Journal profile · MANAGEMENT
Independent Journal of Management & Production
ISSN 2236-269X
Independent Journal of Management & Production: CAS Zone 4 · Management (2025 upgraded edition); fully open access; flagged on an early-warning list or for an indexing change: check before submitting.
The latest issue on the journal's website is from 2022 (Volume 13, Issue 5): the journal may have stopped publishing or moved platform in the last two years. Check its website before submitting.
Scope
Aims, scope and focus
Independent Journal of Management & Production is in Zone 4 of Management in the CAS Journal Ranking (2025 upgraded edition). By OpenAlex counts of its recent articles, its largest topics are Quality and Supply Management, Business and Management Studies and Economic and Business Development Strategies, together about 26.6% of its articles. (generated from OpenAlex topic counts and CAS ranking data)
The IJM&P is a journal for unpublished works related to Administration and Engineering of Production and Mechanics and Economics and Agricultural and Natural Resource as well as works that present results of studies and researches about the activities of Science and Technology Information. The Journal is published on a bimonthly basis in "February, April, June, August, October and December". All items sent to the newspaper, go through the peer review, being all members of the international scientific community. For further detailed information, please see about and policies Click here. This is an open access journal which means that all content is freely available without charge to the user or his/her institution. Users are allowed to read, download, copy, distribute, print, search, or link to the full texts of the articles, or use them for any other lawful purpose, without asking prior permission from the publisher or the author. This is in accordance with the BOAI definition of open access. It is important to mention that all the works are showed without any kind of payment. All of them are published free from payments or taxes. The material submitted to this journal should be unpublished and, therefore it must not have been published or submitted to meetings or to other periodic. The article should effectively represent contribution within the area and discuss about a relevant topic. The theoretical basis should be up-to-date and should represent the state-of-the-art of the knowledge in the area. The scientific method should be explicited and the analyses and conclusions should be clear and lined up to the considered objective. Works that involve pure bibliography revision should deal with a current thematic and the approach should be deepened and analytical. The IJM&P publishes works in English. Independent Journal of Management & Production is a Brazilian electronic journal, which addresses the scientific community: teachers, researchers, students and professionals working in the field of production engineering and related (Administration, Accounting and Economics). We share the scientific data of our journal using the OAI-PMH protocol (Open Archives Initiative Protocol for Metadata Harvesting) which allows the transfer of digital resources, mainly of a scientific nature and with free access. can be observed by clicking on the Open Archive logo. We currently encourage the dissemination of articles published on social and scientific networks, such as Linkedin, ResearchGate, Mendeley, Academia.edu among others, which the authors have access to. Currently our journal in partnership with, starting with indexing with DialNet plus, we keep a copy of all articles submitted, approved and published. This information can be observed by clicking on the DialNet Plus logo. The following is the pie chart with distribution of users by Degree Journal, this distribution is represented in percentages. Messrs. About authors on the link, submissions, Author guidelines, we provide templates for article submission: the first template is the unidentified one called "Manuscript Template", in which the rules of formatting and citation are included, the second template called "Manuscript Template author identification", it would be for photo ID, and a biographical resumé, the third template entitled "Authorship responsibility and Copyright Transfer" is the copyright and responsibility of the authors, this template must be dated and signed by all authors, the second and third template must be sent in a supplementary file option Click here. The journal also allows the publication of Master's Degree Dissertations and Doctoral and Postdoctoral Thesis to stimulate the dissemination and interchange of tacit and explicit knowledge in any language. Guidelines of ethics incorporated into the journal activities contributing to the improvement of the quality and clarity of the submitted manuscripts, these guidelines are being made available in October 2014.
From the journal's Aims & Scope
Research area (LetPub): MANAGEMENT
Editorial board by country: none in mainland China; most named Brazil 11, Ukraine 3, Romania 2, Spain 1, Greece 1 (20 members with a country) Editorial board ↗Publisher website ·
Main research topics OpenAlex counts of recent articles; shares are approximate
- Quality and Supply ManagementBusiness, Management and Accounting10.4%
- Business and Management StudiesDecision Sciences10.2%
- Economic and Business Development StrategiesEconomics, Econometrics and Finance6.1%
- Sustainable Supply Chain ManagementBusiness, Management and Accounting5.9%
- Business and Economic DevelopmentEnvironmental Science5.2%
- Economic Issues in UkraineEconomics, Econometrics and Finance4.8%
- Diverse Scientific and Economic StudiesEconomics, Econometrics and Finance4.5%
- Operations Management TechniquesDecision Sciences4.2%
Rankings & indexing
CAS ranking and database indexing
CAS Journal Ranking
CAS Journal Ranking, upgraded edition (March 2025)Management Zone 4
| Level | Category | Zone |
|---|---|---|
| Major | Management | Zone 4 |
| Minor | Management | Zone 4 |
Top journal: noReview journal: no
CAS Xinrui Journal Ranking (March 2026)Not covered
Not covered by this edition.
CAS Journal Ranking, previous upgraded edition (December 2023)Not covered
Not covered by this edition.
Database indexing
Indexed in: no record yet.
Early warning / risk: Removed from ESCI for production reasons on 22 April 2025. CAS Early Warning Journal List: not listed in any of 6 editions.LetPub
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
- h-index
- 27OpenAlex ·
- i10-index
- 185OpenAlex ·
- 2-year mean citedness
- 0OpenAlex ·
- Share of gold OA articles
- 91.51%LetPub ·
Articles by year OpenAlex count · 985 in total · the current year is incomplete
| Year | Articles | Open access | Citations |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2022 | 105 | 105 | 485 |
| 2021 | 182 | 182 | 938 |
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.
Fees & open access
APC and open-access policy
Every article is open access; authors usually pay an article processing charge (APC).
No source has fee information yet; check the journal's website.
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)
Policy excerpts from the journal's websiteOpen access, Peer review
- Open access
Open access Model summary
This is an open access journal which means that all content is freely available without charge to the user or his/her institution.
Source ↗Publisher website ·- Peer review
Peer review Model summary
All items sent to the newspaper, go through the peer review, being all members of the international scientific community.
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
- ISSN
- 2236-269X
- Latest issue on the website
- Volume 13, Issue 5 (2022)
- Official links
- Journal homepage ↗OpenAlex
FAQ
Frequently asked questions about Independent Journal of Management & Production
What CAS zone is Independent Journal of Management & Production in?
In the 2025 upgraded edition of the CAS Journal Ranking, Independent Journal of Management & Production is in Zone 4 of Management, and in Zone 4 of the minor category Management. Zones from different editions, and from major and minor categories, are not interchangeable.
Where are the editorial board members of Independent Journal of Management & Production based?
Of the 20 board members whose country the journal's board page names, none are in mainland China; the countries named most often are Brazil (11), Ukraine (3) and Romania (2). Counted from the institutions listed on the board page; for reference only.
Is Independent Journal of Management & Production open access, and what is the APC?
Independent Journal of Management & Production is a fully open-access journal. Fee information is not available yet; check the journal's website.
Sources and updates
The facts on this page come from LetPub, OpenAlex, Publisher website; 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: .