Baltic Journal of Management: Scopus Indexing, Metrics, Scope & Submission Guide

Quick Answer: What Is Baltic Journal of Management?

Baltic Journal of Management is an Emerald Publishing journal covering business, management and organisational research. The journal’s stated aim is not to publish only research conducted in Baltic countries. Rather, it seeks management and organisational research that matters to readers in and beyond the Baltic Sea region, and it explicitly welcomes authors from both inside and outside the region.

The journal is currently listed by Emerald as indexed in Scopus and the Social Sciences Citation Index, among other services. Its ISSN is 1746-5265 and its eISSN is 1746-5273. The supplied Scopus Source ID is 12100154706.

Authors considering BJM should compare their manuscript with the journal’s aims and scope, recent papers and article categories before submission. They should also check the current Emerald author guidelines because manuscript rules, editorial information, metrics, APCs and processing statistics can change.

Key Takeaways

• Publisher: Emerald Publishing.
• Scope: major disciplines of management, with particular interest in management and organisational issues relevant to the Baltic Sea region and international audiences.
• Scopus: indexed; supplied Source ID 12100154706.
• 2025 metrics displayed by Emerald: CiteScore 6.3; Journal Impact Factor 2.5; five-year Impact Factor 3.2.
• Peer review: editor screening followed, where suitable, by at least two independent referees using double-anonymous review.
• Article length: 6,000–9,000 words under the current author guidelines, including the specified counted elements.
• Open access: optional gold OA after acceptance plus green self-archiving; authors should verify the current APC rather than rely on an old quoted fee.
• Current publisher-reported acceptance rate: 5.7% for submissions from 1 April 2024 to 31 March 2025; this is not a guarantee or forecast for an individual paper.

Journal Information at a Glance

What This Page Covers

• Aims, scope and subject coverage
• Scopus and Web of Science visibility
• Current publisher-displayed citation and publication metrics
• Article types and manuscript categories
• Word count, abstract, keyword, figure, table and reference requirements
• Double-anonymous peer review and publisher-reported processing times
• Open access choices, APC caution and publication ethics
• A practical journal-fit and publication-readiness checklist

Methodology and Sources

This profile was prepared from the supplied journal record and Contentxprtz HTML template, then checked against authoritative publishing information available on 11 August 2026. The primary source is the official Emerald Baltic Journal of Management page, including its aims and scope, author guidelines, editorial team, indexing list, peer-review description, open-access policy and current metrics. The supplied Scopus Source ID is linked to the Scopus source profile. A current university research-portal record was used only to supplement SJR and SNIP values where the Emerald page did not display them.

Metrics, fees, indexing coverage, editorial appointments and processing statistics are time-sensitive. For a thesis, promotion, grant, regulatory or university requirement, treat the live publisher, Scopus and Clarivate records as the final authority.

What Is Baltic Journal of Management?

BJM is a multidisciplinary management journal rather than a narrowly specialised title. Its role is to publish research that can contribute to management knowledge across strategy, operations, international business, marketing, human resources, organisational behaviour, entrepreneurship, innovation, digital technology, sustainability and governance.

The “Baltic” identity matters because the journal highlights management and organisational issues relevant to the Baltic Sea region. However, the scope is international. Emerald explicitly encourages submissions from authors both within and outside the region. This makes the journal potentially relevant to studies that use Baltic settings, compare Baltic countries with other economies, examine management phenomena with wider theoretical implications, or address globally relevant management problems in ways that can speak to the journal’s readership.

For researchers evaluating fit, the key question is not simply whether the study took place in Estonia, Latvia, Lithuania or another Baltic context. A stronger test is whether the manuscript makes a clear contribution to a management discipline covered by the journal and whether its framing, methods and implications align with the type of work BJM has recently published.

Understanding the Journal’s Aims and Scope

Emerald describes BJM as publishing high-quality peer-reviewed research across all major disciplines of management. It welcomes both theoretical and empirical studies. The journal also expresses interest in research using multiple methods or research techniques, interdisciplinary work, international and comparative studies, literature reviews and opinion pieces.

