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Asian Journal of Business Research is Scopus-indexed (Q2, CiteScore 2.6), ABDC C. Published by Asia Business Research Corporation Limited.
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ISSN 1178-8933Verify ISSN ↗2463-4522Verify ISSN ↗
Publisher: Asia Business Research Corporation Limited
Cost to publish: No APC data — check the publisher
| Subject area | Rank | Pctile | Q |
|---|---|---|---|
| Political Science and International Relations | 219 / 745 | 70th | Q2 |
| Sociology and Political Science | 492 / 1530 | 67th | Q2 |
| Business and International Management | 257 / 456 | 43rd | Q3 |
| Strategy and Management | 298 / 506 | 41st | Q3 |
| Marketing | 142 / 221 | 35th | Q3 |
Not listed in: Web of Science, DOAJ, ABS / AJG, FT50, UT Dallas, ONOS (subscription), ONOS (APC covered)
Yes — actively indexed in Scopus, coverage 2018–present, best quartile Q2, CiteScore 2.6.
Asian Journal of Business Research is Q2 in Political Science and International Relations (rank 219 of 745), Q2 in Sociology and Political Science (rank 492 of 1530) and Q3 in Business and International Management (rank 257 of 456), by CiteScore 2025. It is ranked in 5 subject areas in all.
Asian Journal of Business 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 2.6, quartile Q2, 70th percentile. Any "impact factor" quoted elsewhere is not the Clarivate metric. Its SCImago Journal Rank (SJR, a free Scopus-based metric) is 0.324, quartile Q2, with an H-index of 18.
Asian Journal of Business Research is published by Asia Business Research Corporation Limited. Its print ISSN is 1178-8933 and its online ISSN is 2463-4522.
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 Marketing.
No — it is not registered as an open-access journal in DOAJ or Scopus.
Asian Journal of Business Research has an h-index of 28 and a 2-year mean of 2.58 citations per paper (OpenAlex). Its Scopus CiteScore is 2.6, quartile Q2. On 2-year citations it ranks #76 of 704 Scopus journals in Political Science and International Relations.
Asian Journal of Business Research published 32 papers in 2025; its busiest recent year was 2020 with 35. 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 57 research articles (2022–2026), authors are most often from Indonesia (20.4%), Malaysia (18.6%) and Vietnam (13.1%).
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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