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Digital Business is Scopus-indexed (Q1, CiteScore 14.4), ABDC C, WoS ESCI, DOAJ. Published by Elsevier.
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ISSN 2666-9544Verify ISSN ↗
Publisher: Elsevier
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| Subject area | Rank | Pctile | Q |
|---|---|---|---|
| Business, Management and Accounting (miscellaneous) | 5 / 235 | 98th | Q1 |
| Business and International Management | 31 / 456 | 93rd | Q1 |
Not listed in: ABS / AJG, FT50, UT Dallas, ONOS (subscription), ONOS (APC covered)
Yes — actively indexed in Scopus, coverage 2020–present, best quartile Q1, CiteScore 14.4.
Digital Business is Q1 in Business, Management and Accounting (miscellaneous) (rank 5 of 235) and Q1 in Business and International Management (rank 31 of 456), by CiteScore 2025.
Digital Business 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 14.4, which places it in quartile Q1 at the 98th percentile of its subject. Its SCImago Journal Rank (SJR, a free Scopus-based metric) is 1.445, quartile Q1, with an H-index of 27.
The publisher lists an article processing charge of about US$1,630 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.
Digital Business is published by Elsevier. Its ISSN is 2666-9544.
Yes — indexed in the Emerging Sources Citation Index.
It is rated C in the ABDC Journal Quality List 2025 under Information systems.
Yes — it is an open-access journal, listed in DOAJ.
Digital Business has an h-index of 35 and a 2-year mean of 9.65 citations per paper (OpenAlex). Its Scopus CiteScore is 14.4, quartile Q1. On 2-year citations it ranks #4 of 224 Scopus journals in Business, Management and Accounting (miscellaneous).
Digital Business published 59 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 94 research articles (2024–2026), authors are most often from Germany (8%), Indonesia (7.4%) and Thailand (6.6%).
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 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.
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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