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Annals of Corporate Governance is Scopus-indexed (Q1, CiteScore 2.6), ABS / AJG 2, WoS ESCI. Published by Now Publishers Inc.
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ISSN 2381-6724Verify ISSN ↗2381-6732Verify ISSN ↗
Publisher: Now Publishers Inc
Cost to publish: No APC data — check the publisher
| Subject area | Rank | Pctile | Q |
|---|---|---|---|
| Law | 279 / 1162 | 76th | Q1 |
| Business, Management and Accounting (miscellaneous) | 116 / 235 | 50th | Q2 |
| Finance | 172 / 342 | 49th | Q3 |
Not listed in: DOAJ, ABDC, FT50, UT Dallas, ONOS (subscription), ONOS (APC covered)
Yes — actively indexed in Scopus, coverage 2019–2025, best quartile Q1, CiteScore 2.6.
Annals of Corporate Governance is Q1 in Law (rank 279 of 1162), Q2 in Business, Management and Accounting (miscellaneous) (rank 116 of 235) and Q3 in Finance (rank 172 of 342), by CiteScore 2025.
Annals of Corporate Governance is indexed in the Emerging Sources Citation Index, so it may have a Journal Impact Factor in Clarivate's Journal Citation Reports. JCR is paid, so check it for the current value. The closest free measure is its Scopus CiteScore 2.6, which places it in quartile Q1 at the 76th percentile of its subject. Its SCImago Journal Rank (SJR, a free Scopus-based metric) is 0.412, quartile Q2, with an H-index of 6.
Annals of Corporate Governance is published by Now Publishers Inc. Its print ISSN is 2381-6724 and its online ISSN is 2381-6732.
Yes — indexed in the Emerging Sources Citation Index.
It is graded 2 in the Chartered Association of Business Schools (ABS) Academic Journal Guide (AJG) 2024, in the Finance field.
No — it is not registered as an open-access journal in DOAJ or Scopus.
Annals of Corporate Governance has an h-index of 9 and a 2-year mean of 2 citations per paper (OpenAlex). Its Scopus CiteScore is 2.6, quartile Q1. On 2-year citations it ranks #119 of 1,057 Scopus journals in Law.
Annals of Corporate Governance published 5 papers in 2025; its busiest recent year was 2019 with 7. 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 15 research articles (2021–2026), authors are most often from United Kingdom (20.6%), United States (18.3%) and Germany (12.2%).
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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