Journal profile · BUSINESS, FINANCE
Journal of Revenue and Pricing Management
ISSN 1476-6930 · eISSN 1477-657X · Springer Nature · 6 issues per year
Journal of Revenue and Pricing Management: CAS Zone 4 · Management (2025 upgraded edition); impact factor 1.6 (journal website); hybrid open access; APC about USD 3,190; median 125 days to acceptance (88 articles, last 24 months); 56 articles in 2025; indexed in ESCI and Scopus.
Scope
Aims, scope and focus
Journal of Revenue and Pricing Management is published by Springer Nature 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 Consumer Market Behavior and Pricing, Supply Chain and Inventory Management and Aviation Industry Analysis and Trends, together about 50.1% of its articles. Its main subfields are Management Science and Operations Research. (generated from OpenAlex topic counts and CAS ranking data)
The Journal of Revenue and Pricing Management serves the community of researchers and practitioners dedicated to improving understanding through insight and real life situations. Each article emphasizes meaningful answers to problems whether cutting edge science or real solutions. The journal places an emphasis disseminating the best articles from the best minds and benchmarked businesses within the field of Revenue Management and Pricing. Revenue management (RM), also known as Yield Management (YM), is a management activity that marries the diverse disciplines of operations research/management science, analytics, economics, human resource management, software development, marketing, economics, e-commerce, consumer behaviour and consulting to manage demand for a firm's products or services with the goal of profit maximisation. From a practitioner standpoint, RM encompasses a range of activities related to demand management, including pricing, segmentation, capacity and inventory allocation, demand modelling and business process management. Journal of Revenue and Pricing Management aims to: formulate and disseminate a body of knowledge called 'RM and pricing' to practitioners, educators, researchers and students; provide an international forum for a wide range of practical, theoretical and applied research in the fields of RM and pricing; represent a multi-disciplinary set of views on key and emerging issues in RM and pricing; include a cross-section of methodologies and viewpoints on research, including quantitative and qualitative approaches, case studies, and empirical and theoretical studies; encourage greater understanding and linkage between the fields of study related to revenue management and pricing; to publish new and original ideas on research, policy and management encourage and engage with professional communities to adopt the Journal as the place of knowledge excellence i.e., INFORMS Revenue Management & Pricing section, AGIFORS and Revenue Management Society and Revenue Management and Pricing International Ltd. Published six times a year, Journal of Revenue and Pricing Management publishes a wide range of peer-reviewed practice papers, research articles and professional briefings written by industry experts - including: Practice papers - addressing the issues facing practitioners in industry and consultancy Applied research papers - from leading institutions on all areas of research of interest to practitioners, and the implications for pract
From the journal's Aims & Scope
Research area (LetPub): BUSINESS, FINANCE
Editorial board by country: none in mainland China; most named United States 22, United Kingdom 5, Germany 3, Sweden 3, Greece 3 (53 members with a country) Editorial board ↗Publisher website ·
Main research topics OpenAlex counts of recent articles; shares are approximate
- Consumer Market Behavior and PricingBusiness, Management and Accounting21.7%
- Supply Chain and Inventory ManagementBusiness, Management and Accounting20.4%
- Aviation Industry Analysis and TrendsEconomics, Econometrics and Finance8.1%
- Consumer Retail Behavior StudiesBusiness, Management and Accounting5.4%
- Auction Theory and ApplicationsDecision Sciences4.9%
- Digital Platforms and EconomicsBusiness, Management and Accounting3.5%
- Forecasting Techniques and ApplicationsDecision Sciences3%
- Transportation and Mobility InnovationsEngineering2.7%
Rankings & indexing
CAS ranking and database indexing
CAS Journal Ranking
CAS Journal Ranking, upgraded edition (March 2025)Management Zone 4
| Level | Category | Zone |
|---|---|---|
| Major | Management | Zone 4 |
| Minor | Business, Finance | Zone 4 |
Top journal: noReview journal: no
CAS Xinrui Journal Ranking (March 2026)Management Zone 4
| Level | Category | Zone |
|---|---|---|
| Major | Management | Zone 4 |
| Minor | Business, Finance | Zone 4 |
Top journal: noReview journal: not marked
CAS Journal Ranking, previous upgraded edition (December 2023)Not covered
Not covered by this edition.
