Journal of Fashion Marketing and Management: Scopus Profile, Metrics & Submission Guide

Key Takeaways

• Publisher: Emerald Publishing; print ISSN 1361-2026 and eISSN 1758-7433.
• Scopus: supplied Source ID 22920; Emerald lists Scopus among the journal’s ranking services.
• Current metrics displayed by Emerald: CiteScore 2025 = 9.6; Impact Factor 2025 = 3.3; five-year Impact Factor 2025 = 4.9.
• Review model: double-anonymous peer review, normally with at least two independent referees for papers that pass editorial screening.
• Manuscript length: 6,000–10,000 words, with Emerald’s stated counting rules for tables and figures.
• Official reported timelines: 60 days to first decision and 38 days from acceptance to publication for the reporting periods shown by Emerald.
• Open access: hybrid; gold OA is optional after acceptance, while Emerald also describes a green self-archiving route.

Journal Information at a Glance

What This Page Covers

• Aims and scope
• Scopus and indexing
• Journal metrics
• Article types
• Manuscript rules
• Peer review and timeline
• Open access and fees
• Journal-fit decisions
• Submission readiness

Methodology and Sources Used for This Journal Guide

The journal facts in this profile were checked primarily against the official Emerald JFMM page and author guidelines, the supplied Scopus source record, and the official Scopus source profile. Emerald’s journal finder and publishing policy pages were used for current acceptance-rate, timeline, open-access, and submission-process details.

Where a metric such as SJR, SNIP, or a current quartile was not directly displayed on the accessible official publisher page, this guide does not manufacture a value. Researchers should confirm the current figure in the relevant database because ranking values can change between reporting years.

What Are JFMM’s Aims and Scope?

Emerald describes JFMM as a journal that approaches fashion marketing and management from a business perspective grounded in apparel and clothing. Its role is not limited to promotional tactics or consumer advertising. The official aims extend across the fashion supply chain and connect marketing, management, theory, practice, economics, sustainability, social responsibility, innovation, and methodology.

In practical terms, the journal seeks rigorous work that can advance how researchers and industry professionals understand the operation of fashion markets and organizations. Emerald’s stated aims include disseminating pioneering research, examining major marketing and management issues in the global fashion supply chain, identifying strong theoretical and managerial practices, reviewing economic impacts, testing and challenging established theories, and encouraging novel research methods.

This makes JFMM relatively broad within a clearly defined fashion-business domain. A manuscript may be interdisciplinary, but its central contribution should still be recognizably relevant to fashion marketing or management. A technically sophisticated paper on AI, logistics, consumer psychology, sustainability, or digital platforms is not automatically in scope unless the fashion/apparel context is integral to the research question and contribution.

What Subjects and Research Themes Does the Journal Cover?

Recent material highlighted by Emerald includes work on model presentation and online shopping behaviour, avatar realism in the metaverse, Gen Z minimalist fashion, circular business models, and green signalling. These examples are useful signals of the journal’s contemporary interests, but they should not be treated as an exhaustive topic list.

Understanding Its Scopus Coverage and Other Indexing

The supplied record identifies Scopus Source ID 22920. Emerald lists Scopus among the systems that rank JFMM and displays a Scopus-derived CiteScore. Emerald also lists the journal as abstracted and indexed in the Social Sciences Citation Index (SSCI), ABI/INFORM, EBSCO Business Source Complete, INSPEC, Textile Technology Index, World Textile Abstracts, Zetoc, and several additional discovery services.

For a researcher, Scopus or SSCI visibility can matter for discoverability and institutional recognition, but indexing alone does not establish that a journal is appropriate for a specific manuscript. A journal can be reputable and indexed yet still be a poor fit for a paper whose problem, literature, population, or managerial implications sit outside its core readership.

Current Journal Metrics—and How to Interpret Them Carefully

Emerald currently displays a 2025 CiteScore of 9.6, a 2026 CiteScore Tracker of 8.3, a 2025 Journal Impact Factor of 3.3, and a 2025 five-year Impact Factor of 4.9. The tracker is provisional and updated monthly; it should not be presented as the final 2026 CiteScore.

Emerald also publishes operational indicators: an official 16.9% acceptance rate based on submissions between 1 April 2024 and 31 March 2025, 60 days to first decision for its stated reporting period, and 38 days from acceptance to publication for its stated 12-month data window. These figures describe historical journal performance, not a promise about a future submission.

As a journal-selection principle, metrics are best used as one dimension of evaluation. Scope fit, the match between your contribution and recent published work, the journal’s audience, methodological expectations, institutional rules, and your ability to satisfy the author guidelines are usually more actionable than a single citation score.

What Types of Articles Does JFMM Publish?

Emerald’s submission guidance lists Original Article and Book Reviews as article types and asks authors to select the most appropriate manuscript category. The available categories include research paper, viewpoint, technical paper, conceptual paper, case study, literature review, and general review.

Is This Journal a Good Match for Your Research?

