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Business Process Management Journal is Scopus-indexed (Q1, CiteScore 9.8), ABDC B, ABS / AJG 2, WoS SSCI. It is covered by India's One Nation One Subscription scheme for reading access. Published by Emerald Group Publishing.
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ISSN 1463-7154Verify ISSN ↗1758-4116Verify ISSN ↗
Publisher: Emerald Group Publishing
Cost to publish: No APC data — check the publisher
| Subject area | Rank | Pctile | Q |
|---|---|---|---|
| Business, Management and Accounting (miscellaneous) | 19 / 235 | 92nd | Q1 |
| Business and International Management | 70 / 456 | 84th | Q1 |
Not listed in: DOAJ, FT50, UT Dallas, ONOS (APC covered)
Yes — actively indexed in Scopus, coverage 1997–present, best quartile Q1, CiteScore 9.8.
Business Process Management Journal is Q1 in Business, Management and Accounting (miscellaneous) (rank 19 of 235) and Q1 in Business and International Management (rank 70 of 456), by CiteScore 2025.
Business Process Management Journal 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 9.8, which places it in quartile Q1 at the 92nd percentile of its subject. Its SCImago Journal Rank (SJR, a free Scopus-based metric) is 1.149, quartile Q1, with an H-index of 108.
Business Process Management Journal is published by Emerald Group Publishing. Its print ISSN is 1463-7154 and its online ISSN is 1758-4116.
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 B in the ABDC Journal Quality List 2025 under Information systems.
It is graded 2 in the Chartered Association of Business Schools (ABS) Academic Journal Guide (AJG) 2024, in the Operations and Technology Management field, unchanged from 2021.
No — it is not registered as an open-access journal in DOAJ or Scopus.
Business Process Management Journal has an h-index of 130 and a 2-year mean of 7.37 citations per paper (OpenAlex). Its Scopus CiteScore is 9.8, quartile Q1. On 2-year citations it ranks #10 of 224 Scopus journals in Business, Management and Accounting (miscellaneous).
Business Process Management Journal published 165 papers in 2025; its busiest recent year was 2024 with 203. 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 (2025–2026), authors are most often from China (25.9%), United States (6.4%) and India (4.9%).
Countries are counted fractionally, so a paper by authors from two countries counts half to each.
Scopus status: Active. 48 retracted papers are recorded (24.7 per 1,000 papers). The Problematic Paper Screener flags 7 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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