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Journal of Family Business Strategy

Elsevier Ltd · United Kingdom · Est. 2009

ISSN1877-8585eISSN1877-8593

SJR Q1✓ WOS SSCI✓ Scopus / SJR

Impact Factor & Quartile · Web of Science (JCR)

✓ Indexed in the Web of Science Core Collection (SSCI) — 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JCR quartile are licensed by Clarivate — we link you to the official source instead of reprinting a number that can go out of date.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 Q1. Source: Clarivate Journal Citation Reports.

📊 Standing in its field

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

SJR · Scopus

Top 25% in field

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

SJR Scorei

2.444

H-Indexi

SNIPi

2.823

Total Worksi

525

Total Citationsi

28,247

2yr Mean Citednessi

2.90

Open Impact Factor alternative

Aims & Scope

Subject areas: Business; Management; Economics and Econometrics; Strategy and Management.

General Information

Country / RegionUnited Kingdom

Primary LanguageEnglish

1st Year Published2009

Annual Volume~ 22 articles / year

StatusActive (last: 2026)

Total Publications525

Publisher OrgElsevier BV

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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?

Elsevier Ltd

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Does the journal have a website?

✓ Linked

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Is the ISSN verified?

1877-8585 / 1877-8593

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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

1.3k

2019

2020

2021

829

2022

341

2023

164

2024

2025

2026

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.

Economics and EconometricsQ1

Strategy and ManagementQ1

Subject Classification

Web of Science Categories

BusinessManagement

Scopus Categories

Strategy and ManagementEconomics and Econometrics

Research Topics (OpenAlex)

Family Business Performance and SuccessionEntrepreneurship Studies and InfluencesCorporate Finance and GovernanceHuman auditory perception and evaluationDiverse Scientific and Economic StudiesEducational Robotics and EngineeringMigration, Ethnicity, and EconomyWorking Capital and Financial PerformanceInnovation and Socioeconomic DevelopmentCorporate Taxation and Avoidance

Frequently asked questions about Journal of Family Business Strategy

Is Journal of Family Business Strategy a predatory journal?

PubScope has no integrity flags on record for Journal of Family Business Strategy: it is indexed in Web of Science, Scopus, and is not on DOAJ's withdrawn list. Indexing is a transparency signal, not a guarantee — always confirm fit and policies before submitting.

What is the impact factor of Journal of Family Business Strategy?

Journal of Family Business Strategy 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. Its open 2-year mean citedness is 2.90.

Is Journal of Family Business Strategy indexed in Scopus and Web of Science?

Journal of Family Business Strategy is indexed in Web of Science, Scopus.

What is the aims and scope of Journal of Family Business Strategy?