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Journal of Industrial and Business Economics is Scopus-indexed (Q1, CiteScore 5.9), ABDC B, ABS / AJG 1, WoS ESCI. It is covered by India's One Nation One Subscription scheme for reading access. Published by Springer Nature.
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ISSN 0391-2078Verify ISSN ↗1972-4977Verify ISSN ↗
Publisher: Springer Nature
Cost to publish: About US$3,390 to publish open access (publisher list price, via OpenAlex) — subscription publishing may be free
| Subject area | Rank | Pctile | Q |
|---|---|---|---|
| Economics, Econometrics and Finance (all) | 27 / 289 | 90th | Q1 |
| Economics and Econometrics | 163 / 755 | 78th | Q1 |
| Business, Management and Accounting (all) | 67 / 235 | 71st | Q2 |
| Business and International Management | 147 / 456 | 67th | Q2 |
Not listed in: DOAJ, FT50, UT Dallas, ONOS (APC covered)
Yes — actively indexed in Scopus, coverage 2013–present, best quartile Q1, CiteScore 5.9.
Journal of Industrial and Business Economics is Q1 in Economics, Econometrics and Finance (all) (rank 27 of 289), Q1 in Economics and Econometrics (rank 163 of 755) and Q2 in Business, Management and Accounting (all) (rank 67 of 235), by CiteScore 2025. It is ranked in 4 subject areas in all.
Journal of Industrial and Business Economics 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 5.9, which places it in quartile Q1 at the 90th percentile of its subject. Its SCImago Journal Rank (SJR, a free Scopus-based metric) is 0.730, quartile Q1, with an H-index of 29.
The publisher lists an article processing charge of about US$3,390 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 Industrial and Business Economics is published by Springer Nature. Its print ISSN is 0391-2078 and its online ISSN is 1972-4977.
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 B in the ABDC Journal Quality List 2025 under Applied economics.
It is graded 1 in the Chartered Association of Business Schools (ABS) Academic Journal Guide (AJG) 2024, in the Economics, Econometrics and Statistics field, unchanged from 2021.
No — it is not registered as an open-access journal in DOAJ or Scopus.
Journal of Industrial and Business Economics has an h-index of 36 and a 2-year mean of 3.09 citations per paper (OpenAlex). Its Scopus CiteScore is 5.9, quartile Q1. On 2-year citations it ranks #30 of 269 Scopus journals in Economics, Econometrics and Finance (all).
Journal of Industrial and Business Economics published 45 papers in 2025; its busiest recent year was 2024 with 49. 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 97 research articles (2024–2026), authors are most often from Italy (46.4%), Spain (6.7%) and United States (6.4%).
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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