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Retos (Ecuador) is Scopus-indexed (Q2, CiteScore 3), WoS ESCI, DOAJ. Published by Universidad Politecnica Salesiana.
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ISSN 1390-6291Verify ISSN ↗1390-8618Verify ISSN ↗
Publisher: Universidad Politecnica Salesiana
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| Subject area | Rank | Pctile | Q |
|---|---|---|---|
| Public Administration | 100 / 248 | 59th | Q2 |
| Economics and Econometrics | 346 / 755 | 54th | Q2 |
| Business and International Management | 237 / 456 | 48th | Q3 |
| Management of Technology and Innovation | 165 / 317 | 48th | Q3 |
| Strategy and Management | 273 / 506 | 46th | Q3 |
| Marketing | 132 / 221 | 40th | Q3 |
Not listed in: ABDC, ABS / AJG, FT50, UT Dallas, ONOS (subscription), ONOS (APC covered)
Yes — actively indexed in Scopus, coverage 2019–present, best quartile Q2, CiteScore 3.
Retos (Ecuador) is Q2 in Public Administration (rank 100 of 248), Q2 in Economics and Econometrics (rank 346 of 755) and Q3 in Business and International Management (rank 237 of 456), by CiteScore 2025. It is ranked in 6 subject areas in all.
Retos (Ecuador) 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 3, which places it in quartile Q2 at the 59th percentile of its subject. Its SCImago Journal Rank (SJR, a free Scopus-based metric) is 0.260, quartile Q3, with an H-index of 14.
Retos (Ecuador) is published by Universidad Politecnica Salesiana. Its print ISSN is 1390-6291 and its online ISSN is 1390-8618.
Yes — indexed in the Emerging Sources Citation Index.
Yes — it is an open-access journal, listed in DOAJ.
Retos (Ecuador) has an h-index of 23 and a 2-year mean of 2.17 citations per paper (OpenAlex). Its Scopus CiteScore is 3, quartile Q2. On 2-year citations it ranks #78 of 245 Scopus journals in Public Administration.
Retos (Ecuador) published 22 papers in 2025; its busiest recent year was 2017 with 23. 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 86 research articles (2022–2026), authors are most often from Mexico (21.6%), Colombia (17.1%) and Spain (14.7%).
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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