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International Journal of Business Environment is Scopus-indexed (Q3, CiteScore 2.3), formerly ABDC C, ABS / AJG 1, WoS ESCI. Published by Inderscience Enterprises Ltd.
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ISSN 1740-0589Verify ISSN ↗1740-0597Verify ISSN ↗
Publisher: Inderscience Enterprises Ltd
Cost to publish: No APC data — check the publisher
| Subject area | Rank | Pctile | Q |
|---|---|---|---|
| Management of Technology and Innovation | 198 / 317 | 37th | Q3 |
| Strategy and Management | 316 / 506 | 37th | Q3 |
| Business and International Management | 286 / 456 | 37th | Q3 |
| Management Science and Operations Research | 154 / 225 | 31st | Q3 |
Not listed in: DOAJ, FT50, UT Dallas, ONOS (subscription), ONOS (APC covered)
Yes — actively indexed in Scopus, coverage 2017–present, best quartile Q3, CiteScore 2.3.
International Journal of Business Environment is Q3 in Management of Technology and Innovation (rank 198 of 317), Q3 in Strategy and Management (rank 316 of 506) and Q3 in Business and International Management (rank 286 of 456), by CiteScore 2025. It is ranked in 4 subject areas in all.
International Journal of Business Environment 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 2.3, which places it in quartile Q3 at the 37th percentile of its subject. Its SCImago Journal Rank (SJR, a free Scopus-based metric) is 0.270, quartile Q3, with an H-index of 13.
International Journal of Business Environment is published by Inderscience Enterprises Ltd. Its print ISSN is 1740-0589 and its online ISSN is 1740-0597.
Yes — indexed in the Emerging Sources Citation Index.
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 Ethics, Corporate Social Responsibility and Management field, unchanged from 2021.
No — it is not registered as an open-access journal in DOAJ or Scopus.
International Journal of Business Environment has an h-index of 21 and a 2-year mean of 0.56 citations per paper (OpenAlex). Its Scopus CiteScore is 2.3, quartile Q3. On 2-year citations it ranks #232 of 291 Scopus journals in Management of Technology and Innovation.
International Journal of Business Environment published 35 papers in 2025; its busiest recent year was 2022 with 53. 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 Chile (11.4%), Vietnam (11.1%) and Spain (9.6%).
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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