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International Journal of Business and Society is Scopus-indexed (Q3, CiteScore 2.2), ABDC C, WoS ESCI. Published by Universiti Malaysia Sarawak.
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ISSN 1511-6670Verify ISSN ↗
Publisher: Universiti Malaysia Sarawak
Cost to publish: No APC data — check the publisher
| Subject area | Rank | Pctile | Q |
|---|---|---|---|
| Finance | 193 / 342 | 43rd | Q3 |
| Economics and Econometrics | 430 / 755 | 43rd | Q3 |
| Strategy and Management | 321 / 506 | 36th | Q3 |
| Business and International Management | 291 / 456 | 36th | Q3 |
Not listed in: DOAJ, ABS / AJG, FT50, UT Dallas, ONOS (subscription), ONOS (APC covered)
Yes — actively indexed in Scopus, coverage 2009–present, best quartile Q3, CiteScore 2.2.
International Journal of Business and Society is Q3 in Finance (rank 193 of 342), Q3 in Economics and Econometrics (rank 430 of 755) and Q3 in Strategy and Management (rank 321 of 506), by CiteScore 2025. It is ranked in 4 subject areas in all.
International Journal of Business and Society 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 2.2, which places it in quartile Q3 at the 43rd percentile of its subject. Its SCImago Journal Rank (SJR, a free Scopus-based metric) is 0.249, quartile Q3, with an H-index of 30.
International Journal of Business and Society is published by Universiti Malaysia Sarawak. Its ISSN is 1511-6670.
Yes — indexed in the Emerging Sources Citation Index.
It is rated C in the ABDC Journal Quality List 2025 under Accounting, auditing and accountability.
No — it is not registered as an open-access journal in DOAJ or Scopus.
International Journal of Business and Society has an h-index of 36 and a 2-year mean of 1.31 citations per paper (OpenAlex). Its Scopus CiteScore is 2.2, quartile Q3. On 2-year citations it ranks #195 of 335 Scopus journals in Finance.
International Journal of Business and Society published 64 papers in 2025; its busiest recent year was 2021 with 165. 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 95 research articles (2025–2026), authors are most often from Malaysia (40.6%), Indonesia (20.8%) and Vietnam (10%).
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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