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Business Ethics, the Environment and Responsibility is Scopus-indexed (Q1, CiteScore 9.1), ABS / AJG 2, WoS SSCI. It is covered by India's One Nation One Subscription scheme for reading access. Published by John Wiley and Sons Inc.
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ISSN 2694-6416Verify ISSN ↗2694-6424Verify ISSN ↗
Publisher: John Wiley and Sons Inc
Cost to publish: About US$3,450 to publish open access (publisher list price, via OpenAlex) — subscription publishing may be free
| Subject area | Rank | Pctile | Q |
|---|---|---|---|
| Philosophy | 7 / 891 | 99th | Q1 |
| Economics and Econometrics | 73 / 755 | 90th | Q1 |
| Management, Monitoring, Policy and Law | 58 / 432 | 86th | Q1 |
| Organizational Behavior and Human Resource Management | 39 / 254 | 84th | Q1 |
| Business and International Management | 82 / 456 | 82nd | Q1 |
Not listed in: DOAJ, ABDC, FT50, UT Dallas, ONOS (APC covered)
Yes — actively indexed in Scopus, coverage 2021–present, best quartile Q1, CiteScore 9.1.
Business Ethics, the Environment and Responsibility is Q1 in Philosophy (rank 7 of 891), Q1 in Economics and Econometrics (rank 73 of 755) and Q1 in Management, Monitoring, Policy and Law (rank 58 of 432), by CiteScore 2025. It is ranked in 5 subject areas in all.
Business Ethics, the Environment and Responsibility 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 9.1, which places it in quartile Q1 at the 99th percentile of its subject. Its SCImago Journal Rank (SJR, a free Scopus-based metric) is 1.192, quartile Q1, with an H-index of 61.
The publisher lists an article processing charge of about US$3,450 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, the Environment and Responsibility is published by John Wiley and Sons Inc. Its print ISSN is 2694-6416 and its online ISSN is 2694-6424.
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 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.
No — it is not registered as an open-access journal in DOAJ or Scopus.
Business Ethics, the Environment and Responsibility has an h-index of 40 and a 2-year mean of 5.03 citations per paper (OpenAlex). Its Scopus CiteScore is 9.1, quartile Q1. On 2-year citations it ranks #5 of 805 Scopus journals in Philosophy.
Business Ethics, the Environment and Responsibility published 161 papers in 2025. 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 100 research articles (2025–2026), authors are most often from China (35.1%), Italy (7.3%) and Spain (6.1%).
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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