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International Journal of Business Performance Management is Scopus-indexed (Q3, CiteScore 1.8), formerly ABDC C, ABS / AJG 1, WoS ESCI. Published by Inderscience Enterprises Ltd.
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ISSN 1368-4892Verify ISSN ↗1741-5039Verify ISSN ↗
Publisher: Inderscience Enterprises Ltd
Cost to publish: No APC data — check the publisher
| Subject area | Rank | Pctile | Q |
|---|---|---|---|
| Business and International Management | 319 / 456 | 30th | Q3 |
| Strategy and Management | 354 / 506 | 30th | Q3 |
Not listed in: DOAJ, FT50, UT Dallas, ONOS (subscription), ONOS (APC covered)
Yes — actively indexed in Scopus, coverage 1998–present, best quartile Q3, CiteScore 1.8.
International Journal of Business Performance Management is Q3 in Business and International Management (rank 319 of 456) and Q3 in Strategy and Management (rank 354 of 506), by CiteScore 2025.
International Journal of Business Performance Management 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 1.8, which places it in quartile Q3 at the 30th percentile of its subject. Its SCImago Journal Rank (SJR, a free Scopus-based metric) is 0.263, quartile Q3, with an H-index of 27.
International Journal of Business Performance Management is published by Inderscience Enterprises Ltd. Its print ISSN is 1368-4892 and its online ISSN is 1741-5039.
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 Operations and Technology Management field, unchanged from 2021.
No — it is not registered as an open-access journal in DOAJ or Scopus.
International Journal of Business Performance Management has an h-index of 33 and a 2-year mean of 0.41 citations per paper (OpenAlex). Its Scopus CiteScore is 1.8, quartile Q3. On 2-year citations it ranks #361 of 424 Scopus journals in Business and International Management.
International Journal of Business Performance Management published 94 papers in 2025; its busiest recent year was 2024 with 95. 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 34 research articles (2025–2026), authors are most often from India (22.1%), United Kingdom (11.8%) and United Arab Emirates (8.8%).
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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