--- title: "Marketing journal rankings: citations and h-index" description: "Among the 15 tracked marketing journals, Journal of Retailing and Consumer Services has the highest 2-year mean citedness in OpenAlex (14.31), followed by Journal of the Academy of Marketing Science (11.44) and Industrial Marketing Management (8.50). By h-index, Journal of the Academy of Marketing Science leads with 298." url: https://scholar4ai.com/rankings/journal-metrics/marketing markdown_url: https://scholar4ai.com/rankings/journal-metrics/marketing.md license: CC BY-NC 4.0 (https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc/4.0/) share_text: "Among the 15 tracked marketing journals, Journal of Retailing and Consumer Services has the highest 2-year mean citedness in OpenAlex (14.31), followed by Journal of the Academy of Marketing Science (11.44) and… (as of 2026-10-31)" data_url: https://scholar4ai.com/data/rankings.json updated: 2026-10-31T07:48:13+09:00 window: 2026-10-02 to 2026-10-31 source: OpenAlex (CC0) --- # Marketing journal rankings by citations The 15 tracked marketing journals ranked by 2-year mean citedness, with their h-index, i10-index and papers and citations in 2025. 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. By category: [Finance](https://scholar4ai.com/rankings/journal-metrics/finance.md) · [Accounting](https://scholar4ai.com/rankings/journal-metrics/accounting.md) · [Economics](https://scholar4ai.com/rankings/journal-metrics/economics.md) · [Health Economics and Policy](https://scholar4ai.com/rankings/journal-metrics/health-economics-and-policy.md) · [Management](https://scholar4ai.com/rankings/journal-metrics/management.md) · [Marketing](https://scholar4ai.com/rankings/journal-metrics/marketing.md) · [Information Systems](https://scholar4ai.com/rankings/journal-metrics/information-systems.md) · [Tourism and Hospitality](https://scholar4ai.com/rankings/journal-metrics/tourism-and-hospitality.md) · [Higher Education and Research](https://scholar4ai.com/rankings/journal-metrics/higher-education-and-research.md) · [Operations Research](https://scholar4ai.com/rankings/journal-metrics/operations-research.md) · [Statistics](https://scholar4ai.com/rankings/journal-metrics/statistics.md) · [AI](https://scholar4ai.com/rankings/journal-metrics/ai.md) ## Key findings - Among the 15 tracked marketing journals, Journal of Retailing and Consumer Services has the highest 2-year mean citedness in OpenAlex (14.31), followed by Journal of the Academy of Marketing Science (11.44) and Industrial Marketing Management (8.50). - By h-index, Journal of the Academy of Marketing Science leads with 298. - Journal of Retailing and Consumer Services published the most papers in 2025 (444). *Tracked marketing journals by 2-year mean citedness (OpenAlex)* | # | Journal | 2-year citedness | h-index | i10-index | Papers 2025 | Citations 2025 | Publisher | |---:|---|---:|---:|---:|---:|---:|---| | 1 | [Journal of Retailing and Consumer Services](https://scholar4ai.com/journals/journal-of-retailing-and-consumer-services.md) | 14.31 | 236 | 3,617 | 444 | 45,932 | Elsevier BV | | 2 | [Journal of the Academy of Marketing Science](https://scholar4ai.com/journals/journal-of-the-academy-of-marketing-science.md) | 11.44 | 298 | 1,823 | 56 | 33,160 | Springer Science+Business Media | | 3 | [Industrial Marketing Management](https://scholar4ai.com/journals/industrial-marketing-management.md) | 8.50 | 245 | 3,804 | 146 | 23,704 | Elsevier BV | | 4 | [International Journal of Research in Marketing](https://scholar4ai.com/journals/international-journal-of-research-in-marketing.md) | 7.66 | 176 | 1,219 | 78 | 9,299 | Elsevier BV | | 5 | [Public Relations Review](https://scholar4ai.com/journals/public-relations-review.md) | 5.84 | 157 | 2,087 | 98 | 8,600 | Elsevier BV | | 6 | [Journal of Retailing](https://scholar4ai.com/journals/journal-of-retailing.md) | 5.68 | 227 | 1,012 | 71 | 11,680 | Elsevier BV | | 7 | [Journal of Marketing Analytics](https://scholar4ai.com/journals/journal-of-marketing-analytics.md) | 5.59 | 41 | 224 | 83 | 2,354 | Palgrave Macmillan | | 8 | [Journal of Brand Management](https://scholar4ai.com/journals/journal-of-brand-management.md) | 5.51 | 133 | 958 | 48 | 5,033 | Palgrave Macmillan | | 9 | [Journal of Financial Services Marketing](https://scholar4ai.com/journals/journal-of-financial-services-marketing.md) | 4.62 | 66 | 457 | 40 | 1,988 | Palgrave Macmillan | | 10 | [AMS Review](https://scholar4ai.com/journals/ams-review.md) | 4.46 | 44 | 176 | 34 | 1,382 | Springer Science+Business Media | | 11 | [International Review on Public and Nonprofit Marketing](https://scholar4ai.com/journals/international-review-on-public-and-nonprofit-marketing.md) | 3.09 | 41 | 247 | 39 | 1,015 | Springer Science+Business Media | | 12 | [Place Branding and Public Diplomacy](https://scholar4ai.com/journals/place-branding-and-public-diplomacy.md) | 2.96 | 56 | 372 | 32 | 1,338 | Palgrave Macmillan | | 13 | [Corporate Reputation Review](https://scholar4ai.com/journals/corporate-reputation-review.md) | 2.87 | 101 | 457 | 39 | 2,273 | Palgrave Macmillan | | 14 | [Journal of Consumer Policy](https://scholar4ai.com/journals/journal-of-consumer-policy.md) | 2.75 | 87 | 513 | 27 | 2,197 | Springer Science+Business Media | | 15 | [Marketing Letters](https://scholar4ai.com/journals/marketing-letters.md) | 2.37 | 122 | 904 | 46 | 4,357 | Springer Science+Business Media | ## Cite this page Scholar4AI. (2026). Marketing journal rankings by citations. Journal Research Rankings. Retrieved October 31, 2026, from https://scholar4ai.com/rankings/journal-metrics/marketing ```bibtex @misc{scholar4ai-rankings-journal-metrics-marketing, author = {{Scholar4AI}}, title = {Marketing journal rankings by citations}, year = {2026}, howpublished = {\url{https://scholar4ai.com/rankings/journal-metrics/marketing}}, urldate = {2026-10-31}, note = {Journal Research Rankings; data from OpenAlex (CC0); licensed CC BY-NC 4.0} } ``` License: CC BY-NC 4.0 (https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc/4.0/).