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Issues in Business Ethics is Scopus-indexed (Q2, CiteScore 0.9). Published by Springer Science and Business Media B.V..
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ISSN 0925-6733Verify ISSN ↗2215-1680Verify ISSN ↗
Publisher: Springer Science and Business Media B.V.
Cost to publish: No APC data — check the publisher
| Subject area | Rank | Pctile | Q |
|---|---|---|---|
| Philosophy | 289 / 891 | 67th | Q2 |
| Business and International Management | 392 / 456 | 14th | Q4 |
Not listed in: Web of Science, DOAJ, ABDC, ABS / AJG, FT50, UT Dallas, ONOS (subscription), ONOS (APC covered)
Yes — actively indexed in Scopus, coverage 2022–present (also 2010–2020, 2005–2008), best quartile Q2, CiteScore 0.9.
Issues in Business Ethics is Q2 in Philosophy (rank 289 of 891) and Q4 in Business and International Management (rank 392 of 456), by CiteScore 2025.
Issues in Business Ethics 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 0.9, quartile Q2, 67th percentile. Any "impact factor" quoted elsewhere is not the Clarivate metric.
Issues in Business Ethics is published by Springer Science and Business Media B.V. Its print ISSN is 0925-6733 and its online ISSN is 2215-1680.
No — it is not currently in the Web of Science core collections (SCIE, SSCI, AHCI or ESCI).
No — it is not registered as an open-access journal in DOAJ or Scopus.
Issues in Business Ethics has an h-index of 40 and a 2-year mean of 0.59 citations per paper (OpenAlex). Its Scopus CiteScore is 0.9, quartile Q2. On 2-year citations it ranks #221 of 805 Scopus journals in Philosophy.
Issues in Business Ethics published 8 papers in 2025; its busiest recent year was 2022 with 131. 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.
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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