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Business Ethics Quarterly is Scopus-indexed (Q1, CiteScore 7.5), ABDC A, ABS / AJG 3, WoS SSCI. It is covered by India's One Nation One Subscription scheme for reading access. Published by Cambridge University Press.
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ISSN 1052-150XVerify ISSN ↗2153-3326Verify ISSN ↗
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Cost to publish: About US$3,550 to publish open access (publisher list price, via OpenAlex) — subscription publishing may be free
| Subject area | Rank | Pctile | Q |
|---|---|---|---|
| Philosophy | 13 / 891 | 98th | Q1 |
| Economics and Econometrics | 115 / 755 | 84th | Q1 |
| Business, Management and Accounting (all) | 48 / 235 | 79th | Q1 |
Not listed in: DOAJ, FT50, UT Dallas, ONOS (APC covered)
Yes — actively indexed in Scopus, coverage 1996–present (also 1993), best quartile Q1, CiteScore 7.5.
Business Ethics Quarterly is Q1 in Philosophy (rank 13 of 891), Q1 in Economics and Econometrics (rank 115 of 755) and Q1 in Business, Management and Accounting (all) (rank 48 of 235), by CiteScore 2025.
Business Ethics 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 7.5, which places it in quartile Q1 at the 98th percentile of its subject. Its SCImago Journal Rank (SJR, a free Scopus-based metric) is 1.834, quartile Q1, with an H-index of 103.
The publisher lists an article processing charge of about US$3,550 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 Ethics Quarterly is published by Cambridge University Press. Its print ISSN is 1052-150X and its online ISSN is 2153-3326.
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 Social Sciences Citation Index.
It is rated A in the ABDC Journal Quality List 2025 under Strategy, management and organisational behaviour.
It is graded 3 in the Chartered Association of Business Schools (ABS) Academic Journal Guide (AJG) 2024, in the Ethics, Corporate Social Responsibility and Management field (down from 4 in 2021).
No — it is not registered as an open-access journal in DOAJ or Scopus.
Business Ethics Quarterly has an h-index of 130 and a 2-year mean of 1.75 citations per paper (OpenAlex). Its Scopus CiteScore is 7.5, quartile Q1. On 2-year citations it ranks #59 of 805 Scopus journals in Philosophy.
Business Ethics Quarterly published 42 papers in 2025; its busiest recent year was 2017 with 54. 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 75 research articles (2023–2026), authors are most often from United States (31.9%), United Kingdom (18.6%) and Denmark (7.8%).
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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