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International Journal of Business Innovation and Research is Scopus-indexed (Q3, CiteScore 1.9), formerly ABDC C, ABS / AJG 1. Published by Inderscience Enterprises Ltd.
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ISSN 1751-0252Verify ISSN ↗1751-0260Verify ISSN ↗
Publisher: Inderscience Enterprises Ltd
Cost to publish: No APC data — check the publisher
| Subject area | Rank | Pctile | Q |
|---|---|---|---|
| Management of Technology and Innovation | 212 / 317 | 33rd | Q3 |
| Business and International Management | 314 / 456 | 31st | Q3 |
Not listed in: Web of Science, DOAJ, FT50, UT Dallas, ONOS (subscription), ONOS (APC covered)
Yes — actively indexed in Scopus, coverage 2006–present, best quartile Q3, CiteScore 1.9.
International Journal of Business Innovation and Research is Q3 in Management of Technology and Innovation (rank 212 of 317) and Q3 in Business and International Management (rank 314 of 456), by CiteScore 2025.
International Journal of Business Innovation and 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 1.9, quartile Q3, 33rd percentile. Any "impact factor" quoted elsewhere is not the Clarivate metric. Its SCImago Journal Rank (SJR, a free Scopus-based metric) is 0.220, quartile Q4, with an H-index of 31.
International Journal of Business Innovation and Research is published by Inderscience Enterprises Ltd. Its print ISSN is 1751-0252 and its online ISSN is 1751-0260.
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 Innovation field, unchanged from 2021.
Yes — it is an open-access journal per Scopus.
International Journal of Business Innovation and Research has an h-index of 34 and a 2-year mean of 0.38 citations per paper (OpenAlex). Its Scopus CiteScore is 1.9, quartile Q3. On 2-year citations it ranks #252 of 291 Scopus journals in Management of Technology and Innovation.
International Journal of Business Innovation and Research published 180 papers in 2025; its busiest recent year was 2019 with 236. 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 62 research articles (2025–2026), authors are most often from India (36.8%), Indonesia (11.3%) and Malaysia (9.7%).
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 2 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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