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Journal of Business Cycle Research is Scopus-indexed (Q3, CiteScore 2), ABDC B. It is covered by India's One Nation One Subscription scheme for reading access. Published by Springer International Publishing.
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ISSN 2509-7962Verify ISSN ↗2509-7970Verify ISSN ↗
Publisher: Springer International Publishing
Cost to publish: About US$3,190 to publish open access (publisher list price, via OpenAlex) — subscription publishing may be free
| Subject area | Rank | Pctile | Q |
|---|---|---|---|
| Finance | 201 / 342 | 41st | Q3 |
| Statistics, Probability and Uncertainty | 105 / 178 | 41st | Q3 |
| Economics and Econometrics | 452 / 755 | 40th | Q3 |
| Business and International Management | 303 / 456 | 33rd | Q3 |
Not listed in: Web of Science, DOAJ, ABS / AJG, FT50, UT Dallas, ONOS (APC covered)
Yes — actively indexed in Scopus, coverage 2016–present, best quartile Q3, CiteScore 2.
Journal of Business Cycle Research is Q3 in Finance (rank 201 of 342), Q3 in Statistics, Probability and Uncertainty (rank 105 of 178) and Q3 in Economics and Econometrics (rank 452 of 755), by CiteScore 2025. It is ranked in 4 subject areas in all.
Journal of Business Cycle Research 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, quartile Q3, 41st percentile. Any "impact factor" quoted elsewhere is not the Clarivate metric. Its SCImago Journal Rank (SJR, a free Scopus-based metric) is 0.308, quartile Q3, with an H-index of 11.
The publisher lists an article processing charge of about US$3,190 for open access (source: OpenAlex). Many journals also publish by the subscription route at no cost to the author, so confirm on the journal's own website.
Journal of Business Cycle Research is published by Springer International Publishing. Its print ISSN is 2509-7962 and its online ISSN is 2509-7970.
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.
No — it is not currently in the Web of Science core collections (SCIE, SSCI, AHCI or ESCI).
It is rated B in the ABDC Journal Quality List 2025 under Applied economics.
No — it is not registered as an open-access journal in DOAJ or Scopus.
Journal of Business Cycle Research has an h-index of 14 and a 2-year mean of 0.8 citations per paper (OpenAlex). Its Scopus CiteScore is 2, quartile Q3. On 2-year citations it ranks #238 of 335 Scopus journals in Finance.
Journal of Business Cycle Research published 12 papers in 2025; its busiest recent year was 2022 with 17. 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 80 research articles (2021–2026), authors are most often from United States (20%), Germany (15.2%) and Japan (5%).
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.
Index data is curated from public sources (Scopus, Web of Science, ABDC, FT50, UT Dallas, DOAJ). CiteScore and quartiles reflect the latest available Scopus release. Always verify a journal's current status on its official source before submitting.
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