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TQM Journal is Scopus-indexed (Q1, CiteScore 12.8), 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.
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ISSN 1754-2731Verify ISSN ↗1754-274XVerify ISSN ↗
Publisher: Emerald Group Publishing
Cost to publish: No APC data — check the publisher
| Subject area | Rank | Pctile | Q |
|---|---|---|---|
| Business, Management and Accounting (all) | 13 / 235 | 94th | Q1 |
| Business and International Management | 41 / 456 | 91st | Q1 |
| Strategy and Management | 58 / 506 | 88th | Q1 |
| Decision Sciences (all) | 8 / 43 | 82nd | Q1 |
Not listed in: DOAJ, FT50, UT Dallas, ONOS (APC covered)
Yes — actively indexed in Scopus, coverage 2008–present, best quartile Q1, CiteScore 12.8.
TQM Journal is Q1 in Business, Management and Accounting (all) (rank 13 of 235), Q1 in Business and International Management (rank 41 of 456) and Q1 in Strategy and Management (rank 58 of 506), by CiteScore 2025. It is ranked in 4 subject areas in all.
TQM 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 12.8, which places it in quartile Q1 at the 94th percentile of its subject. Its SCImago Journal Rank (SJR, a free Scopus-based metric) is 0.971, quartile Q1, with an H-index of 89.
TQM Journal is published by Emerald Group Publishing. Its print ISSN is 1754-2731 and its online ISSN is 1754-274X.
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 Strategy, management and organisational behaviour.
It is graded 1 in the Chartered Association of Business Schools (ABS) Academic Journal Guide (AJG) 2024, in the Operations and Technology Management field, unchanged from 2021.
No — it is not registered as an open-access journal in DOAJ or Scopus.
TQM Journal has an h-index of 114 and a 2-year mean of 5.4 citations per paper (OpenAlex). Its Scopus CiteScore is 12.8, quartile Q1. On 2-year citations it ranks #24 of 221 Scopus journals in Business, Management and Accounting (all).
TQM Journal published 98 papers in 2025; its busiest recent year was 2020 with 142. 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 (2025–2026), authors are most often from India (15.2%), Italy (14.6%) and United Kingdom (6%).
Countries are counted fractionally, so a paper by authors from two countries counts half to each.
Scopus status: Active. 3 retracted papers are recorded (1.2 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.
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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