Database indexing
ESCIScopusLetPub
International journal early-warning lists: not listed in any editionLetPub
Indexing the journal's website claims
Google Scholar, EBSCO, ProQuest, Dimensions, CNKI, Baidu, Naver, OCLC, Portico, CLOCKSSPublisher website
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 (publisher) 2025
- 1.6Publisher website ·
- 5-year impact factor (publisher) 2025
- 1.4Publisher website ·
- CiteScore 2026-06
- 3.5LetPub ·
- SJR 2026-06
- 0.26LetPub ·
- SNIP 2026-06
- 0.77LetPub ·
- h-index
- 56OpenAlex ·
- i10-index
- 433OpenAlex ·
- 2-year mean citedness
- 1.77OpenAlex ·
- Self-citation rate
- 37.5%LetPub ·
- Share of gold OA articles
- 15.87%LetPub ·
Volume
- Articles per year
- 46LetPub ·
- Downloads per year (publisher) 2025
- 181,400Publisher website ·
Articles by year OpenAlex count · 1,290 in total · the current year is incomplete
| Year | Articles | Open access | Citations |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2026 | 63 | 10 | 23 |
| 2025 | 56 | 13 | 110 |
| 2024 | 53 | 22 | 171 |
| 2023 | 47 | 21 | 198 |
| 2022 | 42 | 22 | 285 |
| 2021 | 102 | 40 | 920 |
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
125 daysMedian, submission to acceptance · P25–P75 85 days – 203 days
- Acceptance to online
- median 19 days (96 articles)
- Submission to online
- median 145 days
- Sample
- 88 articles with submission and acceptance dates (129 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
- 9 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 3,190 / EUR 2,590 / GBP 2,290 | — | — |
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 prepare9 items from the author guidelines
- Abstract
- ≤ 100 words
- Keywords
- ≤ 6
- Manuscript length
- ≤ 6,000 words
- Reference style
- Chicago
- First submission
- Free format: the journal's layout is not required
- Suggested reviewers
- Optional
- Highlights
- Optional
- Graphical abstract
- Optional
- Cover letter
- Required
Article types accepted3, with length limits
- commentaryogress. The 'Thoughts' section welcomes commentary of about 1000 words focused on topical issues, emerging trends and interestingmain text ≤ 1,000 words
- research paperon and Formatting Format of submissions Research papers should normally be between 4000 to 6000 words with at least twenty per cent of the content emphasizing t…main text ≤ 6,000 words
- reviewAuthors submitting papers for publication should specify which section of the Journal they wish their paper to be considered for: ‘Research Papers’ or ‘Practice…Length not stated
Policy excerpts from the journal's websitePublication ethics, License & copyright, Open access, Peer review, Plagiarism, Self-archiving
- Publication ethics
Member of COPE Model summary
This journal, via its publisher Palgrave Macmillan, is a member of the Committee on Publication Ethics (COPE).
Source ↗Publisher website ·- License & copyright Copyright and Permissions
Using third-party material in your articleAuthors are responsible for ensuring that any third-party material (e.g. figures, tables, photos, illustrations, trade literature, or data) is not used without permission. If such material is copyrighted, permission must be obtained and submitted with the final manuscript. The Editor and Publisher must be informed of any restricted-use content at submissio…
Source ↗Publisher website ·- Open access Open Access & Self Archiving
Self-archiving (green open access)Where articles are published via the subscription route, authors are permitted to self-archive the accepted manuscript (the version post-peer review, but prior to copy-editing and typesetting) on their own personal website and/or in their funder or institutional repositories, for public release after an embargo period of 12 months after first publication.Learn mor…
Source ↗Publisher website ·- Peer review
No submission fee Model summary
This journal does not charge for the submission of manuscripts to the journal.
Source ↗Publisher website ·- Plagiarism
iThenticate plagiarism screening Model summary
Manuscripts submitted to the journal are subject to checks using iThenticate to detect instances of overlapping and similar text.
Source ↗Publisher website ·- Self-archiving Open Access & Self Archiving
Self-archiving (green open access)Where articles are published via the subscription route, authors are permitted to self-archive the accepted manuscript (the version post-peer review, but prior to copy-editing and typesetting) on their own personal website and/or in their funder or institutional repositories, for public release after an embargo period of 12 months after first publication.Learn mor…
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
- 1476-6930
- Electronic ISSN
- 1477-657X
- Latest issue on the website
- Volume 25, Issue 4 (August 2026)
- Official links
- Journal homepage ↗OpenAlex
- Submission system ↗Publisher website
- Author guidelines ↗LetPub
- Special issues ↗Publisher website
FAQ
Frequently asked questions about Journal of Revenue and Pricing Management
What CAS zone is Journal of Revenue and Pricing Management in?
In the 2025 upgraded edition of the CAS Journal Ranking, Journal of Revenue and Pricing Management is in Zone 4 of Management, and in Zone 4 of the minor category Business, Finance. In the 2026 Xinrui edition it is in Zone 4 of Management. Zones from different editions, and from major and minor categories, are not interchangeable.
What is the impact factor of Journal of Revenue and Pricing Management?
The journal's website gives an impact factor of 1.6 (2025); this is the journal's own figure, as LetPub lists none for it; CiteScore 3.5, h-index 56.
How long does peer review take at Journal of Revenue and Pricing Management?
Based on the dates recorded on 88 articles published between October 2024 and October 2026 (the last 24 months), the median time from submission to acceptance is 125 days (interquartile range 85–203 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 Revenue and Pricing Management?
According to the journal's author guidelines: Abstract: ≤ 100 words; Keywords: ≤ 6; Manuscript length: ≤ 6,000 words; Reference style: Chicago; First submission: Free format: the journal's layout is not required; Suggested reviewers: Optional; Highlights: Optional; Graphical abstract: 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 Revenue and Pricing Management based?
Of the 53 board members whose country the journal's board page names, none are in mainland China; the countries named most often are United States (22), United Kingdom (5) and Germany (3). Counted from the institutions listed on the board page; for reference only.
Which databases index Journal of Revenue and Pricing Management?
According to LetPub and DOAJ records, Journal of Revenue and Pricing Management is indexed in ESCI and Scopus.
Is Journal of Revenue and Pricing Management open access, and what is the APC?
Journal of Revenue and Pricing Management is a hybrid journal. For open-access publication: APC about USD 3,190.
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: .