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African Journal of Business and Economic Research is Scopus-indexed (Q4, CiteScore 0.6), ABDC C. Published by Adonis and Abbey Publishers Ltd.
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ISSN 1750-4554Verify ISSN ↗1750-4562Verify ISSN ↗
Publisher: Adonis and Abbey Publishers Ltd
Cost to publish: No APC data — check the publisher
| Subject area | Rank | Pctile | Q |
|---|---|---|---|
| Business and International Management | 407 / 456 | 10th | Q4 |
| Economics and Econometrics | 688 / 755 | 8th | Q4 |
Not listed in: Web of Science, DOAJ, ABS / AJG, FT50, UT Dallas, ONOS (subscription), ONOS (APC covered)
Yes — actively indexed in Scopus, coverage 2006–present, best quartile Q4, CiteScore 0.6.
African Journal of Business and Economic Research is Q4 in Business and International Management (rank 407 of 456) and Q4 in Economics and Econometrics (rank 688 of 755), by CiteScore 2025.
African Journal of Business and Economic Research is not in the Web of Science Core Collection (SCIE, SSCI, AHCI or ESCI), so Clarivate publishes no Journal Impact Factor for it. Its Scopus CiteScore is 0.6, quartile Q4, 10th percentile. Any "impact factor" quoted elsewhere is not the Clarivate metric. Its SCImago Journal Rank (SJR, a free Scopus-based metric) is 0.140, quartile Q4, with an H-index of 13.
African Journal of Business and Economic Research is published by Adonis and Abbey Publishers Ltd. Its print ISSN is 1750-4554 and its online ISSN is 1750-4562.
No — it is not currently in the Web of Science core collections (SCIE, SSCI, AHCI or ESCI).
It is rated C in the ABDC Journal Quality List 2025 under Applied economics.
No — it is not registered as an open-access journal in DOAJ or Scopus.
African Journal of Business and Economic Research has an h-index of 18 and a 2-year mean of 0.4 citations per paper (OpenAlex). Its Scopus CiteScore is 0.6, quartile Q4. On 2-year citations it ranks #362 of 424 Scopus journals in Business and International Management.
African Journal of Business and Economic Research published 65 papers in 2025; its busiest recent year was 2022 with 70. 2026* is the year so far.
h-index, i10-index and 2-year mean citedness are open, licence-clear metrics from OpenAlex — not a proprietary impact factor. The subject rank counts only journals that OpenAlex has a figure for; it is not a Scopus or Clarivate ranking. Updated 2026-10-14.
In its latest 20 research articles (2025–2026), authors are most often from United States (100%). More than half of recent authorship comes from one country.
Countries are counted fractionally, so a paper by authors from two countries counts half to each.
Scopus status: Active. No retracted papers are recorded. The Problematic Paper Screener flags none of its papers. These are indicators to check, not findings against the journal.
Retractions from OpenAlex; flags from the Problematic Paper Screener (Cabanac, Labbé & Magazinov, CC BY), 2026-09-21 export. A flag marks a paper for a closer look; it is not a finding against the journal.
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