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Business and Professional Ethics Journal is Scopus-indexed (Q1, CiteScore 1.3), ABDC C, ABS / AJG 1, WoS ESCI. Published by Institute for Business and Professional Ethics, DePaul University.
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ISSN 0277-2027Verify ISSN ↗2153-7828Verify ISSN ↗
Publisher: Institute for Business and Professional Ethics, DePaul University
Cost to publish: No APC data — check the publisher
| Subject area | Rank | Pctile | Q |
|---|---|---|---|
| Philosophy | 204 / 891 | 77th | Q1 |
| Economics and Econometrics | 561 / 755 | 25th | Q3 |
| Business and International Management | 367 / 456 | 19th | Q4 |
Not listed in: DOAJ, FT50, UT Dallas, ONOS (subscription), ONOS (APC covered)
Yes — actively indexed in Scopus, coverage 2018–present (also 2012, 2001, 1998–1999, 1996, 1990–1993, 1985, 1979), best quartile Q1, CiteScore 1.3.
Business and Professional Ethics Journal is Q1 in Philosophy (rank 204 of 891), Q3 in Economics and Econometrics (rank 561 of 755) and Q4 in Business and International Management (rank 367 of 456), by CiteScore 2025.
Business and Professional Ethics Journal 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 1.3, which places it in quartile Q1 at the 77th percentile of its subject. Its SCImago Journal Rank (SJR, a free Scopus-based metric) is 0.169, quartile Q2, with an H-index of 7.
Business and Professional Ethics Journal is published by Institute for Business and Professional Ethics, DePaul University. Its print ISSN is 0277-2027 and its online ISSN is 2153-7828.
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.
It is graded 1 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.
No — it is not registered as an open-access journal in DOAJ or Scopus.
Business and Professional Ethics Journal has an h-index of 31 and a 2-year mean of 0.07 citations per paper (OpenAlex). Its Scopus CiteScore is 1.3, quartile Q1. On 2-year citations it ranks #602 of 805 Scopus journals in Philosophy.
Business and Professional Ethics Journal published 22 papers in 2025; its busiest recent year was 2022 with 30. 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.
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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