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Journal of Business and Economic Statistics is Scopus-indexed (Q1, CiteScore 5.9), ABDC A*, ABS / AJG 4, WoS SCIE/SSCI. It is covered by India's One Nation One Subscription scheme for reading access. Published by Taylor & Francis Online.
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ISSN 0735-0015Verify ISSN ↗1537-2707Verify ISSN ↗
Publisher: Taylor & Francis Online
Cost to publish: No APC data — check the publisher
| Subject area | Rank | Pctile | Q |
|---|---|---|---|
| Social Sciences (miscellaneous) | 68 / 744 | 90th | Q1 |
| Statistics and Probability | 31 / 303 | 89th | Q1 |
| Statistics, Probability and Uncertainty | 24 / 178 | 86th | Q1 |
| Economics and Econometrics | 159 / 755 | 79th | Q1 |
Not listed in: DOAJ, FT50, UT Dallas, ONOS (APC covered)
Yes — actively indexed in Scopus, coverage 1983–present, best quartile Q1, CiteScore 5.9.
Journal of Business and Economic Statistics is Q1 in Social Sciences (miscellaneous) (rank 68 of 744), Q1 in Statistics and Probability (rank 31 of 303) and Q1 in Statistics, Probability and Uncertainty (rank 24 of 178), by CiteScore 2025. It is ranked in 4 subject areas in all.
Journal of Business and Economic Statistics is indexed in the Science Citation Index Expanded and Social Sciences Citation Index, so it may have a Journal Impact Factor in Clarivate's Journal Citation Reports. JCR is paid, so check it for the current value. The closest free measure is its Scopus CiteScore 5.9, which places it in quartile Q1 at the 90th percentile of its subject. Its SCImago Journal Rank (SJR, a free Scopus-based metric) is 3.508, quartile Q1, with an H-index of 127.
Journal of Business and Economic Statistics is published by Taylor & Francis Online. Its print ISSN is 0735-0015 and its online ISSN is 1537-2707.
Yes. It is part of the One Nation One Subscription (ONOS) national subscription, so readers at participating Indian institutions get its full text. ONOS does not cover its article processing charge.
Yes — indexed in the Science Citation Index Expanded and Social Sciences Citation Index.
It is rated A* in the ABDC Journal Quality List 2025 under Econometrics.
It is graded 4 in the Chartered Association of Business Schools (ABS) Academic Journal Guide (AJG) 2024, in the Economics, Econometrics and Statistics field, unchanged from 2021.
No — it is not registered as an open-access journal in DOAJ or Scopus.
Journal of Business and Economic Statistics has an h-index of 234 and a 2-year mean of 1.84 citations per paper (OpenAlex). Its Scopus CiteScore is 5.9, quartile Q1. On 2-year citations it ranks #144 of 703 Scopus journals in Social Sciences (miscellaneous).
Journal of Business and Economic Statistics published 106 papers in 2025; its busiest recent year was 2021 with 114. 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 99 research articles (2025–2026), authors are most often from China (27.9%), United States (20.9%) and United Kingdom (9.9%).
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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