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Small Business Economics is Scopus-indexed (Q1, CiteScore 14.2), ABDC A, ABS / AJG 3, WoS SSCI. It is covered by India's One Nation One Subscription scheme for reading access. Published by Springer International Publishing.
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ISSN 0921-898XVerify ISSN ↗1573-0913Verify ISSN ↗
Publisher: Springer International Publishing
Cost to publish: About US$3,090 to publish open access (publisher list price, via OpenAlex) — subscription publishing may be free
| Subject area | Rank | Pctile | Q |
|---|---|---|---|
| Economics and Econometrics | 27 / 755 | 96th | Q1 |
| Business, Management and Accounting (all) | 11 / 235 | 95th | Q1 |
Not listed in: DOAJ, FT50, UT Dallas, ONOS (APC covered)
Yes — actively indexed in Scopus, coverage 1989–present, best quartile Q1, CiteScore 14.2.
Small Business Economics is Q1 in Economics and Econometrics (rank 27 of 755) and Q1 in Business, Management and Accounting (all) (rank 11 of 235), by CiteScore 2025.
Small Business Economics 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 14.2, which places it in quartile Q1 at the 96th percentile of its subject. Its SCImago Journal Rank (SJR, a free Scopus-based metric) is 2.618, quartile Q1, with an H-index of 196.
The publisher lists an article processing charge of about US$3,090 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.
Small Business Economics is published by Springer International Publishing. Its print ISSN is 0921-898X and its online ISSN is 1573-0913.
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 Entrepreneurship and Small Business Management field, unchanged from 2021.
No — it is not registered as an open-access journal in DOAJ or Scopus.
Small Business Economics has an h-index of 239 and a 2-year mean of 5.64 citations per paper (OpenAlex). Its Scopus CiteScore is 14.2, quartile Q1. On 2-year citations it ranks #62 of 744 Scopus journals in Economics and Econometrics.
Small Business Economics published 163 papers in 2025; its busiest recent year was 2019 with 164. 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 (2026), authors are most often from United States (25.3%), United Kingdom (9.5%) and Germany (7.2%).
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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