Journal profile · MANAGEMENT
European Management Review
ISSN 1740-4754 · eISSN 1740-4762 · Wiley-Blackwell
European Management Review: CAS Zone 3 · Management (2025 upgraded edition); impact factor 3.08; hybrid open access; APC about USD 3,350; median 614 days to acceptance (84 articles, last 24 months); acceptance rate 9% (journal website); 58 articles in 2025; indexed in SSCI and Scopus.
Scope
Aims, scope and focus
European Management Review is published by Wiley-Blackwell and is in Zone 3 of Management in the CAS Journal Ranking (2025 upgraded edition). By OpenAlex counts of its recent articles, its largest topics are Innovation and Knowledge Management, Management and Organizational Studies and Corporate Finance and Governance, together about 34.8% of its articles. Its main subfields are Strategy and Management and Organizational Behavior and Human Resource Management. (generated from OpenAlex topic counts and CAS ranking data)
Management is chiefly about the deliberate coordination and direction of activities and resources in which effectiveness matters, and EMR aims to advance not only the understanding of management practices, but also their deliberate shaping and design. This improvement-oriented approach can be applied to any setting (private or public, business or voluntary, intra- or inter-organizational, national or international) and EMR welcomes studies in all of them.EMR is a general management journal. It is concerned with general questions regarding the governance, organization, and behaviour of entities, and of their relationship with participants, counterparts, competitors, and contexts. Hence, it is receptive to research across a broad range of research areas, signalled in the editorial structure section, but it is not the sum of specialized contributions: it is distinctively interested in linking; linking specialized domains to each other and to general management questions; and linking management studies to the social sciences where they belong. This positioning is signalled and implemented by Editors with broad cross-area knowledge, and by Consulting Editors with deep knowledge of the relationship between management and economics, sociology, law, history, philosophy, and design sciences.Europe is constituted by a differentiated and integrated set of national and supra-national institutions, with a millenary heritage. EMR seeks to leverage this richness by cultivating interest in diversity, multilateralism, comparative analysis, and historical context, in an outreaching spirit. EMR welcomes contributions from across the world, contributing to the development of effective and equitable management theories and practices of global interest.EMR values rigorous, analytic, intersubjectively testable research, illuminated by openness and critical mindedness and justified by relevance of content. The importance attributed to method is signalled by our ‘Methodology Matters’ dedicated section. We acknowledge that there is a plurality of valuable research designs and strategies, with their own specific canons of rigour, and we welcome studies conforming to any of them - no matter whether data are quantitative or qualitative. EMR is also open to diverse formats, notably works ranging from purely theoretical to entirely empirical. We publish full articles and shorter ‘Points & Dialogues’, along with literature reviews. For the sake of both fairness and efficiency, the EMR ed
From the journal's Aims & Scope
Research area (LetPub): MANAGEMENT
Main research topics OpenAlex counts of recent articles; shares are approximate
- Innovation and Knowledge ManagementBusiness, Management and Accounting14.6%
- Management and Organizational StudiesBusiness, Management and Accounting11.4%
- Corporate Finance and GovernanceBusiness, Management and Accounting8.8%
- Job Satisfaction and Organizational BehaviorBusiness, Management and Accounting6.7%
- Entrepreneurship Studies and InfluencesBusiness, Management and Accounting6.1%
- Business Strategy and InnovationBusiness, Management and Accounting6.1%
- Family Business Performance and SuccessionBusiness, Management and Accounting4.9%
- Corporate Social Responsibility ReportingBusiness, Management and Accounting3.8%
Rankings & indexing
CAS ranking and database indexing
CAS Journal Ranking
CAS Journal Ranking, upgraded edition (March 2025)Management Zone 3
| Level | Category | Zone |
|---|---|---|
| Major | Management | Zone 3 |
| Minor | Management | Zone 4 |
Top journal: noReview journal: no
CAS Xinrui Journal Ranking (March 2026)Management Zone 3
| Level | Category | Zone |
|---|---|---|
| Major | Management | Zone 3 |
| Minor | Management | Zone 3 |
Top journal: noReview journal: not marked
CAS Journal Ranking, previous upgraded edition (December 2023)Management Zone 3
| Level | Category | Zone |
|---|---|---|
| Major | Management | Zone 3 |
| Minor | Management | Zone 4 |
Top journal: noReview journal: no
Database indexing
SSCIScopusLetPub
International journal early-warning lists: not listed in any editionLetPub
Indexing the journal's website claims
Web of ScienceCurrent ContentsPublisher website
Other: EBSCO, ProQuest, OCLC
As the journal's website lists them, not checked against each database; for Web of Science editions the records above apply.
