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Harvard Business Review is Scopus-indexed (Q3, CiteScore 1.7), ABDC A, ABS / AJG 3, WoS SSCI, FT50. Published by Harvard Business Publishing.
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ISSN 0017-8012Verify ISSN ↗
Publisher: Harvard Business Publishing
Cost to publish: No APC data — check the publisher
| Subject area | Rank | Pctile | Q |
|---|---|---|---|
| Economics and Econometrics | 506 / 755 | 33rd | Q3 |
| Business, Management and Accounting (all) | 160 / 235 | 32nd | Q3 |
| Business and International Management | 331 / 456 | 27th | Q3 |
| Strategy and Management | 368 / 506 | 27th | Q3 |
| Management of Technology and Innovation | 234 / 317 | 26th | Q3 |
Not listed in: DOAJ, UT Dallas, ONOS (subscription), ONOS (APC covered)
Yes — actively indexed in Scopus, coverage 1989–2025 (also 1978–1987, 1974), best quartile Q3, CiteScore 1.7.
Harvard Business Review is Q3 in Economics and Econometrics (rank 506 of 755), Q3 in Business, Management and Accounting (all) (rank 160 of 235) and Q3 in Business and International Management (rank 331 of 456), by CiteScore 2025. It is ranked in 5 subject areas in all.
Harvard Business Review 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 1.7, which places it in quartile Q3 at the 33rd percentile of its subject. Its SCImago Journal Rank (SJR, a free Scopus-based metric) is 0.356, quartile Q3, with an H-index of 221.
Harvard Business Review is published by Harvard Business Publishing. Its ISSN is 0017-8012.
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 3 in the Chartered Association of Business Schools (ABS) Academic Journal Guide (AJG) 2024, in the Ethics, Corporate Social Responsibility and Management field, unchanged from 2021.
No — it is not registered as an open-access journal in DOAJ or Scopus.
Harvard Business Review has an h-index of 140 and a 2-year mean of 0 citations per paper (OpenAlex). Its Scopus CiteScore is 1.7, quartile Q3. On 2-year citations it ranks #693 of 744 Scopus journals in Economics and Econometrics.
Harvard Business Review published 5 papers in 2021; its busiest recent year was 2014 with 315. 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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