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Business Strategy and the Environment is Scopus-indexed (Q1, CiteScore 23.8), ABDC A, ABS / AJG 3, WoS SSCI. It is covered by India's One Nation One Subscription scheme for reading access. Published by Wiley-Blackwell Publishing.
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ISSN 0964-4733Verify ISSN ↗1099-0836Verify ISSN ↗
Publisher: Wiley-Blackwell Publishing
Cost to publish: About US$4,480 to publish open access (publisher list price, via OpenAlex) — subscription publishing may be free
| Subject area | Rank | Pctile | Q |
|---|---|---|---|
| Geography, Planning and Development | 2 / 876 | 99th | Q1 |
| Management, Monitoring, Policy and Law | 4 / 432 | 99th | Q1 |
| Strategy and Management | 6 / 506 | 98th | Q1 |
| Business and International Management | 6 / 456 | 98th | Q1 |
Not listed in: DOAJ, FT50, UT Dallas, ONOS (APC covered)
Yes — actively indexed in Scopus, coverage 1992–present, best quartile Q1, CiteScore 23.8.
Business Strategy and the Environment is Q1 in Geography, Planning and Development (rank 2 of 876), Q1 in Management, Monitoring, Policy and Law (rank 4 of 432) and Q1 in Strategy and Management (rank 6 of 506), by CiteScore 2025. It is ranked in 4 subject areas in all.
Business Strategy and the Environment 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 23.8, which places it in quartile Q1 at the 99th percentile of its subject. Its SCImago Journal Rank (SJR, a free Scopus-based metric) is 3.678, quartile Q1, with an H-index of 199.
The publisher lists an article processing charge of about US$4,480 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 Strategy and the Environment is published by Wiley-Blackwell Publishing. Its print ISSN is 0964-4733 and its online ISSN is 1099-0836.
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 Social Sciences field, unchanged from 2021.
No — it is not registered as an open-access journal in DOAJ or Scopus.
Business Strategy and the Environment has an h-index of 241 and a 2-year mean of 8.56 citations per paper (OpenAlex). Its Scopus CiteScore is 23.8, quartile Q1. On 2-year citations it ranks #9 of 825 Scopus journals in Geography, Planning and Development.
Business Strategy and the Environment published 774 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 (2026), authors are most often from Italy (10.3%), China (9.1%) and Spain (8.5%).
Countries are counted fractionally, so a paper by authors from two countries counts half to each.
Scopus status: Active. 10 retracted papers are recorded (1.9 per 1,000 papers). The Problematic Paper Screener flags 4 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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