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Journal of Business Research is Scopus-indexed (Q1, CiteScore 22.9), ABDC A, ABS / AJG 3, WoS SSCI. It is covered by India's One Nation One Subscription scheme for reading access. Published by Elsevier.
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ISSN 0148-2963Verify ISSN ↗1873-7978Verify ISSN ↗
Publisher: Elsevier
Cost to publish: About US$4,440 to publish open access (publisher list price, via OpenAlex) — subscription publishing may be free
| Subject area | Rank | Pctile | Q |
|---|---|---|---|
| Organizational Behavior and Human Resource Management | 4 / 254 | 98th | Q1 |
| Business and International Management | 7 / 456 | 98th | Q1 |
| Strategy and Management | 8 / 506 | 98th | Q1 |
| Management of Technology and Innovation | 6 / 317 | 98th | Q1 |
| Marketing | 6 / 221 | 97th | Q1 |
Not listed in: DOAJ, FT50, UT Dallas, ONOS (APC covered)
Yes — actively indexed in Scopus, coverage 1973–present, best quartile Q1, CiteScore 22.9.
Journal of Business Research is Q1 in Organizational Behavior and Human Resource Management (rank 4 of 254), Q1 in Business and International Management (rank 7 of 456) and Q1 in Strategy and Management (rank 8 of 506), by CiteScore 2025. It is ranked in 5 subject areas in all.
Journal of Business Research is indexed in the 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 22.9, which places it in quartile Q1 at the 98th percentile of its subject. Its SCImago Journal Rank (SJR, a free Scopus-based metric) is 3.498, quartile Q1, with an H-index of 322.
The publisher lists an article processing charge of about US$4,440 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 Research is published by Elsevier. Its print ISSN is 0148-2963 and its online ISSN is 1873-7978.
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 Social Sciences Citation Index.
It is rated A in the ABDC Journal Quality List 2025 under Marketing.
It is graded 3 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 of Business Research has an h-index of 404 and a 2-year mean of 10.6 citations per paper (OpenAlex). Its Scopus CiteScore is 22.9, quartile Q1. On 2-year citations it ranks #6 of 250 Scopus journals in Organizational Behavior and Human Resource Management.
Journal of Business Research published 648 papers in 2025; its busiest recent year was 2022 with 958. 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 90 research articles (2026), authors are most often from China (31.4%), United States (14.1%) and United Kingdom (8%).
Countries are counted fractionally, so a paper by authors from two countries counts half to each.
Scopus status: Active. 2 retracted papers are recorded (0.2 per 1,000 papers). The Problematic Paper Screener flags 5 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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