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Vikalpa is Scopus-indexed (Q3, CiteScore 2.2), ABS / AJG 1, DOAJ. Published by SAGE Publications Ltd.
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ISSN 0256-0909Verify ISSN ↗2395-3799Verify ISSN ↗
Publisher: SAGE Publications Ltd
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| Subject area | Rank | Pctile | Q |
|---|---|---|---|
| Business, Management and Accounting (all) | 138 / 235 | 41st | Q3 |
| Decision Sciences (all) | 35 / 43 | 19th | Q4 |
Not listed in: Web of Science, ABDC, FT50, UT Dallas, ONOS (subscription), ONOS (APC covered)
Yes — actively indexed in Scopus, coverage 1996–present (also 1994, 1986, 1981–1982), best quartile Q3, CiteScore 2.2.
Vikalpa is Q3 in Business, Management and Accounting (all) (rank 138 of 235) and Q4 in Decision Sciences (all) (rank 35 of 43), by CiteScore 2025.
Vikalpa 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 2.2, quartile Q3, 41st percentile. Any "impact factor" quoted elsewhere is not the Clarivate metric. Its SCImago Journal Rank (SJR, a free Scopus-based metric) is 0.297, quartile Q3, with an H-index of 39.
No article processing charge is recorded for it (source: OpenAlex). Confirm on the journal's own website, since some journals charge for extras such as colour figures.
Vikalpa is published by SAGE Publications Ltd. Its print ISSN is 0256-0909 and its online ISSN is 2395-3799.
No — it is not currently in the Web of Science core collections (SCIE, SSCI, AHCI or ESCI).
It is graded 1 in the Chartered Association of Business Schools (ABS) Academic Journal Guide (AJG) 2024, in the Ethics, Corporate Social Responsibility and Management field, unchanged from 2021.
Yes — it is an open-access journal, listed in DOAJ.
Vikalpa has an h-index of 54 and a 2-year mean of 1.96 citations per paper (OpenAlex). Its Scopus CiteScore is 2.2, quartile Q3. On 2-year citations it ranks #100 of 221 Scopus journals in Business, Management and Accounting (all).
Vikalpa published 29 papers in 2025; its busiest recent year was 2024 with 29. 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 89 research articles (2022–2026), authors are most often from India (87.6%), United States (2.8%) and Peru (1.1%). 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. 2 retracted papers are recorded (1 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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