iLovePhD presents you the list of top 20 journals in the field of Human Resources and Organizations based on Google Scholar citation score. This list would help the research scholars, academicians, researchers to publish the research papers in these high-impact factor journals. Human Resources and Organizations comes under the category “Business, Economics and Management”.
Top 20 Scopus Indexed Journals in Human Resources and Organizations
| Rank | Journal name | Scope of the journal | Impact factor | Journal Home Page |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Journal of Management | The Journal of Management welcomes empirical and theoretical articles dealing with micro, meso, and macro workplace phenomena. Manuscripts that are suitable for publication in the Journal of Management cover domains such as business strategy and policy, entrepreneurship, human resource management, organizational behavior, organizational theory, and research methods. | 8.080 | View |
| 2 | Academy of Management Journal | The mission Academy of Management Journal is to publish empirical research that tests, extends, or builds management theory and contributes to management practice. All empirical methods including, but not limited to, qualitative, quantitative, field, laboratory, meta-analytic, and mixed methods are welcome. To be published in AMJ, the research must make strong empirical and theoretical contributions and the manuscript should highlight the relevance of those contributions to management practice. Authors should strive to produce original, insightful, interesting, important, and theoretically bold research that demonstrates a significant “value-added” contribution to the field’s understanding of an issue or topic. | 10.194 | View |
| 3 | International Journal of Project Management | The International Journal of Project Management is the leading journal for the field of project management and organization studies. Its mission is to publish leading-edge innovative research that significantly advances the field of project management and organizing. Published eight times a year it presents new knowledge on areas such as managing projects, programs and portfolios, project-based/oriented organizations, project networks, and project-oriented societies. It is dedicated to project management and organizing from the perspectives of organizational behavior, strategy, change, and innovation. | 7.172 | View |
| 4 | The Leadership Quarterly | The Leadership Quarterly is a social-science journal dedicated to advancing our understanding of leadership as a phenomenon, how to study it, as well as its practical implications. The journal seeks contributions from various disciplinary perspectives, including psychology broadly defined (i.e., industrial-organizational, social, evolutionary, biological, differential), management (i.e., organizational behavior, strategy, organizational theory), political science, sociology, economics (i.e., personnel, behavioral, labor), anthropology, history, and methodology. Equally desirable are contributions from multidisciplinary perspectives. | 10.517 | View |
| 5 | Journal of Knowledge Management | Journal of Knowledge Management is a peer-reviewed publication dedicated to the exchange of the latest academic research and practical information on all aspects of managing knowledge in a wide range of organizations. The journal publishes innovative, rigorous, and original research and studies by academic, business, and government contributors on strategies, tools, techniques, and technologies for Knowledge Management. | 2.053 | View |
| 6 | Journal of Organizational Behavior | The Journal of Organizational Behavior aims to publish empirical reports and theoretical reviews of research in the field of organizational behavior, wherever in the world that work is conducted. The journal will focus on research and theory in all topics associated with organizational behavior within and across the individual, group, and organizational levels of analysis | 8.174 | View |
| 7 | Academy of Management Review | The mission of the Academy of Management Review is to publish theoretical insights that advance our understanding of management and organizations. Submissions to AMR must extend theory in ways that develop testable knowledge-based claims. To do this, researchers can develop new management and organization theory, significantly challenge or clarify existing theory, synthesize recent advances and ideas into fresh, if not entirely new theory, or initiate a search for new theory by identifying and delineating a novel theoretical problem. The contributions of AMR articles often are grounded in “normal science disciplines” of economics, psychology, sociology, or social psychology as well as non-traditional perspectives, such as the humanities. | 12.638 | View |
| 8 | Journal of Vocational Behavior | The Journal of Vocational Behavior publishes original empirical and theoretical articles that contribute novel insights to the fields of career choice, career development, and work adjustment across the lifespan and which are also valuable for applications in counseling and career development programs in colleges and universities, business and industry, government, and the military. | 6.065 | View |
| 9 | The International Journal of Human Resource Management | The International Journal of Human Resource Management (IJHRM) is the forum for human resource management (HRM) scholars and professionals worldwide. IJHRM welcomes papers that are based in any discipline – for example, organizational behavior, occupational psychology or labor economics – as long as there is a clear link to the HRM literature and that they develop strong implications for HR practice. | 3.795 | View |
