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Journal of Business Venturing is Scopus-indexed (Q1, CiteScore 15.4), ABDC A*, ABS / AJG 4*, WoS SSCI, FT50. It is covered by India's One Nation One Subscription scheme for reading access. Published by Elsevier.
Checked against the index lists dated .
ISSN 0883-9026Verify ISSN ↗1873-2003Verify ISSN ↗
Publisher: Elsevier
Cost to publish: About US$4,130 to publish open access (publisher list price, via OpenAlex) — subscription publishing may be free
| Subject area | Rank | Pctile | Q |
|---|---|---|---|
| Business and International Management | 27 / 456 | 94th | Q1 |
| Management of Technology and Innovation | 22 / 317 | 93rd | Q1 |
Not listed in: DOAJ, UT Dallas, ONOS (APC covered)
Yes — actively indexed in Scopus, coverage 1985–present, best quartile Q1, CiteScore 15.4.
Journal of Business Venturing is Q1 in Business and International Management (rank 27 of 456) and Q1 in Management of Technology and Innovation (rank 22 of 317), by CiteScore 2025.
Journal of Business Venturing 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 15.4, which places it in quartile Q1 at the 94th percentile of its subject. Its SCImago Journal Rank (SJR, a free Scopus-based metric) is 5.778, quartile Q1, with an H-index of 246.
The publisher lists an article processing charge of about US$4,130 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 Venturing is published by Elsevier. Its print ISSN is 0883-9026 and its online ISSN is 1873-2003.
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 Strategy, management and organisational behaviour.
It is graded 4* in the Chartered Association of Business Schools (ABS) Academic Journal Guide (AJG) 2024, in the Entrepreneurship and Small Business Management field (up from 4 in 2021).
No — it is not registered as an open-access journal in DOAJ or Scopus.
Journal of Business Venturing has an h-index of 323 and a 2-year mean of 7.48 citations per paper (OpenAlex). Its Scopus CiteScore is 15.4, quartile Q1. On 2-year citations it ranks #24 of 424 Scopus journals in Business and International Management.
Journal of Business Venturing published 59 papers in 2025; its busiest recent year was 2018 with 79. 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 91 research articles (2024–2026), authors are most often from United States (33.1%), United Kingdom (11.5%) and Germany (8.8%).
Countries are counted fractionally, so a paper by authors from two countries counts half to each.
Scopus status: Active. 2 retracted papers are recorded (1.1 per 1,000 papers). 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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