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Maritime Business Review is Scopus-indexed (Q2, CiteScore 5.6), ABDC C, WoS ESCI. Published by Emerald.
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ISSN 2397-3757Verify ISSN ↗2397-3765Verify ISSN ↗
Publisher: Emerald
Cost to publish: No APC data — check the publisher
| Subject area | Rank | Pctile | Q |
|---|---|---|---|
| Transportation | 59 / 169 | 65th | Q2 |
| Business and International Management | 159 / 456 | 65th | Q2 |
| Management of Technology and Innovation | 114 / 317 | 64th | Q2 |
| Strategy and Management | 188 / 506 | 62nd | Q2 |
Not listed in: DOAJ, ABS / AJG, FT50, UT Dallas, ONOS (subscription), ONOS (APC covered)
Yes — actively indexed in Scopus, coverage 2016–present, best quartile Q2, CiteScore 5.6.
Maritime Business Review is Q2 in Transportation (rank 59 of 169), Q2 in Business and International Management (rank 159 of 456) and Q2 in Management of Technology and Innovation (rank 114 of 317), by CiteScore 2025. It is ranked in 4 subject areas in all.
Maritime Business Review 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 5.6, which places it in quartile Q2 at the 65th percentile of its subject. Its SCImago Journal Rank (SJR, a free Scopus-based metric) is 0.529, quartile Q2, with an H-index of 26.
Maritime Business Review is published by Emerald. Its print ISSN is 2397-3757 and its online ISSN is 2397-3765.
Yes — indexed in the Emerging Sources Citation Index.
It is rated C in the ABDC Journal Quality List 2025 under Transportation, logistics and supply chains.
No — it is not registered as an open-access journal in DOAJ or Scopus.
Maritime Business Review has an h-index of 29 and a 2-year mean of 3.22 citations per paper (OpenAlex). Its Scopus CiteScore is 5.6, quartile Q2. On 2-year citations it ranks #58 of 150 Scopus journals in Transportation.
Maritime Business Review published 25 papers in 2025; its busiest recent year was 2020 with 31. 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 99 research articles (2021–2026), authors are most often from Greece (8.4%), Vietnam (7.6%) and Türkiye (7.4%).
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.
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