Journal of Business Logistics

Journal of Business Logistics 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 Quality and Supply Management, Outsourcing and Supply Chain Management and Supply Chain Resilience and Risk Management, together about 46.4% of its articles. Its main subfields are Management Information Systems and Strategy and Management. (generated from OpenAlex topic counts and CAS ranking data)

Submissions to the JBL should align with the following expectations: Theoretical contribution: Manuscripts should build, test, refine, or apply theory in ways that advance understanding of supply chain phenomena. Theoretical contributions may take multiple forms but should be clearly articulated and tied to the research question and findings. Empirical methods: JBL is an empirical journal. Any quantitative, qualitative, or mixed-method empirical approach is welcome as long as the method fits the research question and the execution meets disciplinary standards. Conceptual research: Conceptual and theory-building manuscripts are appropriate when they sharpen understanding of supply chain processes, mechanisms, or outcomes. Provide supply chain utility: JBL publishes research that advances understanding of how supply chains create and deliver utility (i.e. time, place, form, possession) for customers. Manuscripts should make clear which utility mechanisms are being examined and why they matter. Performance attributes in supply chain context: Research examining efficiency, effectiveness, resilience, or sustainability should do so in ways that illuminate how supply chains create and deliver utility. Studies that pursue these attributes in isolation, without a clear supply chain mechanism or utility linkage, are outside the journal's scope. End-to-end domain, not end-to-end coverage: Research may examine any activities within core supply chain activities of sourcing, operations, and logistics. Studies are not expected to span an entire supply chain, but they should be clearly situated within it. Supply chain contribution: Supply chain content must be substantive rather than incidental. If supply chain is simply the context and the primary contribution is fundamentally about something else, the manuscript is outside the journal's scope. Rigor and fit: Methods should serve the conceptual end. The core test is alignment among the research question, the theoretically grounded causal logic, and empirical evidence. Relevance grounded in real problems: JBL values research grounded in real supply chain challenges, with implications that meaningfully inform decision making. Resonance as an evaluation criterion: Beyond rigor and relevance, JBL values research with staying power. Authors are encouraged to write with resonance in mind by emphasizing recognizability, controllability, generativity, and memorability for at least one primary audience.

From the journal's Aims & Scope

Research area (LetPub): MANAGEMENT

Editorial board by country: 1 in mainland China (about 0%); most named United States 161, Germany 14, United Kingdom 13, Sweden 10, Italy 8 (253 members with a country) Editorial board ↗Publisher website · 2026-10-01

CAS Journal Ranking

Database indexing

SSCIScopusLetPub

International journal early-warning lists: not listed in any editionLetPub

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Web of ScienceINSPECCurrent ContentsPublisher website

Other: ProQuest

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Impact

Impact factor

10.45LetPub · 2026-09-13

Impact factor (publisher) 2025

10.7Publisher website · 2026-10-01

CiteScore 2026-06

14.3LetPub · 2026-09-13

CiteScore (publisher) 2025

14.3Publisher website · 2026-10-01

SJR 2026-06

2.57LetPub · 2026-09-13

SNIP 2026-06

2.4LetPub · 2026-09-13

h-index

138OpenAlex · 2026-10-01

i10-index

752OpenAlex · 2026-10-01

2-year mean citedness

5.88OpenAlex · 2026-10-01

Self-citation rate

22.4%LetPub · 2026-09-13

Share of gold OA articles

52.34%LetPub · 2026-09-13

Volume

Articles per year

45LetPub · 2026-09-13

Articles per year (publisher) 2025

49Publisher website · 2026-10-01

Downloads per year (publisher) 2025

327,276Publisher website · 2026-10-01

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.

Other sources

Acceptance rate (publisher) 2025

6%Publisher website · 2026-10-01

Submission to first decision 2025

21 daysPublisher website · 2026-10-01

Submission to acceptance 2025

347 daysPublisher website · 2026-10-01

Acceptance to publication 2025

35 daysPublisher website · 2026-10-01

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.

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.

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.

Publisher

Wiley-Blackwell

ISSN

0735-3766

Electronic ISSN

2158-1592

Latest issue on the website

Volume 47, Issue 4 (October 2026)

Official links

• Journal homepage ↗OpenAlex
• Submission system ↗Publisher website
• Special issues ↗Publisher website