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International Journal of Business and Systems Research is Scopus-indexed (Q3, CiteScore 1.6), formerly ABDC C, ABS / AJG 1. Published by Inderscience Enterprises Ltd.
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ISSN 1751-200XVerify ISSN ↗1751-2018Verify ISSN ↗
Publisher: Inderscience Enterprises Ltd
Cost to publish: No APC data — check the publisher
| Subject area | Rank | Pctile | Q |
|---|---|---|---|
| Strategy and Management | 376 / 506 | 25th | Q3 |
| Business and International Management | 339 / 456 | 25th | Q3 |
| Management Information Systems | 110 / 143 | 23rd | Q4 |
Not listed in: Web of Science, DOAJ, FT50, UT Dallas, ONOS (subscription), ONOS (APC covered)
Yes — actively indexed in Scopus, coverage 2007–present, best quartile Q3, CiteScore 1.6.
International Journal of Business and Systems Research is Q3 in Strategy and Management (rank 376 of 506), Q3 in Business and International Management (rank 339 of 456) and Q4 in Management Information Systems (rank 110 of 143), by CiteScore 2025.
International Journal of Business and Systems Research 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 1.6, quartile Q3, 25th percentile. Any "impact factor" quoted elsewhere is not the Clarivate metric. Its SCImago Journal Rank (SJR, a free Scopus-based metric) is 0.196, quartile Q4, with an H-index of 20.
International Journal of Business and Systems Research is published by Inderscience Enterprises Ltd. Its print ISSN is 1751-200X and its online ISSN is 1751-2018.
No — it is not currently in the Web of Science core collections (SCIE, SSCI, AHCI or ESCI).
It was rated C in the 2010 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 Information Management field, unchanged from 2021.
No — it is not registered as an open-access journal in DOAJ or Scopus.
International Journal of Business and Systems Research has an h-index of 22 and a 2-year mean of 0.51 citations per paper (OpenAlex). Its Scopus CiteScore is 1.6, quartile Q3. On 2-year citations it ranks #388 of 476 Scopus journals in Strategy and Management.
International Journal of Business and Systems Research published 46 papers in 2025; its busiest recent year was 2021 with 89. 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 52 research articles (2024–2026), authors are most often from India (45.2%), United States (10.6%) and Malaysia (5.1%).
Countries are counted fractionally, so a paper by authors from two countries counts half to each.
Scopus status: Active. 1 retracted paper is recorded (1.2 per 1,000 papers). The Problematic Paper Screener flags 1 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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