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International Journal of Business and Emerging Markets is Scopus-indexed (Q3, CiteScore 2.3), formerly ABDC C, ABS / AJG 1. Published by Inderscience Enterprises Ltd.
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ISSN 1753-6219Verify ISSN ↗1753-6227Verify ISSN ↗
Publisher: Inderscience Enterprises Ltd
Cost to publish: No APC data — check the publisher
| Subject area | Rank | Pctile | Q |
|---|---|---|---|
| Economics and Econometrics | 422 / 755 | 44th | Q3 |
| Strategy and Management | 314 / 506 | 38th | Q3 |
| Business and International Management | 284 / 456 | 37th | Q3 |
| Marketing | 147 / 221 | 33rd | Q3 |
Not listed in: Web of Science, DOAJ, FT50, UT Dallas, ONOS (subscription), ONOS (APC covered)
Yes — actively indexed in Scopus, coverage 2019–present, best quartile Q3, CiteScore 2.3.
International Journal of Business and Emerging Markets is Q3 in Economics and Econometrics (rank 422 of 755), Q3 in Strategy and Management (rank 314 of 506) and Q3 in Business and International Management (rank 284 of 456), by CiteScore 2025. It is ranked in 4 subject areas in all.
International Journal of Business and Emerging Markets 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 2.3, quartile Q3, 44th percentile. Any "impact factor" quoted elsewhere is not the Clarivate metric. Its SCImago Journal Rank (SJR, a free Scopus-based metric) is 0.252, quartile Q3, with an H-index of 11.
International Journal of Business and Emerging Markets is published by Inderscience Enterprises Ltd. Its print ISSN is 1753-6219 and its online ISSN is 1753-6227.
No — it is not currently in the Web of Science core collections (SCIE, SSCI, AHCI or ESCI).
It was rated C in the 2016 ABDC list but is not in the current 2025 Journal Quality List.
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.
International Journal of Business and Emerging Markets has an h-index of 18 and a 2-year mean of 0.52 citations per paper (OpenAlex). Its Scopus CiteScore is 2.3, quartile Q3. On 2-year citations it ranks #585 of 744 Scopus journals in Economics and Econometrics.
International Journal of Business and Emerging Markets published 39 papers in 2025; its busiest recent year was 2023 with 118. 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 57 research articles (2024–2026), authors are most often from India (14.6%), Vietnam (8.8%) and Nigeria (5.8%).
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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