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Business and Professional Communication Quarterly

SAGE Publications Inc. · United States · Est. 2013

ISSN2329-4922

SJR Q1✓ WOS ESCI✓ Scopus / SJR

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JCR quartile are licensed by Clarivate — we link you to the official source instead of reprinting a number that can go out of date.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 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

0.705

H-Indexi

SNIPi

1.158

Total Worksi

511

Total Citationsi

4,216

2yr Mean Citednessi

1.80

Open Impact Factor alternative

Aims & Scope

Subject areas: Communication; Arts and Humanities (miscellaneous); Economics, Econometrics and Finance (miscellaneous); Business and International Management; Business, Management and Accounting (miscellaneous).

General Information

Country / RegionUnited States

Primary LanguageEnglish

1st Year Published2013

Annual Volume~ 70 articles / year

StatusActive (last: 2026)

Total Publications511

Publisher OrgSAGE Publishing

Visit Journal Website

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?

SAGE Publications Inc.

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Does the journal have a website?

✓ Linked

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Is the ISSN verified?

2329-4922

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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

472

2019

170

2020

114

2021

293

2022

592

2023

324

2024

105

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.

Arts and Humanities (miscellaneous)Q1

Economics, Econometrics and Finance (miscellaneous)Q1

Business and International ManagementQ2

Business, Management and Accounting (miscellaneous)Q2

Subject Classification

Web of Science Categories

Communication

Scopus Categories

Economics, Econometrics and Finance (miscellaneous)Arts and Humanities (miscellaneous)Business and International ManagementBusiness, Management and Accounting (miscellaneous)

Research Topics (OpenAlex)

Communication in Education and HealthcareManagement and Marketing EducationDiscourse Analysis in Language StudiesPublic Relations and Crisis CommunicationOnline and Blended LearningKnowledge Management and SharingTeam Dynamics and PerformanceManagement and Organizational StudiesInternational Student and Expatriate ChallengesAccounting Education and Careers

Frequently asked questions about Business and Professional Communication Quarterly

Is Business and Professional Communication Quarterly a predatory journal?

PubScope has no integrity flags on record for Business and Professional Communication Quarterly: 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 Business and Professional Communication Quarterly?

Business and Professional Communication Quarterly 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 1.80.

Is Business and Professional Communication Quarterly indexed in Scopus and Web of Science?

Business and Professional Communication Quarterly is indexed in Web of Science, Scopus.