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Is Cogent Business and Management indexed in Scopus?
Yes — actively indexed in Scopus, coverage 2014–present, best quartile Q1, CiteScore 6.5.
What quartile is Cogent Business and Management in Scopus?
Cogent Business and Management is Q1 in Business, Management and Accounting (miscellaneous) (rank 39 of 235), Q1 in Accounting (rank 47 of 191) and Q2 in Organizational Behavior and Human Resource Management (rank 66 of 254), by CiteScore 2025. It is ranked in 7 subject areas in all.
What is the impact factor of Cogent Business and Management?
Cogent Business and Management is indexed in the Emerging Sources 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 6.5, which places it in quartile Q1 at the 83rd percentile of its subject. Its SCImago Journal Rank (SJR, a free Scopus-based metric) is 0.647, quartile Q2, with an H-index of 68.
How much does it cost to publish in Cogent Business and Management?
The publisher lists an article processing charge of about US$1,165 for open access (source: OpenAlex). Many journals also publish by the subscription route at no cost to the author, so confirm on the journal's own website.
Who publishes Cogent Business and Management and what is its ISSN?
Cogent Business and Management is published by Talyor & Francis Group. Its ISSN is 2331-1975.
Is Cogent Business and Management in Web of Science?
Yes — indexed in the Emerging Sources Citation Index.
What is the ABDC rating of Cogent Business and Management?
It is rated C in the ABDC Journal Quality List 2025 under Strategy, management and organisational behaviour.
What is the ABS / AJG rating of Cogent Business and Management?
It is graded 1 in the Chartered Association of Business Schools (ABS) Academic Journal Guide (AJG) 2024, in the Ethics, Corporate Social Responsibility and Management field, unchanged from 2021.
Is Cogent Business and Management open access?
Yes — it is an open-access journal, listed in DOAJ.
How well cited is Cogent Business and Management? — open metrics via OpenAlex
Cogent Business and Management has an h-index of 92 and a 2-year mean of 7.04 citations per paper (OpenAlex). Its Scopus CiteScore is 6.5, quartile Q1. On 2-year citations it ranks #12 of 224 Scopus journals in Business, Management and Accounting (miscellaneous).
92
h-index
7.04
2-yr mean citations
1,836
i10-index
4,027
works indexed
69,010
total citations
Publication fee · open access list price, US$
US$1,165
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2-yr mean citations, among Scopus journals in the same subject
#12 of 224Top 6%Business, Management and Accounting (miscellaneous)
#13 of 183Top 8%Accounting
#16 of 250Top 7%Organizational Behavior and Human Resource Management
Papers published per year
Cogent Business and Management published 580 papers in 2025; its busiest recent year was 2024 with 893. 2026* is the year so far.
Main topics
Corporate Finance and GovernanceDigital Marketing and Social MediaTechnology Adoption and User BehaviourEnvironmental Sustainability in Business
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.
Who publishes in Cogent Business and Management? — latest 98 articles, 2026
In its latest 98 research articles (2026), authors are most often from Indonesia (16.5%), India (14.3%) and Thailand (6.8%).
Countries are counted fractionally, so a paper by authors from two countries counts half to each.
Are there integrity warnings for Cogent Business and Management? — indicators, not proof of misconduct
Scopus status: Active. 2 retracted papers are recorded (0.5 per 1,000 papers). The Problematic Paper Screener flags 8 of its papers. These are indicators to check, not findings against the journal.
Scopus statusActive
Retracted papers2 · 0.5 per 1,000 papers
Problematic Paper Screener flags8 · 2 per 1,000 papers — mostly tortured phrases and hijacked 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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