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Business Ethics and Leadership

Business Ethics and Leadership is Scopus-indexed (Q1, CiteScore 3.9), ABDC C, DOAJ. Published by Academic Research and Publishing UG, Germany.

Checked against the index lists dated 4 October 2026.

ISSN 2520-6311Verify ISSN ↗2520-6761Verify ISSN ↗

Publisher: Academic Research and Publishing UG, Germany

Scopus · Q1ABDC COpen Access

3.9

CiteScore 2025

Scopus

Best quartile

rank 149 of 1162 · 87th pctile

ABDC rating

JQL 2025

Indexed in

major indexes

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ScopusElsevier Scopus

Status

Active

Coverage

2021–present

Source type

Journal

Open access

Yes

CiteScore

3.9

SJR · SCImago

0.260

Q2 SJR quartile

H-index

Best quartile

Q1 · 87th pctile

Subject area	Rank	Pctile	Q
Law	149 / 1162	87th	Q1
Gender Studies	42 / 233	82nd	Q1
Social Sciences (miscellaneous)	143 / 744	80th	Q1
Sociology and Political Science	314 / 1530	79th	Q1
Issues, Ethics and Legal Aspects	13 / 53	76th	Q1
Decision Sciences (miscellaneous)	13 / 46	72nd	Q2
Business, Management and Accounting (miscellaneous)	77 / 235	67th	Q2
Organizational Behavior and Human Resource Management	113 / 254	55th	Q2

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Listed in DOAJ

Open accessFully open access, peer reviewed

ABDCAustralian Business Deans Council 2025

Rating

Year of inception

2017

Field of research

Strategy, management and organisational behaviour (3507)

Publisher (per ABDC)

Academic Research and Publishing UG, Germany

C = a recognised quality journal in its field.

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Not listed in: Web of Science, ABS / AJG, FT50, UT Dallas, ONOS (subscription), ONOS (APC covered)

Quick answers

Is Business Ethics and Leadership indexed in Scopus?

Yes — actively indexed in Scopus, coverage 2021–present, best quartile Q1, CiteScore 3.9.

What quartile is Business Ethics and Leadership in Scopus?

Business Ethics and Leadership is Q1 in Law (rank 149 of 1162), Q1 in Gender Studies (rank 42 of 233) and Q1 in Social Sciences (miscellaneous) (rank 143 of 744), by CiteScore 2025. It is ranked in 8 subject areas in all.

What is the impact factor of Business Ethics and Leadership?

Business Ethics and Leadership 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 3.9, quartile Q1, 87th percentile. Any "impact factor" quoted elsewhere is not the Clarivate metric. Its SCImago Journal Rank (SJR, a free Scopus-based metric) is 0.260, quartile Q2, with an H-index of 14.

Who publishes Business Ethics and Leadership and what is its ISSN?

Business Ethics and Leadership is published by Academic Research and Publishing UG, Germany. Its print ISSN is 2520-6311 and its online ISSN is 2520-6761.

Is Business Ethics and Leadership in Web of Science?

No — it is not currently in the Web of Science core collections (SCIE, SSCI, AHCI or ESCI).

What is the ABDC rating of Business Ethics and Leadership?

It is rated C in the ABDC Journal Quality List 2025 under Strategy, management and organisational behaviour.

Is Business Ethics and Leadership open access?

Yes — it is an open-access journal, listed in DOAJ.

How well cited is Business Ethics and Leadership? — open metrics via OpenAlex

Business Ethics and Leadership has an h-index of 23 and a 2-year mean of 3.68 citations per paper (OpenAlex). Its Scopus CiteScore is 3.9, quartile Q1. On 2-year citations it ranks #33 of 1,057 Scopus journals in Law.

h-index

3.68

2-yr mean citations

115

i10-index

527

works indexed

3,354

total citations

2-yr mean citations, among Scopus journals in the same subject

#33 of 1,057 Top 4% Law

#5 of 225 Top 3% Gender Studies

#40 of 703 Top 6% Social Sciences (miscellaneous)

Papers published per year

Business Ethics and Leadership published 76 papers in 2025. 2026* is the year so far.

Main topics

Business and Economic DevelopmentEthics in Business and EducationEconomic Issues in UkraineCorporate Social Responsibility Reporting

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.

Who publishes in Business Ethics and Leadership? — latest 96 articles, 2025–2026

In its latest 96 research articles (2025–2026), authors are most often from Ukraine (17.4%), Indonesia (7.6%) and Slovakia (6.8%).

Countries are counted fractionally, so a paper by authors from two countries counts half to each.

Are there integrity warnings for Business Ethics and Leadership? — indicators, not proof of misconduct

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.

Scopus statusActive
Retracted papers None recorded
Problematic Paper Screener flags None flagged

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.

Official sources & links

Journal website ↗ Scopus source ↗ ABDC list ↗ DOAJ ↗ ISSN Portal · 2520-6311 ↗ISSN Portal · 2520-6761 ↗

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