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Competitiveness Review is Scopus-indexed (Q1, CiteScore 11.1), ABDC C, ABS / AJG 1, WoS ESCI. It is covered by India's One Nation One Subscription scheme for reading access. Published by Emerald Group Publishing.
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ISSN 1059-5422Verify ISSN ↗2051-3143Verify ISSN ↗
Publisher: Emerald Group Publishing
Cost to publish: No APC data — check the publisher
| Subject area | Rank | Pctile | Q |
|---|---|---|---|
| Business, Management and Accounting (all) | 20 / 235 | 91st | Q1 |
Not listed in: DOAJ, FT50, UT Dallas, ONOS (APC covered)
Yes — actively indexed in Scopus, coverage 1996–present, best quartile Q1, CiteScore 11.1.
Competitiveness Review is Q1 in Business, Management and Accounting (all) (rank 20 of 235), by CiteScore 2025.
Competitiveness Review 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 11.1, which places it in quartile Q1 at the 91st percentile of its subject. Its SCImago Journal Rank (SJR, a free Scopus-based metric) is 0.860, quartile Q1, with an H-index of 49.
Competitiveness Review is published by Emerald Group Publishing. Its print ISSN is 1059-5422 and its online ISSN is 2051-3143.
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 Emerging Sources Citation Index.
It is rated C in the ABDC Journal Quality List 2025 under Strategy, management and organisational behaviour.
It is graded 1 in the Chartered Association of Business Schools (ABS) Academic Journal Guide (AJG) 2024, in the International Business and Area Studies field, unchanged from 2021.
No — it is not registered as an open-access journal in DOAJ or Scopus.
Competitiveness Review has an h-index of 60 and a 2-year mean of 3.69 citations per paper (OpenAlex). Its Scopus CiteScore is 11.1, quartile Q1. On 2-year citations it ranks #47 of 221 Scopus journals in Business, Management and Accounting (all).
Competitiveness Review published 60 papers in 2025; its busiest recent year was 2020 with 75. 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 99 research articles (2025–2026), authors are most often from India (10.1%), Spain (7.4%) and Italy (7%).
Countries are counted fractionally, so a paper by authors from two countries counts half to each.
Scopus status: Active. 1 retracted paper is recorded (0.9 per 1,000 papers). The Problematic Paper Screener flags 1 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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