International Journal of the Economics of Business(IJEB) presents original, peer reviewed research in microeconomics that is clearly applicable to business or related public policy issues. The term ‘business’ is used in its widest sense to encompass profit-seeking, non-profit, cooperative and public enterprises and their market interactions. Public policy issues include, for example, intellectual property law, industrial policy and oversight by regulatory and competition authorities.
The IJEB’s community is largely made up of economists specialising in business economics and related areas of applied microeconomics, such as industrial organisation and managerial economics, including both public policy and managerial perspectives. Contributions are also drawn from those in allied areas such as finance, strategy, international business, law and economics and economic history.
The IJEB welcomes empirical work from a range of research styles and sources of information including, for example, the quantitative analysis of published or proprietary data or data obtained from surveys and individual case studies, the results of natural or planned market experiments and the analysis of legal records and other material. Empirical work should be motivated by, and interpreted in light of, economic reasoning. The Journal is open to a variety of theoretical perspectives as the basis for empirical work, including agency theory, behavioural theory, evolutionary theory, resource based theory, transactions cost analysis as well as neoclassical and game theory. The IJEB also carries theoretical pieces which are clearly related to business or public policy applications.
As well as publishing research articles (including industry studies), IJEB publishes guest-edited special issues and extended review articles.
Peer Review Policy: Submitted manuscripts are subject to initial editorial appraisal and, if found suitable for further consideration, to peer review by independent, anonymous expert referees.
Journal metrics
Usage
42K annual downloads/views
Citation metrics
1.9 (2023) Impact Factor
Q2 Impact Factor Best Quartile
1.5 (2023) 5 year IF
2.6 (2023) CiteScore (Scopus)
Q2 CiteScore Best Quartile
0.830 (2023) SNIP
0.399 (2023) SJR
Speed/acceptance
7 days avg. from submission to first
decision
118 days avg. from submission to first
post-review decision
7% acceptance rate
Understanding and using journal metrics
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who are deciding where to submit their next manuscript for publication.
However, any one metric only tells a part of the story of a journal’s
quality and impact. Each metric has its limitations which means that it
should never be considered in isolation, and metrics should be used to
support and not replace qualitative review.
We strongly recommend that you always use a number of metrics, alongside
other qualitative factors such as a journal’s aims & scope, its
readership, and a review of past content published in the journal. In
addition, a single article should always be assessed on its own merits and
never based on the metrics of the journal it was published in.
Usage and acceptance rate data above are for the last full calendar year
and are updated annually in February. Speed data is updated every six
months, based on the prior six months. Citation metrics are updated
annually mid-year. Please note that some journals do not display all of
the following metrics
(find out why).
Usage:
the total number of times articles in the journal were viewed by users
of Taylor & Francis Online in the previous calendar year, rounded to the
nearest thousand.
Citation Metrics
Impact Factor*:
the average number of citations received by articles published in the
journal within a two-year window. Only journals in the Clarivate Science
Citation Index Expanded (SCIE), Social Sciences Citation Index (SSCI),
Arts and Humanities Citation Index (AHCI) and the Emerging Sources
Citation Index (ESCI) have an Impact Factor.
Impact Factor Best Quartile*:
the journal’s highest subject category ranking in the Journal Citation
Reports. Q1 = 25% of journals with the highest Impact Factors.
5 Year Impact Factor*:
the average number of citations received by articles in the journal
within a five-year window.
CiteScore (Scopus)†:
the average number of citations received by articles in the journal over
a four-year period.
CiteScore Best Quartile†:
the journal’s highest CiteScore ranking in a Scopus subject category. Q1
= 25% of journals with the highest CiteScores.
SNIP
(Source Normalized Impact per Paper):
the number of citations per paper in the journal, divided by citation
potential in the field.
SJR
(Scimago Journal Rank):
Average number of (weighted) citations in one year, divided by the
number of articles published in the journal in the previous three years.
Speed/acceptance
From submission to first decision:
the average (median) number of days for a manuscript submitted to the
journal to receive a first decision. Based on manuscripts receiving a
first decision in the last six months.
From submission to first post-review decision:
the average (median) number of days for a manuscript submitted to the
journal to receive a first decision if it is sent out for peer review.
Based on manuscripts receiving a post-review first decision in the last
six months.
From acceptance to online publication:
the average (median) number of days from acceptance of a manuscript to
online publication of the Version of Record. Based on articles published
in the last six months.
Acceptance rate:
articles accepted for publication by the journal in the previous
calendar year as percentage of all papers receiving a final decision.
EDITORS: Kevin Amess - Nottingham University Business School, UK David Paton - Nottingham University Business School, UK
EDITOR FOR THE AMERICAS: H.E. Frech III - Economics Department, University of California, Santa Barbara, USA
EDITOR EMERITUS Eleanor J. Morgan - University of Bath, UK
ASSOCIATE EDITORS: Giuliana Battisti - Warwick Business School, UK Swee Hoon Chuah - RMIT, Australia Paulo Epifani - University of Nottingham Ningbo Campus, China Kun Jiang - Sun Yat-sen University, China Joel Stiebale - Düsseldorf Institute for Competition Economics (DICE), Germany
INTERNATIONAL EDITORIAL BOARD: Harry Bloch -Curtin University of Technology, Australia Timothy J Brennan - University of Maryland, Baltimore County, USA Peter Buckley - University of Leeds, UK Mark Casson - University of Reading, UK Roger Clarke - University of Cardiff, UK Jörg Finsinger - University of Vienna, Austria Luke Froeb - Vanderbilt University, USA Stephen P. King -Productivity Commission, Australia Benjamin Klein - UCLA, Los Angeles, USA James Lagenfeld- BRG, Washington, D.C. and Johns Hopkins University, USA Kenneth M. Lehn - University of Pittsburgh, USA G. Franklin Mathewson - University of Toronto, Canada Dennis C. Mueller - University of Vienna, Austria Roger G. Noll - Stanford University, USA Mark V. Pauly - University of Pennsylvania, Philadelphia, USA Sam Peltzman - University of Chicago, USA John L. Peterman - Law and Economics Consulting Group, USA Thomas W. Ross -University of British Columbia, Canada Hans Schenk - Utrecht University, The Netherlands Joachim Schwalbach - Humboldt University of Berlin, Germany Mick Silver -International Monetary Fund, Washington, D.C., USA Leo Sleuwaegen - Katholieke Universiteit Leuven, Belgium Paul Stoneman - University of Warwick, UK Robert H. Topel - University of Chicago, USA Frederick R. Warren-Boulton - BRG, Washington, D.C., USA J. Michael Woolley - Allakos Inc., California, USA Richard J. Zeckhauser - Harvard University, USA Mark Zupan - University of Rochester, USA Chengqi Wang -University of Nottingham, UK Peter Zweifel - University of Zürich, Switzerland
Abstracting and indexing
Abstracted/Indexed in: IBZ, IBSS, Econlit, EBSCO (Business Source Corporate, Business Source Elite, Business Source Premier, Corporate Resource Net, TOC Premier, TOPICsearch), Economic Literature Database, OCLC ArticleFirst Database, OCLC FirstSearch Electronic Collections Online and Scopus.
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