Negotiation and Conflict Management Research

Negotiation and Conflict Management Research is published by Wiley-Blackwell 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 Conflict Management and Negotiation, Social and Intergroup Psychology and Gender Diversity and Inequality, together about 43.7% of its articles. Its main subfields are Sociology and Political Science and Social Psychology. (generated from OpenAlex topic counts and CAS ranking data)

Negotiation and Conflict Management Research (NCMR) is the flagship journal of the International Association of Conflict Management (IACM). NCMR uses double-blind review and is dedicated to the promotion of rigorous, ethical, and impactful research on negotiation and conflict. NCMR welcomes quantitative research studies (e.g., experiments, surveys, content analyses), qualitative research studies (e.g., ethnographies, interviews), case studies, meta-analyses and comprehensive literature reviews, theoretical and conceptual papers, and replications. We publish interdisciplinary and international collaborations, as well as research by individual contributors focused on negotiation, conflict, and its management, and we welcome diverse perspectives and approaches to the study of these topics. We encourage research that aims to improve practice and pedagogy in the fields of negotiation and conflict management by providing insight into how to foster changes in perspectives and empathy, mitigate destructive conflict, and improve human living conditions through peace and justice. NCMR publishes articles that develop theory and report empirical research on negotiation and conflict management at multiple levels, including interpersonal, intergroup, organizational, societal, and international. Articles in NCMR explore a variety of processes for conflict management, engagement, and expression, including negotiation and various types of formal and informal third-party interventions. Articles in NCMR cover a range of domains and contexts, including environmental conflict, crisis negotiations, and political conflict, among many other settings in which people disagree. We aim to provide a quick turnaround for research and encourage work that addresses influential and timely societal events, as well as historical and perennial issues related to negotiation and conflict management. To facilitate rigorous, ethical, and transparent research practices consistent with open science, NCMR encourages authors to share their study materials, data, and statistical analyses and code when feasible in a public repository, such as the Open Science Framework (OSF.io), the Dataverse Project (dataverse.org), or another similar platform in which a persistent URL and doi link can be generated. Authors are also encouraged to include a data accessibility statement within their article where appropriate and follow appropriate data citation principles. All published articles are discoverable throug

From the journal's Aims & Scope

Research area (LetPub): Multiple

Editor-in-chief Remi SmolinskiPublisher website

Editorial board by country: none in mainland China; most named United States 5, Germany 2, France 1, Denmark 1 (9 members with a country) Editorial board ↗Publisher website · 2026-09-29

CAS Journal Ranking

Database indexing

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Impact

Impact factor

0.7LetPub · 2026-09-13

Impact factor (publisher)

1.26Publisher website · 2026-09-29

5-year impact factor (publisher)

1.56Publisher website · 2026-09-29

CiteScore 2026-06

1.2LetPub · 2026-09-13

CiteScore (publisher)

2.5Publisher website · 2026-09-29

SJR 2026-06

0.22LetPub · 2026-09-13

SJR (publisher)

0.65Publisher website · 2026-09-29

SNIP 2026-06

0.33LetPub · 2026-09-13

SNIP (publisher)

0.58Publisher website · 2026-09-29

h-index

40OpenAlex · 2026-10-01

i10-index

164OpenAlex · 2026-10-01

2-year mean citedness

0.26OpenAlex · 2026-10-01

Self-citation rate

28.6%LetPub · 2026-09-13

Share of gold OA articles

0%LetPub · 2026-09-13

Volume

Articles per year

15LetPub · 2026-09-13

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Peer review

Double anonymous peer reviewPublisher website

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Publisher

Wiley-Blackwell

ISSN

1750-4708

Electronic ISSN

1750-4716

Official links

• Journal homepage ↗OpenAlex
• Special issues ↗Publisher website