Strategic Management Journal

Aims & Scope

The Strategic Management Journal seeks to publish the highest quality research with questions, evidence and conclusions that are relevant to strategic management and engaging to strategic management scholars.

We receive manuscripts with a diverse mix of topics, framings, and methods, and our acceptances reflect this diversity.

More specifically, the Strategic Management Journal seeks to publish papers that ask and help to answer important and interesting questions in strategic management, develop and/or test theory, replicate prior studies, explore interesting phenomena, review and synthesize existing research, and evaluate the many methodologies used in our field.

SMJ also publishes studies that demonstrate a lack of statistical support in a particular sample for specific hypotheses or research propositions.

We welcome a diverse range of researcher methods and are open to papers that rely on statistical inference, qualitative data, verbal theory, computational models and mathematical models.

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Metrics & Ranking

Impact Factor

Year	Value
2025	7.2
2024	6.50

SJR (SCImago Journal Rank)

Year	Value
2024	10.176

Quartile

Year	Value
2024	Q1

h-index

Year	Value
2024	351

Journal Rank

Year	Value
2024	85

Journal Citation Indicator

Year	Value
2024	3971

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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.

• Dynamic capabilities and strategic management

  Citation: 19814

  Authors: David J., Gary, Amy

• A resource‐based view of the firm

  Citation: 14765

  Authors: Birger

• Toward a knowledge‐based theory of the firm

  Citation: 9494

  Authors: Robert M.

• Explicating dynamic capabilities: the nature and microfoundations of (sustainable) enterprise performance

  Citation: 9444

  Authors: David J.

• Dynamic capabilities: what are they?

  Citation: 8519

  Authors: Kathleen M., Jeffrey A.

• The cornerstones of competitive advantage: A resource‐based view

  Citation: 5971

  Authors: Margaret A.

• The myopia of learning

  Citation: 5125

  Authors: Daniel A., James G.

• Exploring internal stickiness: Impediments to the transfer of best practice within the firm

  Citation: 4930

  Authors: Gabriel

• Strategic assets and organizational rent

  Citation: 4849

  Authors: Raphael, Paul J. H.

• Use of partial least squares (PLS) in strategic management research: a review of four recent studies

  Citation: 4530

  Authors: John

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