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Asian Journal of Business Ethics is Scopus-indexed (Q1, CiteScore 5.9), ABDC C, WoS ESCI. It is covered by India's One Nation One Subscription scheme for reading access. Published by Springer International Publishing.
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ISSN 2210-6723Verify ISSN ↗2210-6731Verify ISSN ↗
Publisher: Springer International Publishing
Cost to publish: About US$3,390 to publish open access (publisher list price, via OpenAlex) — subscription publishing may be free
| Subject area | Rank | Pctile | Q |
|---|---|---|---|
| Philosophy | 20 / 891 | 97th | Q1 |
| Social Sciences (miscellaneous) | 69 / 744 | 90th | Q1 |
| Economics, Econometrics and Finance (miscellaneous) | 41 / 283 | 85th | Q1 |
| Business, Management and Accounting (all) | 66 / 235 | 72nd | Q2 |
Not listed in: DOAJ, ABS / AJG, FT50, UT Dallas, ONOS (APC covered)
Yes — actively indexed in Scopus, coverage 2012–present, best quartile Q1, CiteScore 5.9.
Asian Journal of Business Ethics is Q1 in Philosophy (rank 20 of 891), Q1 in Social Sciences (miscellaneous) (rank 69 of 744) and Q1 in Economics, Econometrics and Finance (miscellaneous) (rank 41 of 283), by CiteScore 2025. It is ranked in 4 subject areas in all.
Asian Journal of Business Ethics 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 5.9, which places it in quartile Q1 at the 97th percentile of its subject. Its SCImago Journal Rank (SJR, a free Scopus-based metric) is 0.476, quartile Q1, with an H-index of 19.
The publisher lists an article processing charge of about US$3,390 for open access (source: OpenAlex). Many journals also publish by the subscription route at no cost to the author, so confirm on the journal's own website.
Asian Journal of Business Ethics is published by Springer International Publishing. Its print ISSN is 2210-6723 and its online ISSN is 2210-6731.
Yes. It is part of the One Nation One Subscription (ONOS) national subscription, so readers at participating Indian institutions get its full text. ONOS does not cover its article processing charge.
Yes — indexed in the Emerging Sources Citation Index.
It is rated C in the ABDC Journal Quality List 2025 under Strategy, management and organisational behaviour.
No — it is not registered as an open-access journal in DOAJ or Scopus.
Asian Journal of Business Ethics has an h-index of 27 and a 2-year mean of 2 citations per paper (OpenAlex). Its Scopus CiteScore is 5.9, quartile Q1. On 2-year citations it ranks #39 of 805 Scopus journals in Philosophy.
Asian Journal of Business Ethics published 17 papers in 2025; its busiest recent year was 2024 with 41. 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 98 research articles (2022–2026), authors are most often from India (19.9%), Malaysia (10.7%) and United States (8.7%).
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.
Index data is curated from public sources (Scopus, Web of Science, ABDC, FT50, UT Dallas, DOAJ). CiteScore and quartiles reflect the latest available Scopus release. Always verify a journal's current status on its official source before submitting.
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