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International Journal of Sustainable Economy is Scopus-indexed (Q2, CiteScore 2.4), ABDC C. Published by Inderscience Enterprises Ltd..
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ISSN 1756-5804Verify ISSN ↗1756-5812Verify ISSN ↗
Publisher: Inderscience Enterprises Ltd.
Cost to publish: No APC data — check the publisher
| Subject area | Rank | Pctile | Q |
|---|---|---|---|
| Development | 150 / 314 | 52nd | Q2 |
| Finance | 184 / 342 | 46th | Q3 |
| Economics and Econometrics | 410 / 755 | 45th | Q3 |
| Management of Technology and Innovation | 189 / 317 | 40th | Q3 |
| Business and International Management | 273 / 456 | 40th | Q3 |
Not listed in: Web of Science, DOAJ, ABS / AJG, FT50, UT Dallas, ONOS (subscription), ONOS (APC covered)
Yes — actively indexed in Scopus, coverage 2017–present, best quartile Q2, CiteScore 2.4.
International Journal of Sustainable Economy is Q2 in Development (rank 150 of 314), Q3 in Finance (rank 184 of 342) and Q3 in Economics and Econometrics (rank 410 of 755), by CiteScore 2025. It is ranked in 5 subject areas in all.
International Journal of Sustainable Economy 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 2.4, quartile Q2, 52nd percentile. Any "impact factor" quoted elsewhere is not the Clarivate metric. Its SCImago Journal Rank (SJR, a free Scopus-based metric) is 0.302, quartile Q3, with an H-index of 15.
International Journal of Sustainable Economy is published by Inderscience Enterprises Ltd. Its print ISSN is 1756-5804 and its online ISSN is 1756-5812.
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 Sustainable Economy has an h-index of 21 and a 2-year mean of 0.6 citations per paper (OpenAlex). Its Scopus CiteScore is 2.4, quartile Q2. On 2-year citations it ranks #216 of 299 Scopus journals in Development.
International Journal of Sustainable Economy published 35 papers in 2025; its busiest recent year was 2021 with 63. 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 47 research articles (2024–2026), authors are most often from India (27.7%), Vietnam (16%) and Nigeria (7.4%).
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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