A strong JFMM candidate normally has three layers of fit: domain fit (fashion/apparel is central rather than incidental), problem fit (the research addresses marketing, management, consumers, supply chains, responsibility, economics, digital innovation, or a related business question), and contribution fit (the paper advances theory, method, managerial practice, or evidence in a way that matters to the journal’s readership).

• Read the aims and scope. Write one sentence explaining exactly how your paper serves a stated JFMM aim.
• Review recent articles. Compare your topic, theory, method, geography, sample, and practical implications with several current papers.
• Define the contribution. State what a JFMM reader learns that is not already known.
• Check fashion centrality. Ask whether the paper would remain essentially unchanged if the word “fashion” were replaced by another sector. If yes, the journal fit may be weak.
• Check institutional requirements. Verify live Scopus/SSCI status and any quartile rule your university or employer applies.

If you have read the aims and scope and remain uncertain, Emerald states that authors may contact the editor with the paper title and structured abstract to ask about suitability. That is more reliable than guessing from a metric alone.

Manuscript Requirements Authors Should Prepare For

Emerald’s current author instructions are specific enough that authors should use them as a pre-submission checklist rather than formatting from memory.

Authors should also check Emerald’s current requirements for tables, figures, references, supplementary material, permissions, data, and research ethics immediately before uploading because detailed production specifications can change.

How to Submit to the Journal

JFMM submissions go through ScholarOne, accessed from the official Emerald journal page. Emerald explicitly states that the corresponding author should submit directly and that manuscripts should not be submitted by email, a third-party agent, a journal representative, or a proxy service.

1. Create or use the appropriate ScholarOne account and ensure each author’s information is correct.
2. Prepare an anonymized manuscript that follows the journal’s length, abstract, keyword, classification, and formatting rules.
3. Upload any separate author biographies, acknowledgements, figures, supplementary files, or permissions required by the journal.
4. Add all co-authors in the intended publication order and include ORCID information where available.
5. Complete declarations on funding, ethics, conflicts, and other submission questions accurately.
6. Review the generated submission proof carefully, then submit and retain the manuscript number from the confirmation email.

What to Expect From Editorial Screening and Peer Review

The process begins with editorial-office screening. A manuscript may be declined or returned before peer review if it does not fit submission policies, aims and scope, or if the manuscript or language quality is considered too weak for review.

When a submission is considered potentially suitable, Emerald states that JFMM sends it to at least two independent referees under a double-anonymous review model. Reviewers evaluate the manuscript without author identities, and the editor can then accept, request minor or major revisions, or decline the paper.

The currently displayed goal is 60 days to first decision. That figure is useful for planning, but authors should allow for variation. A paper requiring specialist reviewers, multiple revision rounds, data clarification, or substantial methodological discussion may take longer. After acceptance, Emerald reports an average of 38 days to publication for the stated reporting period, with the fully typeset version appearing online as an EarlyCite article before issue assignment where applicable.

Open Access, Self-Archiving, and Publication Fees

JFMM is a hybrid journal. Authors can publish through the standard subscription route or choose gold open access after acceptance. Emerald states that gold OA articles are published under a Creative Commons CC BY 4.0 licence and that the APC is requested only after acceptance when gold OA is selected.

Emerald also describes a green open-access route that allows the author accepted manuscript to be made openly available under its self-archiving policy. The publisher notes that it does not impose an embargo period on the accepted manuscript after the version of record is officially published, subject to its policy details.

The journal page does not provide a fixed APC amount in the accessible guidance used for this article. Because APCs, waivers, institutional agreements, and national arrangements can change, authors should confirm the current price on Emerald’s official APC list or in the editorial system. Emerald states that there is no routine submission, processing, or review charge under the standard route.

Publication Ethics, Transparency, and Author Responsibilities

Emerald’s author guidance places responsibility on authors for the accuracy and integrity of the work, appropriate authorship, funding disclosure, permissions, confidentiality, and compliance with research and publishing ethics. JFMM’s page also states that Emerald is a signatory to the Transparency and Openness Promotion (TOP) Guidelines and encourages authors to cite data, code, and methods appropriately, use persistent identifiers where possible, and follow applicable privacy and data-protection requirements.

For researchers, this means publication readiness is not just grammar and layout. Verify contributor roles, disclose funding and conflicts accurately, secure permissions, protect participant privacy, report methods transparently, check citations against the original sources, and make sure the manuscript does not overstate findings. If AI tools were used during research or writing, follow the publisher’s current policy and disclose use where required.

How to Prepare a Stronger, Journal-Aligned Manuscript

The following are practical publication-readiness steps rather than guarantees of editorial success.

A common weak submission is a generally sound marketing paper in which fashion appears mainly as the setting. A stronger JFMM submission explains why the fashion context changes the theory, evidence, managerial problem, or implications in a meaningful way.

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Contentxprtz does not guarantee acceptance, peer-review success, indexing, citations, or publication. Authors should submit their own manuscripts directly through the official journal system and retain responsibility for the research and its scholarly integrity.

Authoritative Sources to Recheck Before Submission

• Emerald Publishing — Journal of Fashion Marketing and Management
• Scopus — Source ID 22920
• Emerald Journal Finder
• Emerald Open Research and Open Access Information