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Journal of International Management is Scopus-indexed (Q1, CiteScore 9.4), ABDC A, ABS / AJG 3, WoS SSCI. It is covered by India's One Nation One Subscription scheme for reading access. Published by Elsevier.
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ISSN 1075-4253Verify ISSN ↗1873-0620Verify ISSN ↗
Publisher: Elsevier
Cost to publish: About US$4,020 to publish open access (publisher list price, via OpenAlex) — subscription publishing may be free
| Subject area | Rank | Pctile | Q |
|---|---|---|---|
| Finance | 32 / 342 | 90th | Q1 |
| Business and International Management | 78 / 456 | 83rd | Q1 |
| Strategy and Management | 96 / 506 | 81st | Q1 |
Not listed in: DOAJ, FT50, UT Dallas, ONOS (APC covered)
Yes — actively indexed in Scopus, coverage 1998–present, best quartile Q1, CiteScore 9.4.
Journal of International Management is Q1 in Finance (rank 32 of 342), Q1 in Business and International Management (rank 78 of 456) and Q1 in Strategy and Management (rank 96 of 506), by CiteScore 2025.
Journal of International Management 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 9.4, which places it in quartile Q1 at the 90th percentile of its subject. Its SCImago Journal Rank (SJR, a free Scopus-based metric) is 1.667, quartile Q1, with an H-index of 96.
The publisher lists an article processing charge of about US$4,020 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 International Management is published by Elsevier. Its print ISSN is 1075-4253 and its online ISSN is 1873-0620.
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 3 in the Chartered Association of Business Schools (ABS) Academic Journal Guide (AJG) 2024, in the International Business and Area Studies field, unchanged from 2021.
No — it is not registered as an open-access journal in DOAJ or Scopus.
Journal of International Management has an h-index of 111 and a 2-year mean of 3.7 citations per paper (OpenAlex). Its Scopus CiteScore is 9.4, quartile Q1. On 2-year citations it ranks #72 of 335 Scopus journals in Finance.
Journal of International Management published 64 papers in 2025; its busiest recent year was 2023 with 76. 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 96 research articles (2025–2026), authors are most often from China (21.2%), United Kingdom (18.9%) and United States (13.4%).
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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