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Journal of Business and Psychology
ISSN 0889-3268 · eISSN 1573-353X · Springer Nature · 6 issues per year
Journal of Business and Psychology: CAS Zone 2 · Psychology (2025 upgraded edition); impact factor 4.68; hybrid open access; APC about USD 3,090; median 344 days to acceptance (51 articles, last 24 months); 94 articles in 2025; indexed in SSCI and Scopus.
Scope
Aims, scope and focus
Journal of Business and Psychology is published by Springer Nature and is in Zone 2 of Psychology in the CAS Journal Ranking (2025 upgraded edition). By OpenAlex counts of its recent articles, its largest topics are Job Satisfaction and Organizational Behavior, Gender Diversity and Inequality and Personality Traits and Psychology, together about 39.2% of its articles. Its main subfields are Organizational Behavior and Human Resource Management. (generated from OpenAlex topic counts and CAS ranking data)
The Journal of Business and Psychology (JBP) is an international outlet publishing high quality research designed to advance organizational science and practice. Since its inception in 1986, the journal has published impactful scholarship in Industrial/Organizational Psychology, Organizational Behavior, Human Resources Management, Work Psychology, Occupational Psychology, and Vocational Psychology. Typical subject matters include Team processes and effectiveness Customer service and satisfaction Employee recruitment, selection, and promotion Employee engagement and withdrawal Organizational culture and climate Training, development and coaching Mentoring and socialization Performance management, appraisal and feedback Workplace diversity Leadership Workplace health, stress, and safety Employee attitudes and satisfaction Careers and retirement Organizational communication Technology and work Employee motivation and job design Organizational change and development Employee citizenship and deviance Organizational effectiveness Work-nonwork/work-family Rigorous quantitative, qualitative, field-based, and lab-based empirical studies are welcome. Interdisciplinary scholarship is valued and encouraged. Submitted manuscripts should be well-grounded conceptually and make meaningful contributions to scientific understandings and/or the advancement of science-based practice. Literature reviews and non-empirical submissions are not typically reviewed. The Journal of Business and Psychology is A high quality/impactful outlet for organizational science research A journal dedicated to bridging the science/practice divide A journal striving to create interdisciplinary connections For details on submitting manuscripts, please read the author guidelines found in the far right menu.
From the journal's Aims & Scope
Research area (LetPub): Multiple
Editor-in-chief Eden B. KingPublisher website
Editorial board by country: 3 in mainland China (about 1%); most named United States 367, Canada 48, Germany 17, Netherlands 14, Australia 12 (517 members with a country) Editorial board ↗Publisher website ·
Main research topics OpenAlex counts of recent articles; shares are approximate
- Job Satisfaction and Organizational BehaviorBusiness, Management and Accounting26.9%
- Gender Diversity and InequalitySocial Sciences6.3%
- Personality Traits and PsychologyPsychology6%
- Social and Intergroup PsychologySocial Sciences5.8%
- Work-Family Balance ChallengesSocial Sciences5.1%
- Customer Service Quality and LoyaltyBusiness, Management and Accounting4.8%
- Employer Branding and e-HRMBusiness, Management and Accounting4.1%
- Employment and Welfare StudiesHealth Professions3.4%
Rankings & indexing
CAS ranking and database indexing
CAS Journal Ranking
CAS Journal Ranking, upgraded edition (March 2025)Psychology Zone 2
| Level | Category | Zone |
|---|---|---|
| Major | Psychology | Zone 2 |
| Minor | Psychology, Applied | Zone 2 |
| Minor | Business | Zone 3 |
Top journal: noReview journal: no
CAS Xinrui Journal Ranking (March 2026)Psychology Zone 1
| Level | Category | Zone |
|---|---|---|
| Major | Psychology | Zone 1 |
| Minor | Business | Zone 2 |
| Minor | Psychology, Applied | Zone 1 |
Top journal: yesReview journal: not marked
CAS Journal Ranking, previous upgraded edition (December 2023)Psychology Zone 2
| Level | Category | Zone |
|---|---|---|
| Major | Psychology | Zone 2 |
| Minor | Psychology, Applied | Zone 2 |
| Minor | Business | Zone 3 |
Top journal: noReview journal: no
Database indexing
SSCIScopusLetPub
International journal early-warning lists: not listed in any editionLetPub
Indexing the journal's website claims
SCIEPsycINFOCurrent ContentsPublisher website
Other: Google Scholar, EBSCO, ProQuest, Dimensions, CNKI, Baidu, Naver, OCLC, Portico, CLOCKSS
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
- 4.68LetPub ·
- Impact factor (publisher) 2025
- 4.8Publisher website ·
- 5-year impact factor (publisher) 2025
- 6.4Publisher website ·
- CiteScore 2026-06
- 10.6LetPub ·
- SJR 2026-06
- 2.56LetPub ·
- SNIP 2026-06
- 2.51LetPub ·
- h-index
- 142OpenAlex ·
- i10-index
- 1,285OpenAlex ·
- 2-year mean citedness
- 4.76OpenAlex ·
- Self-citation rate
- 4.2%LetPub ·
- Share of gold OA articles
- 40.38%LetPub ·
Volume
- Articles per year
- 89LetPub ·
- Downloads per year (publisher) 2025
- 873,000Publisher website ·
Articles by year OpenAlex count · 1,807 in total · the current year is incomplete
| Year | Articles | Open access | Citations |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2026 | 57 | 34 | 20 |
| 2025 | 94 | 63 | 304 |
| 2024 | 76 | 48 | 757 |
| 2023 | 56 | 29 | 1,068 |
| 2022 | 85 | 49 | 2,448 |
| 2021 | 54 | 28 | 1,314 |
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
344 daysMedian, submission to acceptance · P25–P75 260 days – 434 days
- Acceptance to online
- median 19 days (102 articles)
- Submission to online
- median 373 days
- Sample
- 51 articles with submission and acceptance dates (164 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
- Submission to first decision
- 4 daysPublisher website ·
- Peer review
