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WSEAS Transactions on Business and Economics is Scopus-indexed (Q3, CiteScore 2), formerly ABDC C. Published by World Scientific and Engineering Academy and Society.
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ISSN 1109-9526Verify ISSN ↗2224-2899Verify ISSN ↗
Publisher: World Scientific and Engineering Academy and Society
Cost to publish: No APC data — check the publisher
| Subject area | Rank | Pctile | Q |
|---|---|---|---|
| Economics and Econometrics | 459 / 755 | 39th | Q3 |
| Organizational Behavior and Human Resource Management | 159 / 254 | 37th | Q3 |
| Strategy and Management | 337 / 506 | 33rd | Q3 |
| Marketing | 155 / 221 | 30th | Q3 |
Not listed in: Web of Science, DOAJ, ABS / AJG, FT50, UT Dallas, ONOS (subscription), ONOS (APC covered)
Yes — actively indexed in Scopus, coverage 2017–present (also 2009–2015), best quartile Q3, CiteScore 2.
WSEAS Transactions on Business and Economics is Q3 in Economics and Econometrics (rank 459 of 755), Q3 in Organizational Behavior and Human Resource Management (rank 159 of 254) and Q3 in Strategy and Management (rank 337 of 506), by CiteScore 2025. It is ranked in 4 subject areas in all.
WSEAS Transactions on Business and Economics 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, quartile Q3, 39th percentile. Any "impact factor" quoted elsewhere is not the Clarivate metric. Its SCImago Journal Rank (SJR, a free Scopus-based metric) is 0.214, quartile Q4, with an H-index of 26.
WSEAS Transactions on Business and Economics is published by World Scientific and Engineering Academy and Society. Its print ISSN is 1109-9526 and its online ISSN is 2224-2899.
No — it is not currently in the Web of Science core collections (SCIE, SSCI, AHCI or ESCI).
It was rated C in the 2016 ABDC list but is not in the current 2025 Journal Quality List.
No — it is not registered as an open-access journal in DOAJ or Scopus.
WSEAS Transactions on Business and Economics has an h-index of 29 and a 2-year mean of 1.67 citations per paper (OpenAlex). Its Scopus CiteScore is 2, quartile Q3. On 2-year citations it ranks #336 of 744 Scopus journals in Economics and Econometrics.
WSEAS Transactions on Business and Economics published 213 papers in 2025; its busiest recent year was 2023 with 244. 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 (2026), authors are most often from Malaysia (12%), Indonesia (10.4%) and Albania (8.6%).
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.
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