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Forbes is Scopus-indexed (Q4, CiteScore 0.1). Published by Forbes Magazine.
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ISSN 0015-6914Verify ISSN ↗
Publisher: Forbes Magazine
Cost to publish: No APC data — check the publisher
| Subject area | Rank | Pctile | Q |
|---|---|---|---|
| Strategy and Management | 501 / 506 | 1st | Q4 |
| Finance | 341 / 342 | 0th | Q4 |
Not listed in: Web of Science, DOAJ, ABDC, ABS / AJG, FT50, UT Dallas, ONOS (subscription), ONOS (APC covered)
Yes — actively indexed in Scopus, coverage 2018–present (also 2005–2011, 2002, 1997, 1978–1981), best quartile Q4, CiteScore 0.1.
Forbes is Q4 in Strategy and Management (rank 501 of 506) and Q4 in Finance (rank 341 of 342), by CiteScore 2025.
Forbes 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 0.1, quartile Q4, 1st percentile. Any "impact factor" quoted elsewhere is not the Clarivate metric. Its SCImago Journal Rank (SJR, a free Scopus-based metric) is 0.104, quartile Q4, with an H-index of 7.
Forbes is published by Forbes Magazine. Its ISSN is 0015-6914.
No — it is not currently in the Web of Science core collections (SCIE, SSCI, AHCI or ESCI).
No — it is not registered as an open-access journal in DOAJ or Scopus.
Forbes has an h-index of 2 and a 2-year mean of 0 citations per paper (OpenAlex). Its Scopus CiteScore is 0.1, quartile Q4. On 2-year citations it ranks #458 of 476 Scopus journals in Strategy and Management.
Forbes published 4 papers in 2021; its busiest recent year was 2015 with 13. 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.
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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