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R and D Management is Scopus-indexed (Q1, CiteScore 12), ABDC A, ABS / AJG 3, WoS SSCI. It is covered by India's One Nation One Subscription scheme for reading access. Published by Wiley-Blackwell Publishing.
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ISSN 0033-6807Verify ISSN ↗1467-9310Verify ISSN ↗
Publisher: Wiley-Blackwell Publishing
Cost to publish: About US$3,620 to publish open access (publisher list price, via OpenAlex) — subscription publishing may be free
| Subject area | Rank | Pctile | Q |
|---|---|---|---|
| Business, Management and Accounting (all) | 17 / 235 | 92nd | Q1 |
| Business and International Management | 44 / 456 | 90th | Q1 |
| Strategy and Management | 65 / 506 | 87th | Q1 |
| Management of Technology and Innovation | 44 / 317 | 86th | Q1 |
Not listed in: DOAJ, FT50, UT Dallas, ONOS (APC covered)
Yes — actively indexed in Scopus, coverage 1970–present, best quartile Q1, CiteScore 12.
R and D Management is Q1 in Business, Management and Accounting (all) (rank 17 of 235), Q1 in Business and International Management (rank 44 of 456) and Q1 in Strategy and Management (rank 65 of 506), by CiteScore 2025. It is ranked in 4 subject areas in all.
R and D Management 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 12, which places it in quartile Q1 at the 92nd percentile of its subject. Its SCImago Journal Rank (SJR, a free Scopus-based metric) is 1.839, quartile Q1, with an H-index of 127.
The publisher lists an article processing charge of about US$3,620 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.
R and D Management is published by Wiley-Blackwell Publishing. Its print ISSN is 0033-6807 and its online ISSN is 1467-9310.
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 Social Sciences Citation Index.
It is rated A in the ABDC Journal Quality List 2025 under Strategy, management and organisational behaviour.
It is graded 3 in the Chartered Association of Business Schools (ABS) Academic Journal Guide (AJG) 2024, in the Innovation field, unchanged from 2021.
No — it is not registered as an open-access journal in DOAJ or Scopus.
R and D Management has an h-index of 151 and a 2-year mean of 5.21 citations per paper (OpenAlex). Its Scopus CiteScore is 12, quartile Q1. On 2-year citations it ranks #28 of 221 Scopus journals in Business, Management and Accounting (all).
R and D Management published 77 papers in 2025; its busiest recent year was 2024 with 87. 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 100 research articles (2024–2026), authors are most often from China (22.3%), Germany (12.3%) and Italy (12.1%).
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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