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Journal of Creating Value is Scopus-indexed (Q2, CiteScore 2.8), ABDC C, ABS / AJG 1, WoS ESCI. It is covered by India's One Nation One Subscription scheme for reading access. Published by Sage Publications.
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ISSN 2394-9643Verify ISSN ↗2454-213XVerify ISSN ↗
Publisher: Sage Publications
Cost to publish: About US$3,400 to publish open access (publisher list price, via OpenAlex) — subscription publishing may be free
| Subject area | Rank | Pctile | Q |
|---|---|---|---|
| Business, Management and Accounting (miscellaneous) | 106 / 235 | 55th | Q2 |
| Business and International Management | 244 / 456 | 46th | Q3 |
| Marketing | 136 / 221 | 38th | Q3 |
Not listed in: DOAJ, FT50, UT Dallas, ONOS (APC covered)
Yes — actively indexed in Scopus, coverage 2015–present, best quartile Q2, CiteScore 2.8.
Journal of Creating Value is Q2 in Business, Management and Accounting (miscellaneous) (rank 106 of 235), Q3 in Business and International Management (rank 244 of 456) and Q3 in Marketing (rank 136 of 221), by CiteScore 2025.
Journal of Creating Value is indexed in the Emerging Sources 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 2.8, which places it in quartile Q2 at the 55th percentile of its subject. Its SCImago Journal Rank (SJR, a free Scopus-based metric) is 0.368, quartile Q3, with an H-index of 20.
The publisher lists an article processing charge of about US$3,400 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 Creating Value is published by Sage Publications. Its print ISSN is 2394-9643 and its online ISSN is 2454-213X.
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 Emerging Sources Citation Index.
It is rated C in the ABDC Journal Quality List 2025 under Marketing.
It is graded 1 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 Creating Value has an h-index of 24 and a 2-year mean of 1.08 citations per paper (OpenAlex). Its Scopus CiteScore is 2.8, quartile Q2. On 2-year citations it ranks #134 of 224 Scopus journals in Business, Management and Accounting (miscellaneous).
Journal of Creating Value published 17 papers in 2025; its busiest recent year was 2020 with 32. 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 88 research articles (2021–2026), authors are most often from India (15.9%), France (9.7%) and United States (9.1%).
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.
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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