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Journal of Business Models is Scopus-indexed (Q3, CiteScore 1.8), ABDC C, ABS / AJG 1, DOAJ. Published by Emerald Publishing.
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ISSN 2246-2465Verify ISSN ↗
Publisher: Emerald Publishing
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| Subject area | Rank | Pctile | Q |
|---|---|---|---|
| Business, Management and Accounting (miscellaneous) | 145 / 235 | 38th | Q3 |
| Accounting | 125 / 191 | 34th | Q3 |
| Management of Technology and Innovation | 215 / 317 | 32nd | Q3 |
| Strategy and Management | 351 / 506 | 30th | Q3 |
Not listed in: Web of Science, FT50, UT Dallas, ONOS (subscription), ONOS (APC covered)
Yes — actively indexed in Scopus, coverage 2020–2025, best quartile Q3, CiteScore 1.8.
Journal of Business Models is Q3 in Business, Management and Accounting (miscellaneous) (rank 145 of 235), Q3 in Accounting (rank 125 of 191) and Q3 in Management of Technology and Innovation (rank 215 of 317), by CiteScore 2025. It is ranked in 4 subject areas in all.
Journal of Business Models 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 1.8, quartile Q3, 38th percentile. Any "impact factor" quoted elsewhere is not the Clarivate metric. Its SCImago Journal Rank (SJR, a free Scopus-based metric) is 0.270, quartile Q3, with an H-index of 13.
Journal of Business Models is published by Emerald Publishing. Its ISSN is 2246-2465.
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 Strategy, management and organisational behaviour.
It is graded 1 in the Chartered Association of Business Schools (ABS) Academic Journal Guide (AJG) 2024, in the Strategy field, unchanged from 2021.
Yes — it is an open-access journal, listed in DOAJ.
Journal of Business Models has an h-index of 10 and a 2-year mean of 1.84 citations per paper (OpenAlex). Its Scopus CiteScore is 1.8, quartile Q3. On 2-year citations it ranks #99 of 224 Scopus journals in Business, Management and Accounting (miscellaneous).
Journal of Business Models published 13 papers in 2025; its busiest recent year was 2023 with 25. 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 77 research articles (2021–2026), authors are most often from Denmark (16%), Finland (15.7%) and Italy (9.7%).
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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