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International Journal of Management Reviews
ISSN 1460-8545 · eISSN 1468-2370 · Wiley-Blackwell
International Journal of Management Reviews: CAS Zone 2 · Management (2025 upgraded edition); impact factor 13.27; hybrid open access; APC about USD 4,220; median 626 days to acceptance (52 articles, last 24 months); acceptance rate 3% (journal website); 30 articles in 2025; indexed in SSCI and Scopus.
Scope
Aims, scope and focus
International Journal of Management Reviews is published by Wiley-Blackwell and is in Zone 2 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 Entrepreneurship Studies and Influences, together about 34.8% of its articles. Its main subfields are Strategy and Management. (generated from OpenAlex topic counts and CAS ranking data)
International Journal of Management Reviews IJMR IJMR IJMR IJMR IJMR IJMR IJMR Members of the academic community who will expect to be kept abreast of disciplinary areas outside of their own specific domains of expertise. The journal will enable senior faculty to undertake more interdisciplinary research by providing a wider understanding or emerging thought and methodological developments in other fields, and by so doing, facilitating the development of transdisciplinarity. More established researchers who are looking to update their knowledge in their own particular field, or who are shifting their area of focus or developing collaborative or inter-disciplinary work extending beyond their established specialisation. Supporting doctoral candidates in the production of their theses by producing comprehensive reviews/debates and to locate their research within past, present and future debates. The editors are committed to a swift response to submitted articles and endeavour to ensure a 12-week turnaround time for each cycle of the review process. Aims and Scope Keywords IJMR provides an excellent outlet for review-based research and scholarship on management-related themes and topics. It publishes literature reviews, debate essays and review methodology pieces of a multi-disciplinary, interdisciplinary, and internationally significant nature, and which are committed to making a contribution to theoretical and conceptual debates and thoughtful scholarship. With authors and readers from around the world, the journal includes conceptual reviews and methodological articles across the full range of business and management disciplines, including: Accounting and Finance Business Economics Business Ethics Business History Entrepreneurship Equality, Diversity and Inclusion General Management Human Resource Management Innovation and Technology International Business Leadership Management Development Management Knowledge and Education Marketing Operations Management Organizational Behaviour Public Sector Management Research Methods Strategic Management Sustainability IJMR does not accept empirical papers. Empirical papers should be directed to the IJMR sister journal, BJM. Keywords abstracts, accounting, analysis, bibliometric, business, capital, conceptual, entrepreneur, ethics, global, human, integrative, international, journal, literature, management, marketing, markets, meta-analytic, methodology, mission, narrative, research, resources, reviews, strategy, systema
From the journal's Aims & Scope
Research area (LetPub): Multiple
Editor-in-chief Ashish MalikPublisher website
Editorial board by country: 1 in mainland China (about 1%); most named United Kingdom 39, Italy 12, United States 10, Australia 7, Germany 4 (109 members with a country) Editorial board ↗Publisher website ·
Main research topics OpenAlex counts of recent articles; shares are approximate
- Innovation and Knowledge ManagementBusiness, Management and Accounting14.7%
- Management and Organizational StudiesBusiness, Management and Accounting13.8%
- Entrepreneurship Studies and InfluencesBusiness, Management and Accounting6.3%
- Job Satisfaction and Organizational BehaviorBusiness, Management and Accounting5.9%
- Corporate Finance and GovernanceBusiness, Management and Accounting5.2%
- Accounting and Organizational ManagementBusiness, Management and Accounting5.2%
- Gender Diversity and InequalitySocial Sciences4.2%
- Corporate Social Responsibility ReportingBusiness, Management and Accounting4.1%
Rankings & indexing
CAS ranking and database indexing
CAS Journal Ranking
CAS Journal Ranking, upgraded edition (March 2025)Management Zone 2
| Level | Category | Zone |
|---|---|---|
| Major | Management | Zone 2 |
| Minor | Business | Zone 2 |
| Minor | Management | Zone 2 |
Top journal: noReview journal: yes
CAS Xinrui Journal Ranking (March 2026)Management Zone 1
| Level | Category | Zone |
|---|---|---|
| Major | Management | Zone 1 |
| Minor | Business | Zone 1 |
| Minor | Management | Zone 1 |
Top journal: yesReview journal: not marked
CAS Journal Ranking, previous upgraded edition (December 2023)Management Zone 1
| Level | Category | Zone |
|---|---|---|
| Major | Management | Zone 1 |
| Minor | Business | Zone 2 |
| Minor | Management | Zone 2 |
Top journal: noReview journal: yes
Database indexing
SSCIScopusLetPub
International journal early-warning lists: not listed in any editionLetPub
Indexing the journal's website claims
PsycINFOCurrent ContentsPublisher website
Other: ProQuest
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
- 13.27LetPub ·
- Impact factor (publisher)
- 13.4Publisher website ·
- Impact factor (publisher) 2025
- 13.4Publisher website ·
- 5-year impact factor (publisher)
- 13.8Publisher website ·
- CiteScore 2026-06
- 24.1LetPub ·
- CiteScore (publisher)
- 24.1Publisher website ·
- CiteScore (publisher) 2025
- 24.1Publisher website ·
- SJR 2026-06
- 4.08LetPub ·
- SNIP 2026-06
- 4.09LetPub ·
- h-index
- 181OpenAlex ·
- i10-index
- 584OpenAlex ·
- 2-year mean citedness
- 11.42OpenAlex ·
- Self-citation rate
- 3%LetPub ·
- Share of gold OA articles
- 77.63%LetPub ·
Volume
- Articles per year
- 20LetPub ·
