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Frontiers of Business Research in China is Scopus-indexed (Q4, CiteScore 0.6), WoS ESCI. Published by Higher Education Press Limited Company.
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ISSN 1673-7326Verify ISSN ↗1673-7431Verify ISSN ↗
Publisher: Higher Education Press Limited Company
Cost to publish: No APC data — check the publisher
| Subject area | Rank | Pctile | Q |
|---|---|---|---|
| Public Administration | 207 / 248 | 16th | Q4 |
| Business, Management and Accounting (all) | 205 / 235 | 12th | Q4 |
Not listed in: DOAJ, ABDC, ABS / AJG, FT50, UT Dallas, ONOS (subscription), ONOS (APC covered)
Yes — actively indexed in Scopus, coverage 2007–present, best quartile Q4, CiteScore 0.6.
Frontiers of Business Research in China is Q4 in Public Administration (rank 207 of 248) and Q4 in Business, Management and Accounting (all) (rank 205 of 235), by CiteScore 2025.
Frontiers of Business Research in China 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 0.6, which places it in quartile Q4 at the 16th percentile of its subject. Its SCImago Journal Rank (SJR, a free Scopus-based metric) is 0.154, quartile Q4, with an H-index of 27.
Frontiers of Business Research in China is published by Higher Education Press Limited Company. Its print ISSN is 1673-7326 and its online ISSN is 1673-7431.
Yes — indexed in the Emerging Sources Citation Index.
No — it is not registered as an open-access journal in DOAJ or Scopus.
Frontiers of Business Research in China has an h-index of 36 and a 2-year mean of 0 citations per paper (OpenAlex). Its Scopus CiteScore is 0.6, quartile Q4. On 2-year citations it ranks #226 of 245 Scopus journals in Public Administration.
Frontiers of Business Research in China published 10 papers in 2021; its busiest recent year was 2020 with 26. 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 10 research articles (2021), authors are most often from China (75%), Belgium (10%) and United Kingdom (5%). More than half of recent authorship comes from one country.
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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