Subjects explicitly covered

• Strategic and operations management
• International business and management
• Marketing and consumer studies
• Human resource management and organisational behaviour
• Entrepreneurship and management of innovation
• Innovation, digital technology, and business and marketing analytics
• Corporate social responsibility and sustainability
• Corporate governance

What this scope means in practice

As an editorial interpretation, the scope supports diverse research designs and theoretical traditions, but breadth does not remove the need for a sharp contribution. A manuscript on leadership, digital transformation, innovation, employee behaviour, sustainability or international management may be thematically relevant but still be unsuitable if its research question is weak, the contribution is unclear, or the paper is not positioned for BJM’s management audience.

Researchers should inspect several recent BJM articles close to their topic and method. That comparison helps answer questions the scope statement alone cannot: whether the journal commonly publishes the chosen methodology, how authors frame contributions, how much contextual detail is expected, and which conversations appear most active.

Understanding Its Scopus Coverage and Journal Metrics

Emerald lists Baltic Journal of Management as abstracted and indexed in Scopus, the Social Sciences Citation Index, Journal Citation Reports, Social SciSearch, International Bibliography of Social Sciences, ProQuest, Zetoc and several other services. This confirms both Scopus visibility and Clarivate coverage on the current publisher page.

The supplied Scopus Source ID is 12100154706. For authors whose institutions require a Scopus-indexed journal, the safest practice is to open the live Scopus source page immediately before submission and again before relying on the publication for a formal requirement.

Current metrics visible on the publisher page

Metrics are useful signals, not a substitute for scope fit, research quality or institutional rules. A PhD programme may specify a particular database, category, quartile, list or reporting year. Authors should confirm exactly which definition their university uses before treating a journal metric as proof of eligibility.

Who Should Consider Submitting to Baltic Journal of Management?

BJM may be a reasonable candidate for scholars in management and business whose manuscript offers a clear theoretical, empirical or practice-relevant contribution. It may be especially worth evaluating when the paper has a Baltic, Nordic, European, emerging-economy, international or comparative dimension, although the journal’s scope is not restricted to those contexts.

What Types of Articles Does the Journal Publish?

The current Emerald submission system lists paper-type options including Original Article, Book Review, Conference Report, Insight from Industry Papers, Doctoral Paper and Research Note. Authors are also asked to choose a manuscript category that best describes the paper.

Emerald’s category guidance includes research papers, viewpoints, technical papers, conceptual papers, case studies, literature reviews and general reviews. This classification matters because the editorial team will assess the submission partly in the context of what the paper claims to be. A literature review should genuinely analyse or critique the literature; a conceptual paper should develop ideas or hypotheses; a research paper should clearly report the research undertaken.

Manuscript and Formatting Requirements Authors Should Check

What Happens After You Submit a Manuscript?

The corresponding author submits through ScholarOne via the official Emerald page. Emerald states that the author should submit directly; third-party agents or companies should not submit on the author’s behalf.

After submission, the editor screens the manuscript. A paper may be declined or returned at this stage if it does not fit the aims and scope or if the manuscript/language quality is too low. If the editor considers the paper potentially suitable, it is sent to at least two independent referees for double-anonymous peer review. After reviewer reports are received, the editor may accept, request minor or major revision, or decline.

Emerald currently displays 22 days to first decision for submissions between 1 April 2024 and 31 March 2025. The author guidelines also state a general goal of communicating a first decision within 60 days. These figures describe past or target performance; they are not promises for every manuscript. The publisher displays 37 days from acceptance to publication, last updated April 2025.

Open Access, Publication Fees and Author Rights

BJM is not presented by Emerald as a fully open-access journal. Instead, authors can choose a gold open-access route after acceptance. Emerald states that authors choosing gold OA pay an article processing charge and that the article is published under a Creative Commons CC BY 4.0 licence.

The journal-specific APC is not reproduced here because Emerald says the charge varies by journal and directs authors to its current APC price list or editorial system. Authors should verify the exact fee, currency, taxes, waiver eligibility and institutional agreements at the time of submission or acceptance.

Emerald also describes a green open-access route. Under its current policy, the author accepted manuscript may be self-archived and made openly available when the article is published, without an embargo period. Authors should still read the current rights and repository terms before depositing a manuscript.

