The Strategic Management Journal (SMJ), founded in 1980, is the world’s leading mass impact journal for research in strategic management. The SMJ publishes papers that are selected through a rigorous double-blind review process. For information about SMJ's submission guidelines, please click here.
SMS Members can read articles online both after publication and ahead of print. Click here for SMJ Articles.
Oliver Alexy
John Busenbark
Mark DesJardine
Nilanjana Dutt
Aline Gatignon
Cedric Gutierrez
Han Jiang
Arturs Kalnins
Dongil Keum
Jin Hyung Kim
Catherine Magelssen
Joseph Raffiee
Victoria Sevcenko
Georg Wernicke
SMJ is the world’s leading mass impact journal for research in strategic management.
In 2022, across six key JCR scales (total citations, two-year impact factor, five-year impact factor, immediacy index, Eigenfactor score, article influence score), SMJ is 44th out of 226 in the Management list and 38th out of 154 in the Business list.
In the most recent Journal Citation Report (released in June 2022), SMJ had a two-year impact factor of 7.815. SMJ has a five-year impact factor of 12.247.
In the last five years (2019 through 2022), SMJ received 4,465 original submissions from scholars based in 93 countries.
SMS Collections help summarize and integrate research themes from SMS scholarship, while highlighting potential paths for ongoing research. Click here to access the latest SMS Collections.