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BRQ Business Research Quarterly is Scopus-indexed (Q1, CiteScore 10.4), ABDC B, ABS / AJG 2, WoS SSCI, DOAJ. Published by Asociacion Cientifica de Economia y Direccion de la Empresa.
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ISSN 2340-9436Verify ISSN ↗2340-9444Verify ISSN ↗
Publisher: Asociacion Cientifica de Economia y Direccion de la Empresa
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| Subject area | Rank | Pctile | Q |
|---|---|---|---|
| Economics and Econometrics | 54 / 755 | 92nd | Q1 |
| Business, Management and Accounting (all) | 24 / 235 | 90th | Q1 |
| Business and International Management | 61 / 456 | 86th | Q1 |
| Strategy and Management | 86 / 506 | 83rd | Q1 |
Not listed in: FT50, UT Dallas, ONOS (subscription), ONOS (APC covered)
Yes — actively indexed in Scopus, coverage 2014–present, best quartile Q1, CiteScore 10.4.
BRQ Business Research Quarterly is Q1 in Economics and Econometrics (rank 54 of 755), Q1 in Business, Management and Accounting (all) (rank 24 of 235) and Q1 in Business and International Management (rank 61 of 456), by CiteScore 2025. It is ranked in 4 subject areas in all.
BRQ Business Research Quarterly is indexed in the Social Sciences 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 10.4, which places it in quartile Q1 at the 92nd percentile of its subject. Its SCImago Journal Rank (SJR, a free Scopus-based metric) is 1.477, quartile Q1, with an H-index of 51.
No article processing charge is recorded for it (source: OpenAlex). Confirm on the journal's own website, since some journals charge for extras such as colour figures.
BRQ Business Research Quarterly is published by Asociacion Cientifica de Economia y Direccion de la Empresa. Its print ISSN is 2340-9436 and its online ISSN is 2340-9444.
Yes — indexed in the Social Sciences Citation Index.
It is rated B in the ABDC Journal Quality List 2025 under Strategy, management and organisational behaviour.
It is graded 2 in the Chartered Association of Business Schools (ABS) Academic Journal Guide (AJG) 2024, in the Ethics, Corporate Social Responsibility and Management field, unchanged from 2021.
Yes — it is an open-access journal, listed in DOAJ.
BRQ Business Research Quarterly has an h-index of 63 and a 2-year mean of 4.82 citations per paper (OpenAlex). Its Scopus CiteScore is 10.4, quartile Q1. On 2-year citations it ranks #91 of 744 Scopus journals in Economics and Econometrics.
BRQ Business Research Quarterly published 16 papers in 2025; its busiest recent year was 2020 with 56. 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 99 research articles (2021–2026), authors are most often from Spain (33.2%), United States (11.6%) and China (4.9%).
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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