International Journal of Procurement Management

International Journal of Procurement Management is published by Inderscience Publishers. By OpenAlex counts of its recent articles, its largest topics are Sustainable Supply Chain Management, Quality and Supply Management and Public Procurement and Policy, together about 42.1% of its articles. Its main subfields are Management Information Systems and Management Science and Operations Research. (generated from OpenAlex topic counts and CAS ranking data)

Procurement/supply management strategies/systems, outsourcing Managing supplier development/innovation Purchasing/corporate strategy alignment Global procurement/supply development, selling consortiums [Supplier] performance measures/metrics/communication, benchmarking IT/IS, e.g ERP, RFID, e-procurement Environmental issues, green supply management, sustainable procurement Ethical standards, human resource management Cost models, evaluating costs/benefits Reengineering procurement processes Inventory/demand/project/risk management Public sector organisations, military establishments Modelling and analysis Procurement teams/organisation, agile procurement/supply systems Corporate social responsibility, supplier relationship protocols More on this journal... ObjectivesThe main objective of IJPM is to provide a platform for interaction between researchers and practitioners who are dealing with procurement function and supply management. The journal also promotes and coordinates developments in the field of procurement and supply management. Due attention will be given to procurement and supply management in both private and public sector organisations. The global dimension is emphasised with the objective of overcoming various cultural and political barriers and in turn to meet the needs of effective management of procurement and supply in the global market through appropriate technological and organisational changes. IJPM aims to provide the executives and academics with the state of the art of procurement and supply strategies, techniques and tools. Furthermore, the journal will facilitate the exchange of information about procurement and supply management among researchers and practitioners in the field of procurement and supply management. ReadershipIJPM acts as a vehicle to help professionals, practitioners, academics and researchers, working in the field of procurement and supply management, to disseminate information and latest developments and to learn from each other's research.ContentsIJPM publishes original papers, review papers, technical reports, case studies, conference reports, management reports, book reviews, notes, commentaries, and news. Special Issues devoted to important topics in procurement and supply management will occasionally be published.

From the journal's Aims & Scope

Research area (LetPub): Business, Management and Accounting-Business, Management and Accounting (all)

Editor-in-chief Angappa GunasekaranPublisher website

CAS Journal Ranking

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Database indexing

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Impact

CiteScore 2026-06

1.9LetPub · 2026-11-01

CiteScore (publisher) 2025

1.9Publisher website · 2026-11-01

SJR 2026-06

0.22LetPub · 2026-11-01

SNIP 2026-06

0.41LetPub · 2026-11-01

h-index

30OpenAlex · 2026-11-01

i10-index

201OpenAlex · 2026-11-01

2-year mean citedness

0.57OpenAlex · 2026-11-01

Share of gold OA articles

0%LetPub · 2026-11-01

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Double anonymous peer reviewPublisher website

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Publisher

Inderscience Publishers

ISSN

1753-8432

Electronic ISSN

1753-8440

Official links

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