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Economics and Business Letters is Scopus-indexed (Q3, CiteScore 1.5), ABS / AJG 1, WoS ESCI. Published by Oviedo University Press.
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ISSN 2254-4380Verify ISSN ↗
Publisher: Oviedo University Press
Cost to publish: No APC data — check the publisher
| Subject area | Rank | Pctile | Q |
|---|---|---|---|
| Economics, Econometrics and Finance (all) | 155 / 289 | 46th | Q3 |
| Business and International Management | 347 / 456 | 24th | Q4 |
Not listed in: DOAJ, ABDC, FT50, UT Dallas, ONOS (subscription), ONOS (APC covered)
Yes — actively indexed in Scopus, coverage 2017–present, best quartile Q3, CiteScore 1.5.
Economics and Business Letters is Q3 in Economics, Econometrics and Finance (all) (rank 155 of 289) and Q4 in Business and International Management (rank 347 of 456), by CiteScore 2025.
Economics and Business Letters 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 1.5, which places it in quartile Q3 at the 46th percentile of its subject. Its SCImago Journal Rank (SJR, a free Scopus-based metric) is 0.265, quartile Q3, with an H-index of 14.
Economics and Business Letters is published by Oviedo University Press. Its ISSN is 2254-4380.
Yes — indexed in the Emerging Sources Citation Index.
It is graded 1 in the Chartered Association of Business Schools (ABS) Academic Journal Guide (AJG) 2024, in the Economics, Econometrics and Statistics field, unchanged from 2021.
No — it is not registered as an open-access journal in DOAJ or Scopus.
Economics and Business Letters has an h-index of 21 and a 2-year mean of 0.79 citations per paper (OpenAlex). Its Scopus CiteScore is 1.5, quartile Q3. On 2-year citations it ranks #161 of 269 Scopus journals in Economics, Econometrics and Finance (all).
Economics and Business Letters published 25 papers in 2025; its busiest recent year was 2021 with 50. 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 97 research articles (2022–2026), authors are most often from Spain (18.2%), Greece (13.9%) and Vietnam (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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