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International Journal of Product Development is Scopus-indexed (Q4, CiteScore 0.6), formerly ABDC C, ABS / AJG 1. Published by Inderscience Enterprises Ltd.
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ISSN 1477-9056Verify ISSN ↗1741-8178Verify ISSN ↗
Publisher: Inderscience Enterprises Ltd
Cost to publish: No APC data — check the publisher
| Subject area | Rank | Pctile | Q |
|---|---|---|---|
| Business and International Management | 408 / 456 | 10th | Q4 |
| Management of Technology and Innovation | 285 / 317 | 10th | Q4 |
| Economics and Econometrics | 691 / 755 | 8th | Q4 |
| Strategy and Management | 471 / 506 | 7th | Q4 |
Not listed in: Web of Science, DOAJ, FT50, UT Dallas, ONOS (subscription), ONOS (APC covered)
Yes — actively indexed in Scopus, coverage 2004–2025, best quartile Q4, CiteScore 0.6.
International Journal of Product Development is Q4 in Business and International Management (rank 408 of 456), Q4 in Management of Technology and Innovation (rank 285 of 317) and Q4 in Economics and Econometrics (rank 691 of 755), by CiteScore 2025. It is ranked in 4 subject areas in all.
International Journal of Product Development 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 0.6, quartile Q4, 10th percentile. Any "impact factor" quoted elsewhere is not the Clarivate metric. Its SCImago Journal Rank (SJR, a free Scopus-based metric) is 0.124, quartile Q4, with an H-index of 34.
International Journal of Product Development is published by Inderscience Enterprises Ltd. Its print ISSN is 1477-9056 and its online ISSN is 1741-8178.
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.
No — it is not registered as an open-access journal in DOAJ or Scopus.
International Journal of Product Development has an h-index of 34 and a 2-year mean of 0.3 citations per paper (OpenAlex). Its Scopus CiteScore is 0.6, quartile Q4. On 2-year citations it ranks #380 of 424 Scopus journals in Business and International Management.
International Journal of Product Development published 39 papers in 2025; its busiest recent year was 2023 with 57. 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 (2023–2025), authors are most often from China (80.6%), Sweden (3.2%) and Brazil (2.4%). More than half of recent authorship comes from one country.
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.
Index data is curated from public sources (Scopus, Web of Science, ABDC, FT50, UT Dallas, DOAJ). CiteScore and quartiles reflect the latest available Scopus release. Always verify a journal's current status on its official source before submitting.
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