- Double anonymous peer reviewPublisher 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 3,090 / EUR 2,490 / GBP 2,190 | — | — |
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 prepare6 items from the author guidelines
- Abstract
- 175–250 words
- Manuscript length
- ≤ 8,000 words
- Reference style
- APA
- Suggested reviewers
- Optional
- Cover letter
- Required
- Not considered
- salami-slicing
Policy excerpts from the journal's websiteAuthorship, Conflicts of interest, Data availability, Publication ethics, License & copyright, Open access, Peer review, Trial registration / reporting guidelines
- Authorship Authorship principles
These guidelines describe authorship principles and good authorship practices to which prospective authors should adhere to. Authorship clarified The Journal and Publisher assume all authors agreed with the content and that all gave explicit consent to submit and that they obtained consent from the responsible authorities at the institute/organization where the work has been carried out, before th…
Source ↗Publisher website ·- Conflicts of interest Disclosures and declarations
All authors are requested to include information regarding sources of funding, financial or non-financial interests, study-specific approval by the appropriate ethics committee for research involving humans and/or animals, informed consent if the research involved human participants, and a statement on welfare of animals if the research involved animals (as appropriate). The decision whether such …
Source ↗Publisher website ·- Data availability Data Sharing and Materials Transparency
To foster transparency, if not already in the paper, state the availability of your research items, including data, research materials, analytic code, and any preregistration with analysis plans in your manuscript and cover letter. Authors are encouraged to put measures, analysis code, procedures and/or data in our online repository (https://osf.io/collections/jbp/discover) once the article is acc…
Source ↗Publisher website ·- Publication ethics Compliance with Ethical Standards
To ensure objectivity and transparency in research and to ensure that accepted principles of ethical and professional conduct have been followed, authors should include information regarding sources of funding, potential conflicts of interest (financial or non-financial), informed consent if the research involved human participants, and a statement on welfare of animals if the research involved an…
Source ↗Publisher website ·- License & copyright Originality of Work and Copyright
Submission of a manuscript assumes that the paper is original to the authors; that it has not been published before; that it is not under consideration for publication anywhere else; that its publication has been approved by all co-authors, if any, as well as by the responsible authorities – tacitly or explicitly – at the institute where the work has been carried out. The publisher will not be hel…
Source ↗Publisher website ·- Open access Open access publishing
To find out more about publishing your work Open Access in Journal of Business and Psychology, including information on fees, funding and licences, visit our Open access publishing page. Back to top
Source ↗Publisher website ·- Peer review Results-masked or Registered Report Review Process
Welcomes registered reports submissions and has a results-masked review initiative. Model summary
As organizational scientists, we should be striving to produce useful and replicable research.
Source ↗Publisher website ·- Trial registration / reporting guidelines Reporting Guidelines
Authors are encouraged to follow the reporting guidelines for psychological research set by the APA JARS standards for quantitative or qualitative studies.
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
- Springer Nature
- Frequency
- 6 issues per year
- ISSN
- 0889-3268
- Electronic ISSN
- 1573-353X
- Latest issue on the website
- Volume 41, Issue 4 (August 2026)
- Official links
- Journal homepage ↗OpenAlex
- Submission system ↗LetPub
- Author guidelines ↗LetPub
- Special issues ↗Publisher website
FAQ
Frequently asked questions about Journal of Business and Psychology
What CAS zone is Journal of Business and Psychology in?
In the 2025 upgraded edition of the CAS Journal Ranking, Journal of Business and Psychology is in Zone 2 of Psychology, and in Zone 2 of the minor category Psychology, Applied / Business. In the 2026 Xinrui edition it is in Zone 1 of Psychology. Zones from different editions, and from major and minor categories, are not interchangeable.
What is the impact factor of Journal of Business and Psychology?
The latest impact factor listed by LetPub is 4.68; CiteScore 10.6, h-index 142.
How long does peer review take at Journal of Business and Psychology?
Based on the dates recorded on 51 articles published between October 2024 and October 2026 (the last 24 months), the median time from submission to acceptance is 344 days (interquartile range 260–434 days). 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 Journal of Business and Psychology?
According to the journal's author guidelines: Abstract: 175–250 words; Manuscript length: ≤ 8,000 words; Reference style: APA; Suggested reviewers: 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.
Where are the editorial board members of Journal of Business and Psychology based?
Of the 517 board members whose country the journal's board page names, 3 (about 1%) are in mainland China; the countries named most often are United States (367), Canada (48) and Germany (17). Counted from the institutions listed on the board page; for reference only.
Which databases index Journal of Business and Psychology?
According to LetPub and DOAJ records, Journal of Business and Psychology is indexed in SSCI and Scopus. The journal's website also lists SCIE, PsycINFO and Current Contents; that list has not been checked against each database.
Is Journal of Business and Psychology open access, and what is the APC?
Journal of Business and Psychology is a hybrid journal. For open-access publication: APC about USD 3,090.
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: .