Human Systems Management

Aims & Scope

Human Systems Management (HSM) is an interdisciplinary, international, refereed journal, offering applicable, scientific insight into reinventing business, civil-society and government organizations, through the sustainable development of high-technology processes and structures.

Adhering to the highest civic, ethical and moral ideals, the journal promotes the emerging anthropocentric-sociocentric paradigm of societal human systems, rather than the pervasively mechanistic and organismic or medieval corporatism views of humankind’s recent past.

Intentionality and scope Their management autonomy, capability, culture, mastery, processes, purposefulness, skills, structure and technology often determine which human organizations truly are societal systems, while others are not.

HSM seeks to help transform human organizations into true societal systems, free of bureaucratic ills, along two essential, inseparable, yet complementary aspects of modern management: a) the management of societal human systems: the mastery, science and technology of management, including self management, striving for strategic, business and functional effectiveness, efficiency and productivity, through high quality and high technology, i.e., the capabilities and competences that only truly societal human systems create and use, and b) the societal human systems management: the enabling of human beings to form creative teams, communities and societies through autonomy, mastery and purposefulness, on both a personal and a collegial level, while catalyzing people’s creative, inventive and innovative potential, as people participate in corporate-, business- and functional-level decisions.

Appreciably large is the gulf between the innovative ideas that world-class societal human systems create and use, and what some conventional business journals offer.

The latter often pertain to already refuted practices, while outmoded business-school curricula reinforce this problematic situation.

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Metrics & Ranking

Impact Factor

Year	Value
2025	1.3

SJR (SCImago Journal Rank)

Year	Value
2024	0.391

Quartile

Year	Value
2024	Q3

h-index

Year	Value
2024	34

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Abstracting & Indexing

Journal is indexed in leading academic databases, ensuring global visibility and accessibility of our peer-reviewed research.

• Scopus
• Google Scholar
• Web of Science

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Subjects & Keywords

Journal’s research areas, covering key disciplines and specialized sub-topics in Business, Management and Accounting, designed to support cutting-edge academic discovery.

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Most Cited Articles

The Most Cited Articles section features the journal's most impactful research, based on citation counts. These articles have been referenced frequently by other researchers, indicating their significant contribution to their respective fields.

• Guanxi: principles, philosophies, and implications

  Citation: 291

  Authors: Y.

• A pilot study of fuzzy set modification of Delphi*

  Citation: 271

  Authors: Thomas J., Leo L., John P.

• Management support systems: Towards integrated knowledge management

  Citation: 189

  Authors: Milan

• Soft Systems Methodology*

  Citation: 155

  Authors: Peter B.

• Knowledge management and intellectual capital – the new virtuous reality of competitiveness

  Citation: 150

  Authors: P.N.

• Information overload: Causes and consequences*

  Citation: 141

  Authors: Susan C.

• The rise and fall of Organizational Commitment

  Citation: 96

  Authors: Yehuda

• Impact of employees engagement and knowledge sharing on organizational performance: Study of HR challenges in COVID-19 pandemic

  Citation: 86

  Authors: Tanveer, Muhammad Shahid, Duangkamol, Yananda, Tawat

• Multiple criteria decision making: eight concepts of optimality1

  Citation: 82

  Authors: Milan

• A learning organization perspective on knowledge-sharing behavior and firm innovation

  Citation: 66

  Authors: Li-Fen

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