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Southern African Journal of Entrepreneurship and Small Business Management is Scopus-indexed (Q3, CiteScore 2.1), WoS ESCI, DOAJ. Published by AOSIS (Pty) Ltd.
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ISSN 2071-3185Verify ISSN ↗2522-7343Verify ISSN ↗
Publisher: AOSIS (Pty) Ltd
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| Subject area | Rank | Pctile | Q |
|---|---|---|---|
| Development | 167 / 314 | 46th | Q3 |
| Economics and Econometrics | 445 / 755 | 41st | Q3 |
| Business and International Management | 297 / 456 | 34th | Q3 |
| Strategy and Management | 330 / 506 | 34th | 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 Q3, CiteScore 2.1.
Southern African Journal of Entrepreneurship and Small Business Management is Q3 in Development (rank 167 of 314), Q3 in Economics and Econometrics (rank 445 of 755) and Q3 in Business and International Management (rank 297 of 456), by CiteScore 2025. It is ranked in 4 subject areas in all.
Southern African Journal of Entrepreneurship and Small Business Management 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 2.1, which places it in quartile Q3 at the 46th percentile of its subject. Its SCImago Journal Rank (SJR, a free Scopus-based metric) is 0.291, quartile Q3, with an H-index of 12.
The publisher lists an article processing charge of about US$834 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.
Southern African Journal of Entrepreneurship and Small Business Management is published by AOSIS (Pty) Ltd. Its print ISSN is 2071-3185 and its online ISSN is 2522-7343.
Yes — indexed in the Emerging Sources Citation Index.
Yes — it is an open-access journal, listed in DOAJ.
Southern African Journal of Entrepreneurship and Small Business Management has an h-index of 24 and a 2-year mean of 2.77 citations per paper (OpenAlex). Its Scopus CiteScore is 2.1, quartile Q3. On 2-year citations it ranks #58 of 299 Scopus journals in Development.
Southern African Journal of Entrepreneurship and Small Business Management published 38 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 94 research articles (2022–2026), authors are most often from South Africa (76.1%), Indonesia (9.6%) and Norway (6.9%). 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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