--- title: "Systemic Practice and Action Research: citation impact" description: "Systemic Practice and Action Research has a 2-year mean citedness of 2.10 and an h-index of 64 in OpenAlex, #53 of 56 tracked management journals by citedness. In 2025 it published 41 papers, and its papers received 1,298 citations." url: https://scholar4ai.com/journals/systemic-practice-and-action-research markdown_url: https://scholar4ai.com/journals/systemic-practice-and-action-research.md license: CC BY-NC 4.0 (https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc/4.0/) share_text: "Systemic Practice and Action Research has a 2-year mean citedness of 2.10 and an h-index of 64 in OpenAlex, #53 of 56 tracked management journals by citedness. (as of 2026-11-04)" data_url: https://scholar4ai.com/data/rankings.json updated: 2026-11-04T00:03:46+09:00 window: 2026-10-06 to 2026-11-04 source: OpenAlex (CC0) --- # Systemic Practice and Action Research - 0 papers in the last 7 days - category: Management - publisher: Springer Science+Business Media - ISSN 0894-9859 - Journal website: https://www.springer.com/journal/11213 - ISSN portal: https://portal.issn.org/resource/ISSN/0894-9859 - OpenAlex: https://openalex.org/S69790668 Back to the ranking: https://scholar4ai.com/rankings/journals.md Rankings of Management: [Management dashboard](https://scholar4ai.com/categories/management.md) · [Management journal rankings by citations](https://scholar4ai.com/rankings/journal-metrics/management.md) · [Top management institutions, 2023–2025](https://scholar4ai.com/rankings/institutions-by-year/management.md) · [Top funders of management research](https://scholar4ai.com/rankings/funders/management.md) · [Companies in management research](https://scholar4ai.com/rankings/companies/management.md) · [Open access in management journals](https://scholar4ai.com/rankings/open-access/management.md) · [Top Management conferences](https://scholar4ai.com/proceedings/categories/management.md) ## Key findings - Systemic Practice and Action Research has a 2-year mean citedness of 2.10 and an h-index of 64 in OpenAlex, #53 of 56 tracked management journals by citedness. - In 2025 it published 41 papers, and its papers received 1,298 citations. - Systemic Practice and Action Research published 4 papers in the last 30 days (2026-10-06 to 2026-11-04), ranking #254 of 480 journals. - Leading institutions: Imam Sadiq University (1), Czech University of Life Sciences Prague (1) and Lancaster University (1). - Countries: United Kingdom (2), Iran (1) and Czechia (1). - From Nov 2023 to Oct 2026, Systemic Practice and Action Research published 4 papers (0 a month on average, by publication date in OpenAlex). - Its most frequent keywords over that period were “stakeholder engagement” (2), “Hong Kong” (1) and “Scrum” (1). ## Citation metrics *Citation metrics (OpenAlex)* | Metric | Value | |---|---:| | 2-year mean citedness | 2.10 | | h-index | 64 | | i10-index | 621 | | Papers in OpenAlex | 1,653 | | Citations in OpenAlex | 26,232 | | Rank among tracked management journals | [#53 of 56](https://scholar4ai.com/rankings/journal-metrics/management.md) | *Papers per year and the citations the journal's papers received that year (OpenAlex)* | Year | Papers | Citations received | |---|---:|---:| | 2026 (so far) | 36 | 1,015 | | 2025 | 41 | 1,298 | | 2024 | 42 | 1,537 | | 2023 | 39 | 1,667 | | 2022 | 41 | 1,476 | | 2021 | 33 | 1,638 | | 2020 | 40 | 1,462 | | 2019 | 38 | 1,138 | | 2018 | 34 | 1,107 | | 2017 | 31 | 1,165 | | 2016 | 42 | 985 | 2-year mean citedness is OpenAlex's count of citations per paper a journal published in the two previous years, an open counterpart to the journal impact factor (which counts only Web of Science citations); the h-index and i10-index cover all its papers. The figures come from OpenAlex (CC0) and are read again monthly. Official metrics such as the Journal Impact Factor (Clarivate) and CiteScore (Scopus) are licensed by their owners and not copied here; the publisher shows them on the journal's website. Journal website: https://www.springer.com/journal/11213 ## The last 36 months *Papers by publication date, Nov 2023 to Oct 2026* | Nov 23–Oct 24 | Nov 24–Oct 25 | Nov 25–Oct 26 | 36 months | |---:|---:|---:|---:| | 0 | 0 | 4 | 4 | *Most frequent keywords, Nov 2023 to Oct 2026* | # | Keyword | Papers | |---:|---|---:| | 1 | [stakeholder engagement](https://scholar4ai.com/keywords/stakeholder-engagement.md) | 2 | | 2 | Hong Kong | 1 | | 3 | Scrum | 1 | | 4 | Scrum adoption | 1 | | 5 | action research | 1 | | 6 | affective practices | 1 | | 7 | agile software development | 1 | | 8 | boundary critique | 1 | | 9 | compassionate communities | 1 | | 10 | critical systems thinking | 1 | *Papers, newest first.* | Date | Title | Journal | Authors | Affiliations | |---|---|---|---|---| | 2026-10-28 | [Systemic Research Design as a Reflexive Architecture: Repositioning the Research Onion and the System of Systems Methodologies](https://doi.org/10.1007/s11213-026-09786-x) | [Systemic Practice and Action Research](https://scholar4ai.com/journals/systemic-practice-and-action-research.md) | Mohammadjafar Nazari | Imam Sadiq University | | 2026-10-24 | [Improving Scrum Team Collaboration with Soft System Methodology: A Case Study](https://doi.org/10.1007/s11213-026-09785-y) | [Systemic Practice and Action Research](https://scholar4ai.com/journals/systemic-practice-and-action-research.md) | Josef Kunhart, Jan Bartoška | Czech University of Life Sciences Prague | | 2026-10-06 | [Correction: Sedimenting Death Literacy Through Affective Practice: A Cooperative Inquiry in a Hong Kong Compassionate Community](https://doi.org/10.1007/s11213-026-09783-0) | [Systemic Practice and Action Research](https://scholar4ai.com/journals/systemic-practice-and-action-research.md) | Wing-Sun Chan | Lancaster University | | 2026-10-06 | [Leading to Action & Transformation? How Researchers are Applying System Thinking to Overcome Food System Challenges](https://doi.org/10.1007/s11213-026-09784-z) | [Systemic Practice and Action Research](https://scholar4ai.com/journals/systemic-practice-and-action-research.md) | Ana Elisa Pena del Valle, Matt P. Hare, Alison Jane Karley et al. | James Hutton Institute | ## Cite this page Scholar4AI. (2026). Systemic Practice and Action Research. Journal and Conference Research Rankings. 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