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Transnational Corporations Review is Scopus-indexed (Q2, CiteScore 4.2), ABDC C, ABS / AJG 1, DOAJ. Published by Taylor & Francis Online.
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ISSN 1918-6444Verify ISSN ↗1925-2099Verify ISSN ↗
Publisher: Taylor & Francis Online
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| Subject area | Rank | Pctile | Q |
|---|---|---|---|
| Development | 92 / 314 | 70th | Q2 |
| Economics and Econometrics | 253 / 755 | 66th | Q2 |
| Finance | 119 / 342 | 65th | Q2 |
| Business and International Management | 192 / 456 | 58th | Q2 |
Not listed in: Web of Science, FT50, UT Dallas, ONOS (subscription), ONOS (APC covered)
Yes — actively indexed in Scopus, coverage 2009–2025, best quartile Q2, CiteScore 4.2.
Transnational Corporations Review is Q2 in Development (rank 92 of 314), Q2 in Economics and Econometrics (rank 253 of 755) and Q2 in Finance (rank 119 of 342), by CiteScore 2025. It is ranked in 4 subject areas in all.
Transnational Corporations Review 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 4.2, quartile Q2, 70th percentile. Any "impact factor" quoted elsewhere is not the Clarivate metric. Its SCImago Journal Rank (SJR, a free Scopus-based metric) is 0.476, quartile Q2, with an H-index of 27.
The publisher lists an article processing charge of about US$1,400 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.
Transnational Corporations Review is published by Taylor & Francis Online. Its print ISSN is 1918-6444 and its online ISSN is 1925-2099.
No — it is not currently in the Web of Science core collections (SCIE, SSCI, AHCI or ESCI).
It is rated C in the ABDC Journal Quality List 2025 under Applied economics.
It is graded 1 in the Chartered Association of Business Schools (ABS) Academic Journal Guide (AJG) 2024, in the International Business and Area Studies field, unchanged from 2021.
Yes — it is an open-access journal, listed in DOAJ.
Transnational Corporations Review has an h-index of 37 and a 2-year mean of 5.9 citations per paper (OpenAlex). Its Scopus CiteScore is 4.2, quartile Q2. On 2-year citations it ranks #16 of 299 Scopus journals in Development.
Transnational Corporations Review published 29 papers in 2025; its busiest recent year was 2023 with 279. 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 85 research articles (2022–2025), authors are most often from China (16.3%), India (8.6%) and Morocco (7.1%).
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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