS) Academic Journal Guide (AJG) 2024, in the Organisation Studies field, unchanged from 2021.
No — it is not registered as an open-access journal in DOAJ or Scopus.
Journal of Organizational Change Management has an h-index of 122 and a 2-year mean of 5.24 citations per paper (OpenAlex). Its Scopus CiteScore is 7.4, quartile Q1. On 2-year citations it ranks #26 of 250 Scopus journals in Organizational Behavior and Human Resource Management.
Journal of Organizational Change Management published 87 papers in 2025; its busiest recent year was 2018 with 97. 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 95 research articles (2025–2026), authors are most often from China (9.6%), United States (8.1%) and Poland (6.8%).
Countries are counted fractionally, so a paper by authors from two countries counts half to each.
Scopus status: Active. 1 retracted paper is recorded (0.5 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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