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Journal of Small Business Strategy is Scopus-indexed (Q2, CiteScore 4.9), ABDC C, DOAJ. Published by Middle Tennessee State University.
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ISSN 1081-8510Verify ISSN ↗2380-1751Verify ISSN ↗
Publisher: Middle Tennessee State University
Cost to publish: Checking DOAJ for article charges…
| Subject area | Rank | Pctile | Q |
|---|---|---|---|
| Strategy and Management | 210 / 506 | 58th | Q2 |
Not listed in: Web of Science, ABS / AJG, FT50, UT Dallas, ONOS (subscription), ONOS (APC covered)
Yes — actively indexed in Scopus, coverage 2013–present, best quartile Q2, CiteScore 4.9.
Journal of Small Business Strategy is Q2 in Strategy and Management (rank 210 of 506), by CiteScore 2025.
Journal of Small Business Strategy is not in the Web of Science Core Collection (SCIE, SSCI, AHCI or ESCI), so Clarivate publishes no Journal Impact Factor for it. Its Scopus CiteScore is 4.9, quartile Q2, 58th percentile. Any "impact factor" quoted elsewhere is not the Clarivate metric. Its SCImago Journal Rank (SJR, a free Scopus-based metric) is 0.555, quartile Q2, with an H-index of 27.
Journal of Small Business Strategy is published by Middle Tennessee State University. Its print ISSN is 1081-8510 and its online ISSN is 2380-1751.
No — it is not currently in the Web of Science core collections (SCIE, SSCI, AHCI or ESCI).
It is rated C in the ABDC Journal Quality List 2025 under Strategy, management and organisational behaviour.
Yes — it is an open-access journal, listed in DOAJ.
Journal of Small Business Strategy has an h-index of 25 and a 2-year mean of 3.35 citations per paper (OpenAlex). Its Scopus CiteScore is 4.9, quartile Q2. On 2-year citations it ranks #134 of 476 Scopus journals in Strategy and Management.
Journal of Small Business Strategy published 24 papers in 2025; its busiest recent year was 2021 with 40. 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 (2022–2026), authors are most often from United States (39.3%), India (7.8%) and Indonesia (6.2%).
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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