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International Journal of Knowledge-Based Development is Scopus-indexed (Q3, CiteScore 1.1), ABS / AJG 1, WoS ESCI. Published by Inderscience.
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ISSN 2040-4468Verify ISSN ↗2040-4476Verify ISSN ↗
Publisher: Inderscience
Cost to publish: No APC data — check the publisher
| Subject area | Rank | Pctile | Q |
|---|---|---|---|
| Information Systems and Management | 149 / 222 | 33rd | Q3 |
| Management of Technology and Innovation | 262 / 317 | 17th | Q4 |
| Strategy and Management | 430 / 506 | 15th | Q4 |
Not listed in: DOAJ, ABDC, FT50, UT Dallas, ONOS (subscription), ONOS (APC covered)
Yes — actively indexed in Scopus, coverage 2010–present, best quartile Q3, CiteScore 1.1.
International Journal of Knowledge-Based Development is Q3 in Information Systems and Management (rank 149 of 222), Q4 in Management of Technology and Innovation (rank 262 of 317) and Q4 in Strategy and Management (rank 430 of 506), by CiteScore 2025.
International Journal of Knowledge-Based Development 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 1.1, which places it in quartile Q3 at the 33rd percentile of its subject. Its SCImago Journal Rank (SJR, a free Scopus-based metric) is 0.178, quartile Q3, with an H-index of 27.
International Journal of Knowledge-Based Development is published by Inderscience. Its print ISSN is 2040-4468 and its online ISSN is 2040-4476.
Yes — indexed in the Emerging Sources Citation Index.
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 Knowledge-Based Development has an h-index of 26 and a 2-year mean of 0.52 citations per paper (OpenAlex). Its Scopus CiteScore is 1.1, quartile Q3. On 2-year citations it ranks #116 of 156 Scopus journals in Information Systems and Management.
International Journal of Knowledge-Based Development published 38 papers in 2025; its busiest recent year was 2023 with 54. 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 55 research articles (2024–2026), authors are most often from China (26.4%), India (15.3%) and Iran (10.9%).
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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