The following list gives some of the major leadership and management journals and their relative academic rankings.

Top Rank Journals

• Academy of Management Journal
• Academy of Management Review
• Administrative Science Quarterly
• American Journal of Sociology
• American Sociological Review
• Sociology
• Strategic Management Journal

Middle Rank Journals

• American Behavioral Scientist
• British Journal of Industrial Relations
• British Journal of Management
• California Management Review
• Financial Accountability and Management
• Harvard Business Review
• Human Relations
• Human Resource Management Journal
• Industrial Relations
• International Journal of Human Resource Management
• Journal of Economic Behavior and Organization
• Journal of European Social Policy
• Journal of General Management
• Journal of Management
• Journal of Management Studies
• Journal of Organizational Behavior
• Journal of Public Administration Research and Theory
• Journal of Public Policy
• Leadership and Organizational Development Journal
• Management Science
• Non-Profit Management and Leadership
• Omega
• Organization
• Organization Science
• Organization Studies
• Organizational Dynamics
• Research Policy
• Scandinavian Journal of Management
• The Economic Journal
• Theory and Society
• Voluntas
• Work Organization and Society

Other Management and Leadership Journals

• Advancing Women in Leadership
• European Management Journal
• International Business Review
• Journal of Leadership and Organizational Studies
• Journal of Management Inquiry
• Leader to Leader
• Management Learning
• The Leadership Quarterly

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