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Journal of World Investment and Trade is Scopus-indexed (Q1, CiteScore 4), ABDC A, WoS ESCI. Published by Brill.
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ISSN 1660-7112Verify ISSN ↗2211-9000Verify ISSN ↗
Publisher: Brill
Cost to publish: No APC data — check the publisher
| Subject area | Rank | Pctile | Q |
|---|---|---|---|
| Law | 143 / 1162 | 87th | Q1 |
| Political Science and International Relations | 137 / 745 | 81st | Q1 |
| Economics, Econometrics and Finance (all) | 68 / 289 | 76th | Q1 |
| Business and International Management | 200 / 456 | 56th | Q2 |
Not listed in: DOAJ, ABS / AJG, FT50, UT Dallas, ONOS (subscription), ONOS (APC covered)
Yes — actively indexed in Scopus, coverage 2003–present (also 2000–2001), best quartile Q1, CiteScore 4.
Journal of World Investment and Trade is Q1 in Law (rank 143 of 1162), Q1 in Political Science and International Relations (rank 137 of 745) and Q1 in Economics, Econometrics and Finance (all) (rank 68 of 289), by CiteScore 2025. It is ranked in 4 subject areas in all.
Journal of World Investment and Trade 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 4, which places it in quartile Q1 at the 87th percentile of its subject. Its SCImago Journal Rank (SJR, a free Scopus-based metric) is 0.934, quartile Q1, with an H-index of 28.
Journal of World Investment and Trade is published by Brill. Its print ISSN is 1660-7112 and its online ISSN is 2211-9000.
Yes — indexed in the Emerging Sources Citation Index.
It is rated A in the ABDC Journal Quality List 2025 under Commercial law.
No — it is not registered as an open-access journal in DOAJ or Scopus.
Journal of World Investment and Trade has an h-index of 40 and a 2-year mean of 1.27 citations per paper (OpenAlex). Its Scopus CiteScore is 4, quartile Q1. On 2-year citations it ranks #226 of 1,057 Scopus journals in Law.
Journal of World Investment and Trade published 42 papers in 2025; its busiest recent year was 2017 with 53. 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 94 research articles (2023–2026), authors are most often from United States (10.5%), United Kingdom (9.8%) and Hong Kong SAR China (7.6%).
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.
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