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International Journal of Economics and Business Research is Scopus-indexed (Q3, CiteScore 1.5), ABDC C. Published by Inderscience Enterprises Ltd..
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ISSN 1756-9850Verify ISSN ↗1756-9869Verify ISSN ↗
Publisher: Inderscience Enterprises Ltd.
Cost to publish: No APC data — check the publisher
| Subject area | Rank | Pctile | Q |
|---|---|---|---|
| Economics, Econometrics and Finance (all) | 154 / 289 | 46th | Q3 |
| Business, Management and Accounting (all) | 165 / 235 | 30th | Q3 |
Not listed in: Web of Science, DOAJ, ABS / AJG, FT50, UT Dallas, ONOS (subscription), ONOS (APC covered)
Yes — actively indexed in Scopus, coverage 2014–present, best quartile Q3, CiteScore 1.5.
International Journal of Economics and Business Research is Q3 in Economics, Econometrics and Finance (all) (rank 154 of 289) and Q3 in Business, Management and Accounting (all) (rank 165 of 235), by CiteScore 2025.
International Journal of Economics and Business 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 1.5, quartile Q3, 46th percentile. Any "impact factor" quoted elsewhere is not the Clarivate metric. Its SCImago Journal Rank (SJR, a free Scopus-based metric) is 0.172, quartile Q4, with an H-index of 17.
International Journal of Economics and Business Research is published by Inderscience Enterprises Ltd. Its print ISSN is 1756-9850 and its online ISSN is 1756-9869.
No — it is not currently in the Web of Science core collections (SCIE, SSCI, AHCI or ESCI).
It is rated C in the ABDC Journal Quality List 2025 under Applied economics.
No — it is not registered as an open-access journal in DOAJ or Scopus.
International Journal of Economics and Business Research has an h-index of 22 and a 2-year mean of 0.77 citations per paper (OpenAlex). Its Scopus CiteScore is 1.5, quartile Q3. On 2-year citations it ranks #162 of 269 Scopus journals in Economics, Econometrics and Finance (all).
International Journal of Economics and Business Research published 66 papers in 2025; its busiest recent year was 2021 with 181. 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 (2025–2026), authors are most often from Vietnam (18.4%), Germany (9.6%) and United Arab Emirates (7.9%).
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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