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Journal of Investment Strategies is Scopus-indexed (Q4, CiteScore 0.2), ABS / AJG 1, WoS ESCI. Published by Infopro digital.
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ISSN 2047-1238Verify ISSN ↗2047-1246Verify ISSN ↗
Publisher: Infopro digital
Cost to publish: No APC data — check the publisher
| Subject area | Rank | Pctile | Q |
|---|---|---|---|
| Economics, Econometrics and Finance (all) | 274 / 289 | 5th | Q4 |
| Strategy and Management | 492 / 506 | 2nd | Q4 |
Not listed in: DOAJ, ABDC, FT50, UT Dallas, ONOS (subscription), ONOS (APC covered)
Yes — actively indexed in Scopus, coverage 2018–2025, best quartile Q4, CiteScore 0.2.
Journal of Investment Strategies is Q4 in Economics, Econometrics and Finance (all) (rank 274 of 289) and Q4 in Strategy and Management (rank 492 of 506), by CiteScore 2025.
Journal of Investment Strategies 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 0.2, which places it in quartile Q4 at the 5th percentile of its subject. Its SCImago Journal Rank (SJR, a free Scopus-based metric) is 0.113, quartile Q4, with an H-index of 4.
Journal of Investment Strategies is published by Infopro digital. Its print ISSN is 2047-1238 and its online ISSN is 2047-1246.
Yes — indexed in the Emerging Sources Citation Index.
It is graded 1 in the Chartered Association of Business Schools (ABS) Academic Journal Guide (AJG) 2024, in the Finance field, unchanged from 2021.
No — it is not registered as an open-access journal in DOAJ or Scopus.
Journal of Investment Strategies has an h-index of 14 and a 2-year mean of 0.41 citations per paper (OpenAlex). Its Scopus CiteScore is 0.2, quartile Q4. On 2-year citations it ranks #204 of 269 Scopus journals in Economics, Econometrics and Finance (all).
Journal of Investment Strategies published 6 papers in 2025; its busiest recent year was 2017 with 16. 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.
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.
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