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Schmalenbach Journal of Business Research is Scopus-indexed (Q1, CiteScore 4.1), ABS / AJG 2, DOAJ. Published by Springer Gabler.
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ISSN 0341-2687Verify ISSN ↗2366-6153Verify ISSN ↗
Publisher: Springer Gabler
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| Subject area | Rank | Pctile | Q |
|---|---|---|---|
| Economics, Econometrics and Finance (all) | 62 / 289 | 78th | Q1 |
| Business, Management and Accounting (all) | 99 / 235 | 58th | Q2 |
| Management of Technology and Innovation | 140 / 317 | 55th | Q2 |
Not listed in: Web of Science, ABDC, FT50, UT Dallas, ONOS (subscription), ONOS (APC covered)
Yes — actively indexed in Scopus, coverage 2016–present (also 1976), best quartile Q1, CiteScore 4.1.
Schmalenbach Journal of Business Research is Q1 in Economics, Econometrics and Finance (all) (rank 62 of 289), Q2 in Business, Management and Accounting (all) (rank 99 of 235) and Q2 in Management of Technology and Innovation (rank 140 of 317), by CiteScore 2025.
Schmalenbach Journal of Business Research is not in the Web of Science Core Collection (SCIE, SSCI, AHCI or ESCI), so Clarivate publishes no Journal Impact Factor for it. Its Scopus CiteScore is 4.1, quartile Q1, 78th percentile. Any "impact factor" quoted elsewhere is not the Clarivate metric. Its SCImago Journal Rank (SJR, a free Scopus-based metric) is 0.440, quartile Q2, with an H-index of 39.
No article processing charge is recorded for it (source: OpenAlex). Confirm on the journal's own website, since some journals charge for extras such as colour figures.
Schmalenbach Journal of Business Research is published by Springer Gabler. Its print ISSN is 0341-2687 and its online ISSN is 2366-6153.
No — it is not currently in the Web of Science core collections (SCIE, SSCI, AHCI or ESCI).
It is graded 2 in the Chartered Association of Business Schools (ABS) Academic Journal Guide (AJG) 2024, in the Ethics, Corporate Social Responsibility and Management field, unchanged from 2021.
Yes — it is an open-access journal, listed in DOAJ.
Schmalenbach Journal of Business Research has an h-index of 32 and a 2-year mean of 3.01 citations per paper (OpenAlex). Its Scopus CiteScore is 4.1, quartile Q1. On 2-year citations it ranks #34 of 269 Scopus journals in Economics, Econometrics and Finance (all).
Schmalenbach Journal of Business Research published 32 papers in 2025. 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 (2022–2026), authors are most often from Germany (68.3%), Austria (8.2%) and Denmark (4%). 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.
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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