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International Journal of Six Sigma and Competitive Advantage is Scopus-indexed (Q3, CiteScore 2.1), formerly ABDC C, ABS / AJG 1. Published by Inderscience Enterprises Ltd.
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ISSN 1479-2494Verify ISSN ↗1479-2753Verify ISSN ↗
Publisher: Inderscience Enterprises Ltd
Cost to publish: No APC data — check the publisher
| Subject area | Rank | Pctile | Q |
|---|---|---|---|
| Industrial and Manufacturing Engineering | 236 / 425 | 44th | Q3 |
| Strategy and Management | 327 / 506 | 35th | Q3 |
Not listed in: Web of Science, DOAJ, FT50, UT Dallas, ONOS (subscription), ONOS (APC covered)
Yes — actively indexed in Scopus, coverage 2019–present (also 2004–2017), best quartile Q3, CiteScore 2.1.
International Journal of Six Sigma and Competitive Advantage is Q3 in Industrial and Manufacturing Engineering (rank 236 of 425) and Q3 in Strategy and Management (rank 327 of 506), by CiteScore 2025.
International Journal of Six Sigma and Competitive Advantage 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 2.1, quartile Q3, 44th percentile. Any "impact factor" quoted elsewhere is not the Clarivate metric. Its SCImago Journal Rank (SJR, a free Scopus-based metric) is 0.194, quartile Q3, with an H-index of 31.
International Journal of Six Sigma and Competitive Advantage is published by Inderscience Enterprises Ltd. Its print ISSN is 1479-2494 and its online ISSN is 1479-2753.
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 Operations and Technology Management field.
No — it is not registered as an open-access journal in DOAJ or Scopus.
International Journal of Six Sigma and Competitive Advantage has an h-index of 31 and a 2-year mean of 0.17 citations per paper (OpenAlex). Its Scopus CiteScore is 2.1, quartile Q3. On 2-year citations it ranks #317 of 359 Scopus journals in Industrial and Manufacturing Engineering.
International Journal of Six Sigma and Competitive Advantage published 12 papers in 2025; its busiest recent year was 2021 with 53. 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 (2021–2026), authors are most often from India (60%), United States (6.4%) and Algeria (3.6%). 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. 1 retracted paper is recorded (2.5 per 1,000 papers). 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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