Research and Publication Ethics

Emerald states that its editors and employees follow guidance from the Committee on Publication Ethics (COPE) and its own research and publishing ethics policies. For BJM authors, the main practical requirements include originality, no simultaneous submission elsewhere, accurate authorship, disclosure of conflicts of interest, appropriate permissions for third-party material and accountability for the integrity of the work.

The journal may use Crossref Similarity Check. That should not be interpreted as a simple “similarity percentage” test; authors remain responsible for genuine originality, correct quotation and citation, lawful reuse of material, and transparent disclosure of prior related publication where relevant.

Emerald also states that it is a signatory to the Transparency and Openness Promotion guidelines. Authors are encouraged to cite data, code and methods appropriately, use persistent identifiers for data or code where possible, and observe privacy, data-protection and ethical requirements.

Step-by-Step Submission Guide

1. Check fit first. Re-read BJM’s aims and scope and compare the manuscript with recent articles.
2. Select the correct paper type and category. Make sure the manuscript actually behaves like the category selected.
3. Bring the paper within the current word-count rule. Count figures and tables according to Emerald’s stated allowance.
4. Prepare the structured abstract. Use all four mandatory headings and optional implication headings only when relevant.
5. Choose up to 12 focused keywords. Prefer terms that accurately describe the research rather than broad search phrases.
6. Check anonymity. Remove author names and identifying clues from the manuscript; upload acknowledgements and biographies separately.
7. Check references and permissions. Use a recognised Harvard style and verify every citation and DOI.
8. Complete ethics and funding disclosures. Confirm originality, conflicts, funding and third-party permissions.
9. Submit directly through ScholarOne. Use the link on the official Emerald journal page; do not use a submission proxy.
10. Keep the manuscript number. Use it for future communication and monitor the editorial system for updates.

Publication-Readiness Checklist for BJM Authors

Why a Manuscript May Be Unsuitable Even When the Topic Fits

A paper can match a listed subject and still be rejected at editorial screening. Common risks include a weak theoretical contribution, a purely descriptive local study, methods that do not support the conclusions, an unclear research question, poor connection to current management literature, substantial language or structure problems, failure to anonymise the manuscript, or non-compliance with ethical and formatting requirements.

As a practical publication-readiness step, authors should write a one-paragraph “fit statement” for themselves before submission: what BJM conversation does the paper join, what is genuinely new, why does the evidence support that contribution, and which recent BJM papers show that the audience is relevant? If those answers are vague, the manuscript probably needs more work before submission.

How Contentxprtz Can Ethically Support Publication Readiness

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For BJM specifically, ethical support can help an author check whether the argument is clear, whether the structured abstract reflects the study accurately, whether tables and references are consistent, whether the manuscript is written in a professional academic style, and whether the submission package follows the journal’s current instructions. Contentxprtz cannot guarantee acceptance, peer-review success, publication, indexing, citation performance or any metric outcome.

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Official Sources and Links

• Baltic Journal of Management — official Emerald journal page, author guidelines, metrics and editorial information
• Scopus Source ID 12100154706
• Clarivate Master Journal List — use for current Web of Science verification
• Committee on Publication Ethics (COPE)

Conclusion: Is Baltic Journal of Management a Good Fit for Your Paper?

Baltic Journal of Management is a legitimate, internationally oriented Emerald management journal with verified Scopus and Social Sciences Citation Index visibility. Its current scope is broad across management disciplines, while its Baltic identity gives useful context to the kinds of regional and comparative questions it may find especially relevant. Current publisher-displayed metrics include a 2025 CiteScore of 6.3 and a 2025 Journal Impact Factor of 2.5.

For an author, however, the strongest reason to submit is not a metric. It is a defensible match between the paper and the journal’s management audience, supported by rigorous research, a clear contribution, careful manuscript preparation and compliance with the current instructions. Verify the live journal page before submission, then prepare the manuscript to withstand both editorial screening and double-anonymous peer review.

Contentxprtz can support that preparation through ethical editing, formatting and publication-readiness review while leaving all research decisions, authorship responsibilities and submission choices with the researcher. “At Contentxprtz, we don’t just edit; we help ideas reach their fullest potential.”