- Articles per year (publisher) 2025
- 20Publisher website ·
- Downloads per year (publisher) 2025
- 847,687Publisher website ·
Articles by year OpenAlex count · 844 in total · the current year is incomplete
| Year | Articles | Open access | Citations |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2026 | 32 | 23 | 10 |
| 2025 | 30 | 22 | 184 |
| 2024 | 37 | 29 | 937 |
| 2023 | 39 | 32 | 1,511 |
| 2022 | 44 | 33 | 2,214 |
| 2021 | 44 | 29 | 2,224 |
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
626 daysMedian, submission to acceptance · P25–P75 434 days – 763 days
- Acceptance to online
- median 20 days (52 articles)
- Submission to online
- median 656 days
- Sample
- 52 articles with submission and acceptance dates (68 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)
- 3%Publisher website ·
- Acceptance rate (publisher) 2025
- 3%Publisher website ·
- Submission to first decision
- 13 daysPublisher website ·
- Submission to first decision 2025
- 13 daysPublisher website ·
- Submission to acceptance 2025
- 582 daysPublisher website ·
- Acceptance to publication 2025
- 17 daysPublisher website ·
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 4,220 / EUR 3,520 / GBP 2,810 | — | — |
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)
Article types accepted3
- debate essaysDebate Essays will be reviewed by the Editors-in-Chief.Length not stated
- methodology articlesStandard Review articles and Methodology articles, following successful screening by an Editor-in-Chief, will normally be reviewed by a minimum of three externa…Length not stated
- standard review articlesStandard Review articles and Methodology articles, following successful screening by an Editor-in-Chief, will normally be reviewed by a minimum of three externa…Length not stated
Policy excerpts from the journal's websiteAuthorship, Publication ethics, Open access, Peer review, Preprints
- Authorship
Author name change policy allows post-publication name changes with privacy protection. Model summary
In cases where authors wish to change their name following publication, Wiley will update and republish the paper and redeliver the updated metadata to indexing services.
Source ↗Publisher website ·- Publication ethics
An appeal policy for editorial decisions exists. Model summary
For more details on the appeal policy, please click here.
Source ↗Publisher website ·- Open access Open Access
This journal is a Subscription journal that offers an open access option. You’ll have the option to choose to make your article open access after acceptance, which will be subject to an APC. You can read more about APCs and whether you may be eligible for waivers or discounts, through your institution, funder, or a country waiver.
Source ↗Publisher website ·- Peer review Review Process:
Standard Review articles and Methodology articles, following successful screening by an Editor-in-Chief, will normally be reviewed by a minimum of three external reviewers and an Associate Editor. Debate Essays will be reviewed by the Editors-in-Chief. The final decision to accept a paper for publication rests with the Editors. The Editorial Board will endeavour to ensure authors are informed of a…
Source ↗Publisher website ·- Preprints Preprints
Preprints are accepted for review and authors may post submitted versions to preprint servers. Model summary
This journal will consider for review articles previously available as preprints. Authors may also post the submitted version of a manuscript to a preprint server at any time. Authors are requested to update any pre-publication versions with a link to the final published article. Please find the Wiley preprint policy here.
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
- 1460-8545
- Electronic ISSN
- 1468-2370
- Society / sponsor
- British Academy of Management
- Latest issue on the website
- Volume 28, Issue 3 (July 2026)
- Official links
- Journal homepage ↗OpenAlex
- Submission system ↗Publisher website
- Special issues ↗Publisher website
FAQ
Frequently asked questions about International Journal of Management Reviews
What CAS zone is International Journal of Management Reviews in?
In the 2025 upgraded edition of the CAS Journal Ranking, International Journal of Management Reviews is in Zone 2 of Management, and in Zone 2 of the minor category Business / Management. In the 2026 Xinrui edition it is in Zone 1 of Management. Zones from different editions, and from major and minor categories, are not interchangeable.
What is the impact factor of International Journal of Management Reviews?
The latest impact factor listed by LetPub is 13.27; CiteScore 24.1, h-index 181.
How long does peer review take at International Journal of Management Reviews?
Based on the dates recorded on 52 articles published between October 2024 and October 2026 (the last 24 months), the median time from submission to acceptance is 626 days (interquartile range 434–763 days); the journal's website gives an acceptance rate of 3% (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.
Where are the editorial board members of International Journal of Management Reviews based?
Of the 109 board members whose country the journal's board page names, 1 (about 1%) are in mainland China; the countries named most often are United Kingdom (39), Italy (12) and United States (10). Counted from the institutions listed on the board page; for reference only.
Which databases index International Journal of Management Reviews?
According to LetPub and DOAJ records, International Journal of Management Reviews is indexed in SSCI and Scopus. The journal's website also lists PsycINFO and Current Contents; that list has not been checked against each database.
Is International Journal of Management Reviews open access, and what is the APC?
International Journal of Management Reviews is a hybrid journal. For open-access publication: APC about USD 4,220.
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 2026-08-26). Last updated: .