| 10 | Academy of Management Annals | The mission of the Academy of Management Annals is to publish up-to-date, in-depth, and integrative reviews of research advances in management. Often called “reviews with an attitude,” Annals papers summarize and/or challenge established assumptions and concepts, pinpoint problems and factual errors, inspire discussions, and illuminate possible avenues for further study. Reviews published in Annals move above and beyond descriptions of the field – they motivate conceptual integration and set agendas for future research. | 16.438 | View |
| 11 | Journal of Labor Economics | The Journal of Labor Economics (JOLE) presents international research on issues affecting social and private behavior and the economy. JOLE’s contributors investigate various aspects of labor economics, including supply and demand of labor services, personnel economics, distribution of income, unions and collective bargaining, applied and policy issues in labor economics, and labor markets and demographics. | 4.119 | View |
| 12 | Journal of Management Studies | The Journal of Management Studies (JMS) is a globally respected, multidisciplinary journal with a long-established history of excellence in management research. JMS publishes innovative empirical and conceptual articles which advance knowledge of management and organization broadly defined, in such fields as organization theory, organizational behavior, human resource management, strategy, international business, entrepreneurship, innovation, and critical management studies. JMS has an inclusive ethos and is open to a wide range of methodological approaches and philosophical underpinnings. | 7.388 | View |
| 13 | Organization Studies | Organization Studies (OS) is a highly ranked and globally respected, multidisciplinary journal with over 40 years of history of publishing excellent organizational research. OS aims at advancing our knowledge of organizations, organizing, and the organized in and between societies. It is broadly rooted in the social sciences and promotes an understanding of organizations, organizing, and the organized as phenomena that shape and are shaped by the societies of which they are part. | 6.306 | View |
| 14 | International Journal of Management Reviews | The International Journal of Management Reviews (IJMR) is the leading global review journal in Organisation and Management Studies (OMS). Papers published in IJMR seek to make significant conceptual contributions, offering a strategic platform for new directions in research and making a difference to how OMS scholars might conceptualize research in their respective fields. | 13.419 | View |
| 15 | Human Resource Management Review | The Human Resource Management Review (HRMR) is a quarterly academic journal devoted to the publication of scholarly conceptual/theoretical articles pertaining to human resource management and allied fields (e.g. industrial/organizational psychology, human capital, labor relations, and organizational behavior). HRMR welcomes manuscripts that focus on micro-, macro-, or multi-level phenomena relating to the function and processes of human resource management. HRMR publishes articles that provide new insights aimed at stimulating future theory development and empirical research. | 7.444 | View |
| 16 | Human Relations | Human Relations is an international peer-reviewed journal, which publishes the highest quality original research to advance our understanding of social relationships at and around work through theoretical development and empirical investigation. Human Relations welcomes manuscripts that seek to cross disciplinary boundaries in order to develop new perspectives and insights into social relationships and relationships between people and organizations. | 5.732 | View |
| 17 | Organization Science | Organization Science publishes fundamental research about organizations, including their processes, structures, technologies, identities, capabilities, forms, and performance. Research from different disciplines, such as organizational behavior and theory, strategic management, psychology, sociology, economics, political science, information systems, technology management, communication, and cognitive science, is represented in the journal. | 5.000 | View |
| 18 | Journal of Occupational Health Psychology | The Journal of Occupational Health Psychology publishes theory, research, and public policy articles in occupational health psychology, an interdisciplinary field representing a broad range of backgrounds, interests, and specializations. Occupational health psychology concerns the application of psychology to improving the quality of work-life and to protecting and promoting the safety, health, and well-being of workers. The journal has a threefold focus, including organization of work, individual psychological attributes, and work–non-work interface in relation to employee health, safety, or well-being. | 7.25 | View |
| 19 | Administrative Science Quarterly | Administrative Science Quarterly seeks to advance the understanding of management, organizations, and organizing in a wide variety of contexts, including teams, business and non-profit organizations, government agencies, and markets. Contributions to this enterprise can include the discovery and analysis of new phenomena, new theoretical accounts informed by empirical analysis or the disconfirmation of existing theory. | 11.113 | View |
| 20 | Academy of Management Proceedings | Academy of Management Annual Meeting Proceedings is only published online. It includes abstracts of all papers and symposia presented at the annual conference. It also includes 6-page abridged versions of the “Best Papers” accepted for inclusion in the program (approximately 10%). | – | View |
I hope this article would help you to choose the top journals in human resources management to publish your research work.
