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Entrepreneurship Theory and Practice is Scopus-indexed (Q1, CiteScore 21.9), ABDC A*, ABS / AJG 4*, WoS SSCI, FT50. It is covered by India's One Nation One Subscription scheme for reading access. Published by Sage Publications.
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ISSN 1042-2587Verify ISSN ↗1540-6520Verify ISSN ↗
Publisher: Sage Publications
Cost to publish: About US$3,900 to publish open access (publisher list price, via OpenAlex) — subscription publishing may be free
| Subject area | Rank | Pctile | Q |
|---|---|---|---|
| Economics and Econometrics | 6 / 755 | 99th | Q1 |
| Business and International Management | 9 / 456 | 98th | Q1 |
Not listed in: DOAJ, UT Dallas, ONOS (APC covered)
Yes — actively indexed in Scopus, coverage 2004–present, best quartile Q1, CiteScore 21.9.
Entrepreneurship Theory and Practice is Q1 in Economics and Econometrics (rank 6 of 755) and Q1 in Business and International Management (rank 9 of 456), by CiteScore 2025.
Entrepreneurship Theory and Practice is indexed in the Social Sciences 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 21.9, which places it in quartile Q1 at the 99th percentile of its subject. Its SCImago Journal Rank (SJR, a free Scopus-based metric) is 5.670, quartile Q1, with an H-index of 224.
The publisher lists an article processing charge of about US$3,900 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.
Entrepreneurship Theory and Practice is published by Sage Publications. Its print ISSN is 1042-2587 and its online ISSN is 1540-6520.
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 Social Sciences Citation Index.
It is rated A* in the ABDC Journal Quality List 2025 under Strategy, management and organisational behaviour.
It is graded 4* in the Chartered Association of Business Schools (ABS) Academic Journal Guide (AJG) 2024, in the Entrepreneurship and Small Business Management field (up from 4 in 2021).
No — it is not registered as an open-access journal in DOAJ or Scopus.
Entrepreneurship Theory and Practice has an h-index of 301 and a 2-year mean of 6.55 citations per paper (OpenAlex). Its Scopus CiteScore is 21.9, quartile Q1. On 2-year citations it ranks #42 of 744 Scopus journals in Economics and Econometrics.
Entrepreneurship Theory and Practice published 56 papers in 2025; its busiest recent year was 2020 with 67. 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 United States (30.7%), United Kingdom (10.5%) and Germany (10.5%).
Countries are counted fractionally, so a paper by authors from two countries counts half to each.
Scopus status: Active. 4 retracted papers are recorded (2.1 per 1,000 papers). 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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