Editions, and major and minor categories, are shown separately and never merged into one zone; check which edition your institution uses before you submit or report.
Metrics
Impact metrics and publication volume
Impact
- Impact factor
- 3.08LetPub ·
- Impact factor (publisher)
- 3.1Publisher website ·
- Impact factor (publisher) 2025
- 3.1Publisher website ·
- CiteScore 2026-06
- 6.7LetPub ·
- CiteScore (publisher)
- 6.7Publisher website ·
- CiteScore (publisher) 2025
- 6.7Publisher website ·
- SJR 2026-06
- 1.2LetPub ·
- SNIP 2026-06
- 1.55LetPub ·
- h-index
- 80OpenAlex ·
- i10-index
- 510OpenAlex ·
- 2-year mean citedness
- 2.51OpenAlex ·
- Self-citation rate
- 3.2%LetPub ·
- Share of gold OA articles
- 61.62%LetPub ·
Volume
- Articles per year
- 47LetPub ·
- Articles per year (publisher) 2025
- 47Publisher website ·
- Downloads per year (publisher) 2025
- 261,183Publisher website ·
Articles by year OpenAlex count · 1,005 in total · the current year is incomplete
| Year | Articles | Open access | Citations |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2026 | 67 | 47 | 21 |
| 2025 | 58 | 44 | 77 |
| 2024 | 75 | 58 | 404 |
| 2023 | 85 | 68 | 1,086 |
| 2022 | 62 | 41 | 1,031 |
| 2021 | 54 | 31 | 1,104 |
Sources count differently and were observed at different times, so each source's own value is kept; "publisher" marks figures from the journal's website.
Review & acceptance
Review time and acceptance
Review time from article dates manuscript dates registered with Crossref · to
614 daysMedian, submission to acceptance · P25–P75 464 days – 733 days
- Acceptance to online
- median 24 days (84 articles)
- Submission to online
- median 643 days
- Sample
- 84 articles with submission and acceptance dates (137 in the window); the latest was accepted on
Only articles that were accepted and published are counted, not the time spent on rejected manuscripts, so this usually runs longer than a publisher's "time to first decision".
Other sources
- Acceptance rate (publisher)
- 9%Publisher website ·
- Acceptance rate (publisher) 2025
- 9%Publisher website ·
- Submission to first decision
- 33 daysPublisher website ·
- Submission to first decision 2025
- 33 daysPublisher website ·
- Submission to acceptance 2025
- 612 daysPublisher website ·
- Acceptance to publication 2025
- 17 daysPublisher website ·
- Peer review
- Double-anonymous peer reviewPublisher website · model-extracted
Community reports come from authors' own submissions (confidence 0.5) and are not a promise from the journal; for publisher figures, the journal's own definitions apply.
Fees & open access
APC and open-access policy
Hybrid open accessLetPub
A subscription journal in which authors can pay to publish their article open access.
| Source | APC | Fee waiver | License | Observed |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| OpenAlex | USD 3,350 / EUR 2,850 / GBP 2,220 | — | — |
A hybrid journal charges the APC only when the author chooses open access; publishing under the subscription model is usually free.
The journal's website is authoritative for fees; sources were observed at different times and each keeps its own value, without averaging.
