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Negotiation Journal is Scopus-indexed (Q2, CiteScore 1.5), ABDC B, ABS / AJG 2, WoS SSCI. Published by MIT Press.
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ISSN 0748-4526Verify ISSN ↗1571-9979Verify ISSN ↗
Publisher: MIT Press
Cost to publish: About US$2,630 to publish open access (publisher list price, via OpenAlex) — subscription publishing may be free
| Subject area | Rank | Pctile | Q |
|---|---|---|---|
| Social Sciences (all) | 138 / 286 | 51st | Q2 |
| Management of Technology and Innovation | 242 / 317 | 23rd | Q4 |
| Strategy and Management | 386 / 506 | 23rd | Q4 |
Not listed in: DOAJ, FT50, UT Dallas, ONOS (subscription), ONOS (APC covered)
Yes — actively indexed in Scopus, coverage 1985–present, best quartile Q2, CiteScore 1.5.
Negotiation Journal is Q2 in Social Sciences (all) (rank 138 of 286), Q4 in Management of Technology and Innovation (rank 242 of 317) and Q4 in Strategy and Management (rank 386 of 506), by CiteScore 2025.
Negotiation Journal is indexed in the Social Sciences 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 1.5, which places it in quartile Q2 at the 51st percentile of its subject. Its SCImago Journal Rank (SJR, a free Scopus-based metric) is 0.328, quartile Q2, with an H-index of 42.
The publisher lists an article processing charge of about US$2,630 for open access (source: OpenAlex). Many journals also publish by the subscription route at no cost to the author, so confirm on the journal's own website.
Negotiation Journal is published by MIT Press. Its print ISSN is 0748-4526 and its online ISSN is 1571-9979.
Yes — indexed in the Social Sciences Citation Index.
It is rated B in the ABDC Journal Quality List 2025 under Other commerce, management, tourism and services.
It is graded 2 in the Chartered Association of Business Schools (ABS) Academic Journal Guide (AJG) 2024, in the Organisation Studies field, unchanged from 2021.
No — it is not registered as an open-access journal in DOAJ or Scopus.
Negotiation Journal has an h-index of 64 and a 2-year mean of 0.68 citations per paper (OpenAlex). Its Scopus CiteScore is 1.5, quartile Q2. On 2-year citations it ranks #146 of 268 Scopus journals in Social Sciences (all).
Negotiation Journal published 30 papers in 2025; its busiest recent year was 2019 with 61. 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 45 research articles (2022–2026), authors are most often from Ireland (57.8%), United States (24.4%) and Germany (5.6%). 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. 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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