Journal of Professions and Organization

Journal of Professions and Organization is published by Oxford University Press and 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 Management and Organizational Studies, Public Policy and Administration Research and Accounting and Organizational Management, together about 44.5% of its articles. (generated from OpenAlex topic counts and CAS ranking data)

Journal of Professions and Organization Journal of Professions and Organization (JPO) is the premier outlet for research on professional organizations, including their work, management and their broader social and economic role. Whereas the focus will be on the organizational level, we maintain a broad interest in professionals, the professions, professionalization, professional practice and relevant work-place issues. We are particularly receptive to interdisciplinary perspectives and contributions, with strong interests in all professional organizations, professional service firms (PSFs), and public sector professionals (PSPs). While recognizing the importance of traditional professions, we welcome work on new professions, occupations claiming some professional status, and on knowledge workers more generally. JPO is a catalyst for top quality scholarly research concerning professionals and their organizations. We aim to connect to a number of important theoretical as well as organizational and managerial developments that are emerging in this field. Current theoretical advances are building on institutional theory, and the sociology of organizations and markets. JPO is a leading venue for these theoretical advances as they apply to professional organizations, PSFs and PSPs. Further, there is a strong emphasis on developments in managerial practices and organizational forms relevant to these contexts. And, importantly, JPO strives for a better understanding of the crucial role of professional organizations and occupations in the wider economic and social order. A critical objective of JPO is to leverage the network of international scholars in sociology, management, psychology, geography as well as economics and business history in order to advance research in the broader field of expert or knowledge-based work. This broad perspective enables us to bring together scholars from very diverse disciplines to engage in broad debates and foster a multidisciplinary research agenda. This makes JPO unique and puts it at the forefront of the development towards more integrative and multidisciplinary research in this field. JPO publishes papers of various methodologies and approaches: conceptual, theory building, meta-analytical, and empirical. Recognizing the multi-disciplinary character of this area, submissions may draw on history, geography, political theory, sociology, economics and management thinking. Given the extremely fluid state of the field, we are also

From the journal's Aims & Scope

Research area (LetPub): MANAGEMENT

Editor-in-chief Ronit DinovitzerPublisher website

Editorial board by country: none in mainland China; most named United Kingdom 30, Canada 5, Netherlands 4, Australia 3, Denmark 3 (56 members with a country) Editorial board ↗Publisher website · 2026-10-01

CAS Journal Ranking

Database indexing

ESCIScopusLetPub

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

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Impact

Impact factor (publisher) 2025

4.1Publisher website · 2026-10-01

5-year impact factor (publisher) 2025

2.3Publisher website · 2026-10-01

CiteScore 2026-06

4.1LetPub · 2026-09-13

CiteScore (publisher) 2025

4.1Publisher website · 2026-10-01

SJR 2026-06

0.89LetPub · 2026-09-13

SNIP 2026-06

1.24LetPub · 2026-09-13

h-index

35OpenAlex · 2026-10-01

i10-index

114OpenAlex · 2026-10-01

2-year mean citedness

1.53OpenAlex · 2026-10-01

Self-citation rate

15.4%LetPub · 2026-09-13

Share of gold OA articles

46.3%LetPub · 2026-09-13

Volume

Articles per year

8LetPub · 2026-09-13

Downloads per year (publisher) 2025

51,357Publisher 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.

Figures by source

Submission to first decision 2025

5 daysPublisher website · 2026-10-01

Submission to final decision 2025

5 daysPublisher website · 2026-10-01

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A hybrid journal charges the APC only when the author chooses open access; publishing under the subscription model is usually free.

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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

Oxford University Press

ISSN

2051-8803

Electronic ISSN

2051-8811

Latest issue on the website

Volume 13, Issue 3 (October 2026)

Official links

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