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Business and Society Review is Scopus-indexed (Q1, CiteScore 4.7), ABDC C, WoS ESCI. It is covered by India's One Nation One Subscription scheme for reading access. Published by Wiley-Blackwell Publishing.
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ISSN 0045-3609Verify ISSN ↗1467-8594Verify ISSN ↗
Publisher: Wiley-Blackwell Publishing
Cost to publish: About US$2,900 to publish open access (publisher list price, via OpenAlex) — subscription publishing may be free
| Subject area | Rank | Pctile | Q |
|---|---|---|---|
| Sociology and Political Science | 243 / 1530 | 84th | Q1 |
| Industrial Relations | 18 / 61 | 71st | Q2 |
| Business and International Management | 181 / 456 | 60th | Q2 |
| Strategy and Management | 218 / 506 | 57th | Q2 |
Not listed in: DOAJ, ABS / AJG, FT50, UT Dallas, ONOS (APC covered)
Yes — actively indexed in Scopus, coverage 2007–present, best quartile Q1, CiteScore 4.7.
Business and Society Review is Q1 in Sociology and Political Science (rank 243 of 1530), Q2 in Industrial Relations (rank 18 of 61) and Q2 in Business and International Management (rank 181 of 456), by CiteScore 2025. It is ranked in 4 subject areas in all.
Business and Society Review 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 4.7, which places it in quartile Q1 at the 84th percentile of its subject. Its SCImago Journal Rank (SJR, a free Scopus-based metric) is 0.609, quartile Q2, with an H-index of 36.
The publisher lists an article processing charge of about US$2,900 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.
Business and Society Review is published by Wiley-Blackwell Publishing. Its print ISSN is 0045-3609 and its online ISSN is 1467-8594.
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.
Business and Society Review has an h-index of 58 and a 2-year mean of 2.19 citations per paper (OpenAlex). Its Scopus CiteScore is 4.7, quartile Q1. On 2-year citations it ranks #219 of 1,478 Scopus journals in Sociology and Political Science.
Business and Society Review published 43 papers in 2025; its busiest recent year was 2022 with 52. 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 (2024–2026), authors are most often from United States (22.4%), India (10.7%) and Germany (9.4%).
Countries are counted fractionally, so a paper by authors from two countries counts half to each.
Scopus status: Active. 3 retracted papers are recorded (3.1 per 1,000 papers). The Problematic Paper Screener flags 1 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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