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Nankai Business Review International is Scopus-indexed (Q2, CiteScore 4.6), WoS ESCI. It is covered by India's One Nation One Subscription scheme for reading access. Published by Emerald Group Publishing Ltd..
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ISSN 2040-8749Verify ISSN ↗2040-8757Verify ISSN ↗
Publisher: Emerald Group Publishing Ltd.
Cost to publish: No APC data — check the publisher
| Subject area | Rank | Pctile | Q |
|---|---|---|---|
| Business and International Management | 183 / 456 | 59th | Q2 |
| Strategy and Management | 220 / 506 | 56th | Q2 |
Not listed in: DOAJ, ABDC, ABS / AJG, FT50, UT Dallas, ONOS (APC covered)
Yes — actively indexed in Scopus, coverage 2010–present, best quartile Q2, CiteScore 4.6.
Nankai Business Review International is Q2 in Business and International Management (rank 183 of 456) and Q2 in Strategy and Management (rank 220 of 506), by CiteScore 2025.
Nankai Business Review International 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 4.6, which places it in quartile Q2 at the 59th percentile of its subject. Its SCImago Journal Rank (SJR, a free Scopus-based metric) is 0.457, quartile Q2, with an H-index of 27.
Nankai Business Review International is published by Emerald Group Publishing Ltd. Its print ISSN is 2040-8749 and its online ISSN is 2040-8757.
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 Emerging Sources Citation Index.
No — it is not registered as an open-access journal in DOAJ or Scopus.
Nankai Business Review International has an h-index of 36 and a 2-year mean of 1.45 citations per paper (OpenAlex). Its Scopus CiteScore is 4.6, quartile Q2. On 2-year citations it ranks #252 of 424 Scopus journals in Business and International Management.
Nankai Business Review International published 25 papers in 2025; its busiest recent year was 2022 with 44. 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 (2022–2026), authors are most often from China (68.7%), United States (6.8%) and India (4.7%). More than half of recent authorship comes from one country.
Countries are counted fractionally, so a paper by authors from two countries counts half to each.
Scopus status: Active. 2 retracted papers are recorded (4.4 per 1,000 papers). 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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