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World Scientific-Now Publishers Series in Business is Scopus-indexed (Q4, CiteScore 0.4). Published by World Scientific.
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ISSN 2251-3442Verify ISSN ↗
Publisher: World Scientific
Cost to publish: No APC data — check the publisher
| Subject area | Rank | Pctile | Q |
|---|---|---|---|
| Business, Management and Accounting (all) | 216 / 235 | 8th | 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 2023–2024 (also 2018–2020), best quartile Q4, CiteScore 0.4.
World Scientific-Now Publishers Series in Business is Q4 in Business, Management and Accounting (all) (rank 216 of 235), by CiteScore 2025.
World Scientific-Now Publishers Series 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, 8th percentile. Any "impact factor" quoted elsewhere is not the Clarivate metric. Its SCImago Journal Rank (SJR, a free Scopus-based metric) is 0.133, quartile Q4, with an H-index of 3.
World Scientific-Now Publishers Series in Business is published by World Scientific. Its ISSN is 2251-3442.
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.
World Scientific-Now Publishers Series in Business has an h-index of 14 and a 2-year mean of 0.11 citations per paper (OpenAlex). Its Scopus CiteScore is 0.4, quartile Q4. On 2-year citations it ranks #199 of 221 Scopus journals in Business, Management and Accounting (all).
World Scientific-Now Publishers Series in Business published 9 papers in 2024; its busiest recent year was 2014 with 70. 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. 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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