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Journal for Global Business Advancement is Scopus-indexed (Q4, CiteScore 1.5), formerly ABDC C, ABS / AJG 1. Published by Inderscience Enterprises Ltd.
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ISSN 1746-966XVerify ISSN ↗1746-9678Verify ISSN ↗
Publisher: Inderscience Enterprises Ltd
Cost to publish: No APC data — check the publisher
| Subject area | Rank | Pctile | Q |
|---|---|---|---|
| Business and International Management | 351 / 456 | 23rd | Q4 |
Not listed in: Web of Science, DOAJ, FT50, UT Dallas, ONOS (subscription), ONOS (APC covered)
Yes — actively indexed in Scopus, coverage 2007–present, best quartile Q4, CiteScore 1.5.
Journal for Global Business Advancement is Q4 in Business and International Management (rank 351 of 456), by CiteScore 2025.
Journal for Global Business Advancement 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 1.5, quartile Q4, 23rd percentile. Any "impact factor" quoted elsewhere is not the Clarivate metric. Its SCImago Journal Rank (SJR, a free Scopus-based metric) is 0.174, quartile Q4, with an H-index of 20.
Journal for Global Business Advancement is published by Inderscience Enterprises Ltd. Its print ISSN is 1746-966X and its online ISSN is 1746-9678.
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 Ethics, Corporate Social Responsibility and Management field, unchanged from 2021.
No — it is not registered as an open-access journal in DOAJ or Scopus.
Journal for Global Business Advancement has an h-index of 19 and a 2-year mean of 0.16 citations per paper (OpenAlex). Its Scopus CiteScore is 1.5, quartile Q4. On 2-year citations it ranks #397 of 424 Scopus journals in Business and International Management.
Journal for Global Business Advancement published 58 papers in 2025; its busiest recent year was 2023 with 78. 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 49 research articles (2023–2025), authors are most often from Vietnam (45.9%), India (15.3%) and United Arab Emirates (6.8%).
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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