Top Management Journals

Publishing in recognized top journals provides an important signal of quality that is useful in the evaluation of scholarly productivity. These lists provide guidance to management scholars regarding the elite and distinguished journals, as well as the Financial Times top 50, that are recognized as top outlets for their work.

Widely Recognized & Elite Journals

Academy of Management Journal
Academy of Management Review
Accounting, Organizations and Society
Accounting Review, The
Administrative Science Quarterly
American Economic Review
American Journal of Sociology
American Sociological Review
Econometrica
Information Systems Research
Journal of Accounting and Economics
Journal of Accounting Research
Journal of Applied Psychology
Journal of Consumer Research
Journal of Economic Geography
Journal of Environmental Economics and Management
Journal of Finance
Journal of Financial & Quantitative Analysis
Journal of Financial Economics
Journal of International Business Studies
Journal of International Economics
Journal of Marketing
Journal of Marketing Research
Journal of Monetary Economics
Journal of Money, Credit and Banking
Journal of Operations Management
Journal of Personality and Social Psychology
Journal of Political Economy
Journal of Public Economics
Journal of the American Statistical Association
Journal of Urban Economics
Management Information Systems (MIS) Quarterly
Management Science
Marketing Science
Mathematical Programming
Mathematics of Operations Research
Operations Research
Organization Science
Organizational Behavior and Human Decision Processes
Personnel Psychology
Production and Operations Management
Psychological Bulletin
Psychological Science
Quarterly Journal of Economics
RAND Journal of Economics, The
Research Policy
Review of Economic Studies
Review of Economics and Statistics
Review of Financial Studies
Science
Strategic Management Journal

Distinguished Journals

Accounting Horizons
Annual Review of Sociology
British Journal of Industrial Relations
Canadian Journal of Economics
Contemporary Accounting Research
Decision Support Systems
Entrepreneurship, Theory and Practice
European Journal of Information Systems
European Journal of Operational Research
Games and Economic Behavior
Human Resource Management
Industrial and Corporate Change
Industrial Relations
Industrial & Labor Relations Review (ILR Review)
Information and Organization
Information Systems Journal
INFORMS Journal on Computing
International Economic Review
International Journal of Industrial Organization
International Journal of Research in Marketing
Journal of Accounting, Auditing & Finance
Journal of the American Tax Association
Journal of the Association for Information Systems
Journal of Banking & Finance
Journal of Business & Economic Statistics
Journal of Business Ethics
Journal of Business Logistics
Journal of Business Venturing
Journal of Consumer Psychology
Journal of Corporate Finance
Journal of Econometrics
Journal of Economic Theory
Journal of Economics & Management Strategy
Journal of Empirical Finance
Journal of Experimental Social Psychology
Journal of Industrial Economics
Journal of International Money and Finance
Journal of Law and Economics
Journal of Management
Journal of Management Information Systems
Journal of Management Studies
Journal of Organizational Behavior
Journal of Retailing
Manufacturing & Service Operations Management
Organization Studies
Personality and Social Psychology Bulletin
Quantitative Marketing and Economics
Real Estate Economics
Regional Science and Urban Economics
Review of Accounting Studies
Review of Economic Dynamics
Social Forces
Strategic Organization

Leading Practitioner Journals

Academy of Management Perspectives
California Management Review
Harvard Business Review
MIT Sloan Management Review

Financial Times Top 50 Journals

Academy of Management Journal
Academy of Management Review
Accounting, Organizations and Society
Accounting Review, The
Administrative Science Quarterly
American Economic Review
Contemporary Accounting Research
Econometrica
Entrepreneurship, Theory and Practice
Harvard Business Review
Human Relations
Human Resource Management
Information Systems Research
Journal of Academy of Marketing Science
Journal of Accounting and Economics
Journal of Accounting Research
Journal of Applied Psychology
Journal of Business Ethics
Journal of Business Venturing
Journal of Consumer Psychology
Journal of Consumer Research
Journal of Finance
Journal of Financial & Quantitative Analysis
Journal of Financial Economics
Journal of International Business Studies
Journal of Management
Journal of Management Information Systems
Journal of Management Studies
Journal of Marketing
Journal of Marketing Research
Journal of Operations Management
Journal of Political Economy
Management Information Systems (MIS) Quarterly
Management Science
Manufacturing and Service Operations Management
Marketing Science
MIT Sloan Management Review
Operations Research
Organization Science
Organization Studies
Organizational Behavior and Human Decision Processes
Production and Operations Management
Quarterly Journal of Economics
Research Policy
Review of Accounting Studies
Review of Economic Studies
Review of Finance
Review of Financial Studies
Strategic Entrepreneurship Journal
Strategic Management Journal