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Journal of Consumer Behaviour is Scopus-indexed (Q1, CiteScore 10.1), ABDC A, ABS / AJG 2, WoS SSCI. It is covered by India's One Nation One Subscription scheme for reading access. Published by Wiley-Blackwell Publishing.
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ISSN 1472-0817Verify ISSN ↗1479-1838Verify ISSN ↗
Publisher: Wiley-Blackwell Publishing
Cost to publish: About US$3,350 to publish open access (publisher list price, via OpenAlex) — subscription publishing may be free
| Subject area | Rank | Pctile | Q |
|---|---|---|---|
| Social Psychology | 12 / 315 | 96th | Q1 |
| Applied Psychology | 31 / 258 | 88th | Q1 |
Not listed in: DOAJ, FT50, UT Dallas, ONOS (APC covered)
Yes — actively indexed in Scopus, coverage 2009–present, best quartile Q1, CiteScore 10.1.
Journal of Consumer Behaviour is Q1 in Social Psychology (rank 12 of 315) and Q1 in Applied Psychology (rank 31 of 258), by CiteScore 2025.
Journal of Consumer Behaviour 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 10.1, which places it in quartile Q1 at the 96th percentile of its subject. Its SCImago Journal Rank (SJR, a free Scopus-based metric) is 1.667, quartile Q1, with an H-index of 80.
The publisher lists an article processing charge of about US$3,350 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 Consumer Behaviour is published by Wiley-Blackwell Publishing. Its print ISSN is 1472-0817 and its online ISSN is 1479-1838.
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 2 in the Chartered Association of Business Schools (ABS) Academic Journal Guide (AJG) 2024, in the Marketing field, unchanged from 2021.
No — it is not registered as an open-access journal in DOAJ or Scopus.
Journal of Consumer Behaviour has an h-index of 123 and a 2-year mean of 6.35 citations per paper (OpenAlex). Its Scopus CiteScore is 10.1, quartile Q1. On 2-year citations it ranks #7 of 308 Scopus journals in Social Psychology.
Journal of Consumer Behaviour published 172 papers in 2025; its busiest recent year was 2023 with 177. 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 (2026), authors are most often from China (32%), United States (15.7%) and India (10.6%).
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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