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Journal of Business Strategy is Scopus-indexed (Q1, CiteScore 11.3), ABDC B, ABS / AJG 1. It is covered by India's One Nation One Subscription scheme for reading access. Published by Emerald Group Publishing.
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ISSN 0275-6668Verify ISSN ↗2052-1197Verify ISSN ↗
Publisher: Emerald Group Publishing
Cost to publish: No APC data — check the publisher
| Subject area | Rank | Pctile | Q |
|---|---|---|---|
| Management Information Systems | 22 / 143 | 84th | Q1 |
| Strategy and Management | 78 / 506 | 84th | Q1 |
Not listed in: Web of Science, DOAJ, FT50, UT Dallas, ONOS (APC covered)
Yes — actively indexed in Scopus, coverage 1980–present, best quartile Q1, CiteScore 11.3.
Journal of Business Strategy is Q1 in Management Information Systems (rank 22 of 143) and Q1 in Strategy and Management (rank 78 of 506), by CiteScore 2025.
Journal of Business Strategy 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 11.3, quartile Q1, 84th percentile. Any "impact factor" quoted elsewhere is not the Clarivate metric. Its SCImago Journal Rank (SJR, a free Scopus-based metric) is 0.927, quartile Q1, with an H-index of 57.
Journal of Business Strategy is published by Emerald Group Publishing. Its print ISSN is 0275-6668 and its online ISSN is 2052-1197.
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 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.
No — it is not registered as an open-access journal in DOAJ or Scopus.
Journal of Business Strategy has an h-index of 88 and a 2-year mean of 1.6 citations per paper (OpenAlex). Its Scopus CiteScore is 11.3, quartile Q1. On 2-year citations it ranks #79 of 137 Scopus journals in Management Information Systems.
Journal of Business Strategy published 22 papers in 2025; its busiest recent year was 2018 with 68. 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 (2023–2026), authors are most often from United States (29.3%), India (10.1%) and France (10.1%).
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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