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Sport, Business and Management: An International Journal is Scopus-indexed (Q2, CiteScore 3.7), ABDC B, ABS / AJG 1, WoS ESCI. It is covered by India's One Nation One Subscription scheme for reading access. Published by Emerald Group Publishing Limited.
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ISSN 2042-678XVerify ISSN ↗2042-6798Verify ISSN ↗
Publisher: Emerald Group Publishing Limited
Cost to publish: No APC data — check the publisher
| Subject area | Rank | Pctile | Q |
|---|---|---|---|
| Business and International Management | 208 / 456 | 54th | Q2 |
| Strategy and Management | 250 / 506 | 50th | Q2 |
| Tourism, Leisure and Hospitality Management | 79 / 156 | 49th | Q3 |
| Marketing | 120 / 221 | 45th | Q3 |
Not listed in: DOAJ, FT50, UT Dallas, ONOS (APC covered)
Yes — actively indexed in Scopus, coverage 2011–present, best quartile Q2, CiteScore 3.7.
Sport, Business and Management: An International Journal is Q2 in Business and International Management (rank 208 of 456), Q2 in Strategy and Management (rank 250 of 506) and Q3 in Tourism, Leisure and Hospitality Management (rank 79 of 156), by CiteScore 2025. It is ranked in 4 subject areas in all.
Sport, Business and Management: An International Journal 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 3.7, which places it in quartile Q2 at the 54th percentile of its subject. Its SCImago Journal Rank (SJR, a free Scopus-based metric) is 0.558, quartile Q2, with an H-index of 33.
Sport, Business and Management: An International Journal is published by Emerald Group Publishing Limited. Its print ISSN is 2042-678X and its online ISSN is 2042-6798.
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 Emerging Sources Citation Index.
It is rated B in the ABDC Journal Quality List 2025 under Commercial services.
It is graded 1 in the Chartered Association of Business Schools (ABS) Academic Journal Guide (AJG) 2024, in the Sector Studies field, unchanged from 2021.
No — it is not registered as an open-access journal in DOAJ or Scopus.
Sport, Business and Management: An International Journal has an h-index of 37 and a 2-year mean of 1.56 citations per paper (OpenAlex). Its Scopus CiteScore is 3.7, quartile Q2. On 2-year citations it ranks #242 of 424 Scopus journals in Business and International Management.
Sport, Business and Management: An International Journal published 53 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 97 research articles (2025–2026), authors are most often from United States (31.8%), United Kingdom (8.8%) and Canada (4.6%).
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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