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International Journal of Central Banking is Scopus-indexed (Q3, CiteScore 2.6), ABDC A, ABS / AJG 3, WoS SSCI. Published by Association of the International Journal of Central Banking.
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ISSN 1815-4654Verify ISSN ↗1815-7556Verify ISSN ↗
Publisher: Association of the International Journal of Central Banking
Cost to publish: No APC data — check the publisher
| Subject area | Rank | Pctile | Q |
|---|---|---|---|
| Finance | 174 / 342 | 49th | Q3 |
| Economics and Econometrics | 392 / 755 | 48th | Q3 |
Not listed in: DOAJ, FT50, UT Dallas, ONOS (subscription), ONOS (APC covered)
Yes — actively indexed in Scopus, coverage 2010–present, best quartile Q3, CiteScore 2.6.
International Journal of Central Banking is Q3 in Finance (rank 174 of 342) and Q3 in Economics and Econometrics (rank 392 of 755), by CiteScore 2025.
International Journal of Central Banking is indexed in the Social Sciences 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 2.6, which places it in quartile Q3 at the 49th percentile of its subject. Its SCImago Journal Rank (SJR, a free Scopus-based metric) is 1.274, quartile Q1, with an H-index of 44.
International Journal of Central Banking is published by Association of the International Journal of Central Banking. Its print ISSN is 1815-4654 and its online ISSN is 1815-7556.
Yes — indexed in the Social Sciences Citation Index.
It is rated A in the ABDC Journal Quality List 2025 under Applied economics.
It is graded 3 in the Chartered Association of Business Schools (ABS) Academic Journal Guide (AJG) 2024, in the Finance field, unchanged from 2021.
No — it is not registered as an open-access journal in DOAJ or Scopus.
International Journal of Central Banking has an h-index of 23 and a 2-year mean of 324 citations per paper (OpenAlex). Its Scopus CiteScore is 2.6, quartile Q3. On 2-year citations it ranks #1 of 335 Scopus journals in Finance.
International Journal of Central Banking published 2 papers in 2023; its busiest recent year was 2018 with 64. 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.
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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