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SpringerBriefs in Business is Scopus-indexed (Q4, CiteScore 0.4). Published by Springer International Publishing.
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ISSN 2191-5482Verify ISSN ↗2191-5490Verify ISSN ↗
Publisher: Springer International Publishing
Cost to publish: No APC data — check the publisher
| Subject area | Rank | Pctile | Q |
|---|---|---|---|
| Business, Management and Accounting (all) | 217 / 235 | 7th | Q4 |
| Finance | 332 / 342 | 3rd | Q4 |
Not listed in: Web of Science, DOAJ, ABDC, ABS / AJG, FT50, UT Dallas, ONOS (subscription), ONOS (APC covered)
Yes — actively indexed in Scopus, coverage 2011–present, best quartile Q4, CiteScore 0.4.
SpringerBriefs in Business is Q4 in Business, Management and Accounting (all) (rank 217 of 235) and Q4 in Finance (rank 332 of 342), by CiteScore 2025.
SpringerBriefs in Business 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 0.4, quartile Q4, 7th percentile. Any "impact factor" quoted elsewhere is not the Clarivate metric.
SpringerBriefs in Business is published by Springer International Publishing. Its print ISSN is 2191-5482 and its online ISSN is 2191-5490.
No — it is not currently in the Web of Science core collections (SCIE, SSCI, AHCI or ESCI).
No — it is not registered as an open-access journal in DOAJ or Scopus.
SpringerBriefs in Business has an h-index of 25 and a 2-year mean of 0.6 citations per paper (OpenAlex). Its Scopus CiteScore is 0.4, quartile Q4. On 2-year citations it ranks #169 of 221 Scopus journals in Business, Management and Accounting (all).
SpringerBriefs in Business published 41 papers in 2025; its busiest recent year was 2022 with 96. 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.
Scopus status: Active. 1 retracted paper is recorded (0.9 per 1,000 papers). 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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