Below you will find the CABS business journal ranking (formerly the ABS Journal Ranking) for Entrepreneurship and Small Business Management and Innovation — 79 journals from the 2024 Chartered ABS Academic Journal Guide.
Each entry carries the AJG 2024 grade, the previous 2021 grade, and supplementary metrics: CiteScore rank, SNIP, SJR, JIF, SDG alignment, international co-authorship, academic–non-academic collaboration, and policy citations.
The rankings are based on the Chartered Association of Business Schools’ 2024 methodology, which combines expert panel evaluation with peer consultation and normalized citation metrics.
Seventy-nine journals classified by the Chartered Association of Business Schools across two AJG subfields in the 2024 Academic Journal Guide.
Part of the AJG 2024 series. The AJG is one of the reference national rankings for UK business schools; Entrepreneurship and Innovation are grouped here, and other fields are published separately.
Peer-review plus bibliometrics. Grades combine expert panel evaluation with peer consultation and normalized citation metrics — CiteScore, SNIP, SJR and JIF — alongside SDG, co-authorship, academic–non-academic collaboration and policy-citation indicators.
— AJG grade definitions
How to read the table: use the field filter to isolate Entrepreneurship or Innovation, the grade tabs to see the distribution, or search for a specific journal. The AJG 2021 column shows grade movement since the previous edition.
The methodology behind the grades — editorial review, peer review, and citation analysis — is detailed in the Authoritative Guideline post.
4* is the highest tier, followed by 4, 3, 2 and 1. The scale is ordinal: each step marks a lower AJG classification, built on expert panel review and citation analysis rather than a single composite score.
Distribution across the 79 Entrepreneurship & Innovation journals. Three sit at 4*, two at 4, eleven at 3, twenty-three at 2, and forty at 1.
Not a rank. Journals within the same grade are not ordered against each other by the AJG. Alphabetical order is used here only as a tiebreaker.
The top two tiers. Journals here are treated as world-leading or excellent outlets within the UK evaluation framework.
5 journals in this list sit in tiers 4* and 4.
Middle tiers. Journals here are recognised as established outlets with strong reputations in their subfields.
34 journals in this list sit in tiers 3 and 2.
Entry and emerging tier. Journals here are recognised specialist outlets or newer titles still establishing their reputation.
40 journals in this list sit in tier 1.
A caution: the AJG is a UK-centred framework. Comparisons with other national lists — the FNEGE in France, ABDC in Australia, VHB in the German-speaking world, or SJR internationally — will not map one-to-one.
Data source. The Academic Journal Guide 2024, published by the Chartered Association of Business Schools (CABS).
Peer review + bibliometrics. Journals are reviewed by expert panels and peer consultation, then cross-checked against Scopus/Clarivate citation metrics — CiteScore, SNIP, SJR, JIF — plus SDG, co-authorship, academic–non-academic collaboration and policy-citation indicators.
Coverage. Two AJG subfields are combined here (Entrepreneurship & Small Business Management, and Innovation). Other AJG subfields are published as separate lists.
79 Entrepreneurship & Innovation journals across two subfields, with AJG 2024 grade, 2021 grade, CiteScore rank, SNIP, SJR, JIF, SDG%, Int’l%, A-N-A% and Policy.
The AJG 2024 edition as published by CABS.
Other AJG fields — Accounting & Finance, Economics & Business History, Operations & Technology Management, Organizational Psychology, Information Systems, Marketing, Organization Management & Strategy, International Business & Area Studies, HRM & Employment Studies, Management Development & Education — published as separate lists.
For the methodology behind the grades, see the Authoritative Guideline post, and the official Chartered ABS Academic Journal Guide page.
The AJG splits Entrepreneurship & Innovation into two adjacent subfields. This page combines both, and the field filter above lets you isolate one at a time.
Each subfield carries its own grade distribution and its own profile of bibliometric indicators — combining them into one table shows where the fields differ and where they meet.
36 journals. Covers entrepreneurship theory, family business, venture capital, small business management, and social entrepreneurship titles.
Grade split: 2 at 4*, 1 at 4, 6 at 3, 10 at 2, 17 at 1.
43 journals. Covers innovation management, technology transfer, science and technology studies, and research policy titles.
Grade split: 1 at 4*, 1 at 4, 5 at 3, 13 at 2, 23 at 1.
If you are looking for other business and management journal rankings — such as the CABS Academic Journal Guide, the ABDC Journal Quality List, or the SCImago Journal Rank (SJR) — you can find them via the links below.
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