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International Journal of Business is Scopus-indexed (Q3, CiteScore 1.4), ABDC C, WoS ESCI. Published by Premier Publishing.
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ISSN 1083-4346Verify ISSN ↗
Publisher: Premier Publishing
Cost to publish: No APC data — check the publisher
| Subject area | Rank | Pctile | Q |
|---|---|---|---|
| Finance | 235 / 342 | 31st | Q3 |
| Economics and Econometrics | 556 / 755 | 26th | Q3 |
| Strategy and Management | 400 / 506 | 21st | Q4 |
| Business and International Management | 361 / 456 | 20th | Q4 |
Not listed in: DOAJ, ABS / AJG, FT50, UT Dallas, ONOS (subscription), ONOS (APC covered)
Yes — actively indexed in Scopus, coverage 2011–present, best quartile Q3, CiteScore 1.4.
International Journal of Business is Q3 in Finance (rank 235 of 342), Q3 in Economics and Econometrics (rank 556 of 755) and Q4 in Strategy and Management (rank 400 of 506), by CiteScore 2025. It is ranked in 4 subject areas in all.
International Journal of Business 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 1.4, which places it in quartile Q3 at the 31st percentile of its subject. Its SCImago Journal Rank (SJR, a free Scopus-based metric) is 0.179, quartile Q4, with an H-index of 16.
International Journal of Business is published by Premier Publishing. Its ISSN is 1083-4346.
Yes — indexed in the Emerging Sources Citation Index.
It is rated C in the ABDC Journal Quality List 2025 under Strategy, management and organisational behaviour.
No — it is not registered as an open-access journal in DOAJ or Scopus.
International Journal of Business has an h-index of 26 and a 2-year mean of 0.28 citations per paper (OpenAlex). Its Scopus CiteScore is 1.4, quartile Q3. On 2-year citations it ranks #298 of 335 Scopus journals in Finance.
International Journal of Business published 17 papers in 2025; its busiest recent year was 2017 with 57. 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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