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Global Business and Economics Review is Scopus-indexed (Q4, CiteScore 1.1), ABDC C, ABS / AJG 1, WoS ESCI. Published by Inderscience Enterprises Ltd..
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ISSN 1097-4954Verify ISSN ↗1745-1329Verify ISSN ↗
Publisher: Inderscience Enterprises Ltd.
Cost to publish: No APC data — check the publisher
| Subject area | Rank | Pctile | Q |
|---|---|---|---|
| Economics and Econometrics | 602 / 755 | 20th | Q4 |
| Business and International Management | 377 / 456 | 17th | Q4 |
Not listed in: DOAJ, FT50, UT Dallas, ONOS (subscription), ONOS (APC covered)
Yes — actively indexed in Scopus, coverage 2004–present, best quartile Q4, CiteScore 1.1.
Global Business and Economics Review is Q4 in Economics and Econometrics (rank 602 of 755) and Q4 in Business and International Management (rank 377 of 456), by CiteScore 2025.
Global Business and Economics Review 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 1.1, which places it in quartile Q4 at the 20th percentile of its subject. Its SCImago Journal Rank (SJR, a free Scopus-based metric) is 0.183, quartile Q4, with an H-index of 20.
Global Business and Economics Review is published by Inderscience Enterprises Ltd. Its print ISSN is 1097-4954 and its online ISSN is 1745-1329.
Yes — indexed in the Emerging Sources Citation Index.
It is rated C in the ABDC Journal Quality List 2025 under Applied economics.
It is graded 1 in the Chartered Association of Business Schools (ABS) Academic Journal Guide (AJG) 2024, in the International Business and Area Studies field, unchanged from 2021.
No — it is not registered as an open-access journal in DOAJ or Scopus.
Global Business and Economics Review has an h-index of 26 and a 2-year mean of 0.52 citations per paper (OpenAlex). Its Scopus CiteScore is 1.1, quartile Q4. On 2-year citations it ranks #585 of 744 Scopus journals in Economics and Econometrics.
Global Business and Economics Review published 76 papers in 2025; its busiest recent year was 2022 with 146. 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 30 research articles (2025–2026), authors are most often from India (18.3%), Vietnam (13.3%) and Malaysia (11.7%).
Countries are counted fractionally, so a paper by authors from two countries counts half to each.
Scopus status: Active. 1 retracted paper is recorded (0.8 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.
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