Submission
Article types and submission policies (journal website)
What to prepare8 items from the author guidelines
- Abstract
- ≤ 250 words
- Reference style
- APA
- Templates
- Word
- First submission
- Free format: the journal's layout is not required
- Suggested reviewers
- Required
- Highlights
- Required
- Graphical abstract
- Optional
- Cover letter
- Required
Article types accepted7, with length limits
- methodological articlesMethodological Articles: EMR is committed to maintaining its long-standing tradition of publishing papers entirely devoted to methodological issues, for example…Length not stated
- perspectived comparative assessment of theoretical perspectives (Max length : 11.000 words) Research Articles: Research articles contribute to knowledmain text ≤ 11,000 words
- perspective articlesPerspective Articles: Conceptual essays proposing a new lens, a critique of a particular management theory or practice, the adoption of new research standards, …Length not stated
- research articlesResearch Articles: Research articles contribute to knowledge advancement by formulating and empirically testing existing or new propositions. Empirical studies …Length not stated
- research dialoguesResearch Dialogues: bring together several voices dealing with a particular issue, usually conceptual, methodological or policy oriented (Max length depends on …Length not stated
- theoretical articlesTheoretical Articles: Development of new models and approaches, theoretical lenses, critical and comparative assessment of theoretical perspectives (Max length …Length not stated
- viewpointsViewpoints: Brief contributions offering particular insights, positions, guidelines that may stimulate improvements in management theory or practice (Approximat…Length not stated
Policy excerpts from the journal's websiteAI use, Authorship, Publication ethics, License & copyright, Open access, Peer review, Preprints
- AI use
AI use disclosure required Model summary
In line with Wiley’s policies, Authors are asked to include a statement on whether AI was used in the preparation of your manuscript beyond editing; specifying the parts of the manuscript affected, and the steps taken to verify the output of the AI tool.
Source ↗Publisher website ·- Authorship
Abstract word limit of 250 words Model summary
Authors are asked to supply an abstract of no more than 250 words.
Source ↗Publisher website ·- Publication ethics
Multiple submissions restriction Model summary
For the sake of fair allocation of scarce editorial resources, multiple submissions involving the same author(s) within the same semester cannot be processed.
Source ↗Publisher website ·- License & copyright Copyright Transfer Agreement
If your paper is accepted, the author identified as the formal corresponding author for the paper will receive an email prompting them to login into Author Services; where via the Wiley Author Licensing Service (WALS) they will be able to complete the license agreement on behalf of all authors on the paper.
Source ↗Publisher website ·- Open access For authors choosing Open Access
If the Open Access option is selected the corresponding author will have a choice of the following Creative Commons License Open Access Agreements (OAA):
Source ↗Publisher website ·- Peer review
Double-blind peer review Model summary
All articles submitted to EMR are double-blind reviewed.
Source ↗Publisher website ·- Preprints
Preprint posting allowed Model summary
Authors may also post the submitted version of a manuscript to a preprint server at any time.
Source ↗Publisher website ·
Excerpts are quoted from the journal's website; "model summary" lines are written by Workers AI and checked against the text. The journal's website is authoritative.
Profile
Publication details and official links
- Publisher
- Wiley-Blackwell
- ISSN
- 1740-4754
- Electronic ISSN
- 1740-4762
- Official links
- Journal homepage ↗OpenAlex
- Special issues ↗Publisher website
FAQ
Frequently asked questions about European Management Review
What CAS zone is European Management Review in?
In the 2025 upgraded edition of the CAS Journal Ranking, European Management Review is in Zone 3 of Management, and in Zone 4 of the minor category Management. In the 2026 Xinrui edition it is in Zone 3 of Management. Zones from different editions, and from major and minor categories, are not interchangeable.
What is the impact factor of European Management Review?
The latest impact factor listed by LetPub is 3.08; CiteScore 6.7, h-index 80.
How long does peer review take at European Management Review?
Based on the dates recorded on 84 articles published between October 2024 and October 2026 (the last 24 months), the median time from submission to acceptance is 614 days (interquartile range 464–733 days); the journal's website gives an acceptance rate of 9% (2025). Article statistics cover accepted papers only, publisher figures follow the journal's own definitions, and community reports come from authors' own submissions; none is a promise from the journal.
What are the manuscript requirements of European Management Review?
According to the journal's author guidelines: Abstract: ≤ 250 words; Reference style: APA; Templates: Word; First submission: Free format: the journal's layout is not required; Suggested reviewers: Required; Highlights: Required; Graphical abstract: Optional; Cover letter: Required. A model extracted these from the author guidelines and each was checked against the text; check the latest version on the journal's website before submitting.
Which databases index European Management Review?
According to LetPub and DOAJ records, European Management Review is indexed in SSCI and Scopus. The journal's website also lists Web of Science and Current Contents; that list has not been checked against each database.
Is European Management Review open access, and what is the APC?
European Management Review is a hybrid journal. For open-access publication: APC about USD 3,350.
Sources and updates
The facts on this page come from LetPub, Publisher website, OpenAlex; every figure is tagged with its source and the date it was observed, and conflicting values are kept per source. LetPub source page: view ↗ (archived 2026-08-25). Last updated: .