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Frontiers of Business Research in China

Higher Education Press Limited Company · Singapore · Est. 2007

ISSN1673-7326eISSN1673-7431

SJR Q4✓ WOS ESCI✓ Scopus / SJR

Removed from DOAJ (2022-11-08). DOAJ's stated reason: Journal is not open access. A removal from the Directory of Open Access Journals is a quality/transparency signal — it can mean the journal became inactive or failed DOAJ's re-review criteria. This is not proof of predatory practice, but verify the journal's current status and policies before submitting. Check on DOAJ ↗

Impact Factor & Quartile · Web of Science (JCR)

✓ Indexed in the Web of Science Core Collection (ESCI) — Clarivate publishes an official Journal Impact Factor and JCR quartile for this journal.

See the official Impact Factor & quartile on the journal’s page ↗

The Impact Factor & JCR quartile are licensed by Clarivate — we link you to the official source instead of reprinting a number that can go out of date. Open metrics below: SCImago Q4. Source: Clarivate Journal Citation Reports.

📊 Standing in its field

Where this journal ranks among others in the same subject area.

SJR · Scopus

Bottom 25%

Clarivate’s JCR quartile is a separate ranking and may differ

SJR Scorei

0.154

H-Indexi

SNIPi

0.396

Total Worksi

370

Total Citationsi

4,971

2yr Mean Citednessi

0.00

Open Impact Factor alternative

Aims & Scope

Subject areas: Business; Business, Management and Accounting (miscellaneous); Public Administration.

General Information

Country / RegionSingapore

Primary LanguageEnglish

1st Year Published2007

Annual Volume~ 19 articles / year

StatusActive (last: 2021)

Total Publications370

Publisher OrgBrill

Region🌍 Global South

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Submission Info

Peer Review—

OA License—

OA Rate—

Ethics & Quality

COPE Member✗ No

OASPA Member✗ No

Not on Predatory Lists✓ Yes

Think.Check.Submit Compliance

thinkchecksubmit.org

6/11 · 55%

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Do you know the journal / publisher?

Higher Education Press Limited Company

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Does the journal have a website?

✓ Linked

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Is the ISSN verified?

1673-7326 / 1673-7431

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Indexed in a trusted database?

WoS, Scopus

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Peer review process documented?

N/A

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Follows ethical publishing standards (COPE)?

N/A

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Not on predatory/blacklists?

✓ Clean

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Long-term digital preservation?

N/A

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Plagiarism detection in place?

N/A

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Listed in DOAJ (verified OA)?

N/A

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Primary language documented?

English

A twelfth criterion — whether APC fees are clearly disclosed — is not scored here; it is left out of the total rather than counted as a failure. Publication charges appear in the metrics card above.

Based on the Think.Check.Submit framework by DOAJ, COPE & OASPA. All data from verified open sources.

Publication & Citation Trend

Articles published

Citations received

2014

2015

2016

418

2017

634

2018

457

2019

1.1k

2020

268

2021

Source: OpenAlex · Each year’s green bar = citations earned by that year’s papers, counted to date — so recent years look lower simply because their papers haven’t had time to be cited yet.

SJR Quartile by Discipline

Scimago ranks this journal separately in each subject category — its quartile can differ by discipline.

Business, Management and Accounting (miscellaneous)Q4

Public AdministrationQ4

Subject Classification

Web of Science Categories

Business

Scopus Categories

Public AdministrationBusiness, Management and Accounting (miscellaneous)

Research Topics (OpenAlex)

Corporate Finance and GovernanceJob Satisfaction and Organizational BehaviorInnovation and Knowledge ManagementAuditing, Earnings Management, GovernanceFinancial Markets and Investment StrategiesCustomer Service Quality and LoyaltyEntrepreneurship Studies and InfluencesFinancial Reporting and Valuation ResearchConsumer Behavior in Brand Consumption and IdentificationInternational Business and FDI

Frequently asked questions about Frontiers of Business Research in China

Is Frontiers of Business Research in China a predatory journal?

Frontiers of Business Research in China was withdrawn from the Directory of Open Access Journals (DOAJ) — DOAJ's stated reason: "Journal is not open access" (2022-11-08). Withdrawal is not a predatory verdict, but it is a material editorial signal; it remains indexed in Web of Science, Scopus. Verify the journal's current status on DOAJ and its official site before submitting.

What is the impact factor of Frontiers of Business Research in China?

Frontiers of Business Research in China is indexed in the Web of Science Core Collection, so Clarivate publishes an official Journal Impact Factor for it (since the 2023 Journal Citation Reports, every Core Collection journal — including Arts & Humanities and Emerging Sources titles — receives one). PubScope links to Clarivate's official source rather than reprinting the number, which can be out of date.

Is Frontiers of Business Research in China indexed in Scopus and Web of Science?

Frontiers of Business Research in China is indexed in Web of Science, Scopus.

What is the aims and scope of Frontiers of Business Research in China?