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Competition and Regulation in Network Industries is Scopus-indexed (Q2, CiteScore 4), ABDC B. It is covered by India's One Nation One Subscription scheme for reading access. Published by Sage Publications.
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ISSN 1783-5917Verify ISSN ↗2399-2956Verify ISSN ↗
Publisher: Sage Publications
Cost to publish: About US$3,400 to publish open access (publisher list price, via OpenAlex) — subscription publishing may be free
| Subject area | Rank | Pctile | Q |
|---|---|---|---|
| Business, Management and Accounting (all) | 102 / 235 | 56th | Q2 |
| Management Science and Operations Research | 102 / 225 | 54th | Q2 |
Not listed in: Web of Science, DOAJ, ABS / AJG, FT50, UT Dallas, ONOS (APC covered)
Yes — actively indexed in Scopus, coverage 2026 (also 2013–2024), best quartile Q2, CiteScore 4.
Competition and Regulation in Network Industries is Q2 in Business, Management and Accounting (all) (rank 102 of 235) and Q2 in Management Science and Operations Research (rank 102 of 225), by CiteScore 2025.
Competition and Regulation in Network Industries 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 4, quartile Q2, 56th percentile. Any "impact factor" quoted elsewhere is not the Clarivate metric. Its SCImago Journal Rank (SJR, a free Scopus-based metric) is 0.335, quartile Q3, with an H-index of 16.
The publisher lists an article processing charge of about US$3,400 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.
Competition and Regulation in Network Industries is published by Sage Publications. Its print ISSN is 1783-5917 and its online ISSN is 2399-2956.
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.
No — it is not currently in the Web of Science core collections (SCIE, SSCI, AHCI or ESCI).
It is rated B in the ABDC Journal Quality List 2025 under Applied economics.
No — it is not registered as an open-access journal in DOAJ or Scopus.
Competition and Regulation in Network Industries has an h-index of 25 and a 2-year mean of 0.41 citations per paper (OpenAlex). Its Scopus CiteScore is 4, quartile Q2. On 2-year citations it ranks #184 of 221 Scopus journals in Business, Management and Accounting (all).
Competition and Regulation in Network Industries published 10 papers in 2024; its busiest recent year was 2019 with 28. 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 53 research articles (2021–2026), authors are most often from India (19.8%), Germany (8.5%) and Italy (8.2%).
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.
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