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Banks and Bank Systems is Scopus-indexed (Q1, CiteScore 3.6), formerly ABDC C, ABS / AJG 1, WoS ESCI, DOAJ. Published by LLC CPC Business Perspectives.
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ISSN 1816-7403Verify ISSN ↗1991-7074Verify ISSN ↗
Publisher: LLC CPC Business Perspectives
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| Subject area | Rank | Pctile | Q |
|---|---|---|---|
| Law | 164 / 1162 | 85th | Q1 |
| Social Sciences (miscellaneous) | 163 / 744 | 78th | Q1 |
| Economics, Econometrics and Finance (miscellaneous) | 77 / 283 | 72nd | Q2 |
| Business, Management and Accounting (miscellaneous) | 84 / 235 | 64th | Q2 |
| Marketing | 123 / 221 | 44th | Q3 |
Not listed in: FT50, UT Dallas, ONOS (subscription), ONOS (APC covered)
Yes — actively indexed in Scopus, coverage 2006–present, best quartile Q1, CiteScore 3.6.
Banks and Bank Systems is Q1 in Law (rank 164 of 1162), Q1 in Social Sciences (miscellaneous) (rank 163 of 744) and Q2 in Economics, Econometrics and Finance (miscellaneous) (rank 77 of 283), by CiteScore 2025. It is ranked in 5 subject areas in all.
Banks and Bank Systems 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 3.6, which places it in quartile Q1 at the 85th percentile of its subject. Its SCImago Journal Rank (SJR, a free Scopus-based metric) is 0.283, quartile Q2, with an H-index of 27.
The publisher lists an article processing charge of about US$641 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.
Banks and Bank Systems is published by LLC CPC Business Perspectives. Its print ISSN is 1816-7403 and its online ISSN is 1991-7074.
Yes — indexed in the Emerging Sources Citation Index.
It was rated C in the 2022 ABDC list but is not in the current 2025 Journal Quality List.
It is graded 1 in the Chartered Association of Business Schools (ABS) Academic Journal Guide (AJG) 2024, in the Finance field.
Yes — it is an open-access journal, listed in DOAJ.
Banks and Bank Systems has an h-index of 33 and a 2-year mean of 3.81 citations per paper (OpenAlex). Its Scopus CiteScore is 3.6, quartile Q1. On 2-year citations it ranks #31 of 1,057 Scopus journals in Law.
Banks and Bank Systems published 85 papers in 2025; its busiest recent year was 2017 with 86. 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 95 research articles (2025–2026), authors are most often from Indonesia (23.9%), Vietnam (16.3%) and Jordan (13%).
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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