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Business: Theory and Practice is Scopus-indexed (Q2, CiteScore 3.6), DOAJ. Published by Vilnius Gediminas Technical University.
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ISSN 1648-0627Verify ISSN ↗1822-4202Verify ISSN ↗
Publisher: Vilnius Gediminas Technical University
Cost to publish: Checking DOAJ for article charges…
| Subject area | Rank | Pctile | Q |
|---|---|---|---|
| Strategy and Management | 253 / 506 | 50th | Q2 |
Not listed in: Web of Science, ABDC, ABS / AJG, FT50, UT Dallas, ONOS (subscription), ONOS (APC covered)
Yes — actively indexed in Scopus, coverage 2005–present, best quartile Q2, CiteScore 3.6.
Business: Theory and Practice is Q2 in Strategy and Management (rank 253 of 506), by CiteScore 2025.
Business: Theory and Practice 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 3.6, quartile Q2, 50th percentile. Any "impact factor" quoted elsewhere is not the Clarivate metric. Its SCImago Journal Rank (SJR, a free Scopus-based metric) is 0.265, quartile Q3, with an H-index of 35.
The publisher lists an article processing charge of about US$323 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: Theory and Practice is published by Vilnius Gediminas Technical University. Its print ISSN is 1648-0627 and its online ISSN is 1822-4202.
No — it is not currently in the Web of Science core collections (SCIE, SSCI, AHCI or ESCI).
Yes — it is an open-access journal, listed in DOAJ.
Business: Theory and Practice has an h-index of 43 and a 2-year mean of 2.29 citations per paper (OpenAlex). Its Scopus CiteScore is 3.6, quartile Q2. On 2-year citations it ranks #216 of 476 Scopus journals in Strategy and Management.
Business: Theory and Practice published 37 papers in 2025; its busiest recent year was 2020 with 85. 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 (2024–2026), authors are most often from Indonesia (30.7%), Lithuania (22.9%) and Ukraine (6%).
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 2 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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