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World Tax Journal is Scopus-indexed (Q2, CiteScore 1.7), ABDC B, ABS / AJG 1, WoS ESCI. Published by International Bureau of Fiscal Documentation.
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ISSN 1878-4917Verify ISSN ↗2352-9237Verify ISSN ↗
Publisher: International Bureau of Fiscal Documentation
Cost to publish: No APC data — check the publisher
| Subject area | Rank | Pctile | Q |
|---|---|---|---|
| Law | 439 / 1162 | 62nd | Q2 |
| Finance | 217 / 342 | 36th | Q3 |
| Accounting | 127 / 191 | 33rd | Q3 |
| Economics and Econometrics | 502 / 755 | 33rd | Q3 |
Not listed in: DOAJ, FT50, UT Dallas, ONOS (subscription), ONOS (APC covered)
Yes — actively indexed in Scopus, coverage 2019–present, best quartile Q2, CiteScore 1.7.
World Tax Journal is Q2 in Law (rank 439 of 1162), Q3 in Finance (rank 217 of 342) and Q3 in Accounting (rank 127 of 191), by CiteScore 2025. It is ranked in 4 subject areas in all.
World Tax 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 1.7, which places it in quartile Q2 at the 62nd percentile of its subject. Its SCImago Journal Rank (SJR, a free Scopus-based metric) is 0.943, quartile Q1, with an H-index of 11.
World Tax Journal is published by International Bureau of Fiscal Documentation. Its print ISSN is 1878-4917 and its online ISSN is 2352-9237.
Yes — indexed in the Emerging Sources Citation Index.
It is rated B in the ABDC Journal Quality List 2025 under Commercial law.
It is graded 1 in the Chartered Association of Business Schools (ABS) Academic Journal Guide (AJG) 2024, in the Accounting field, unchanged from 2021.
No — it is not registered as an open-access journal in DOAJ or Scopus.
World Tax Journal has an h-index of 29 and a 2-year mean of 1.25 citations per paper (OpenAlex). Its Scopus CiteScore is 1.7, quartile Q2. On 2-year citations it ranks #234 of 1,057 Scopus journals in Law.
World Tax Journal published 17 papers in 2025; its busiest recent year was 2024 with 25. 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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