Journal profile · Business, Management and Accounting-Strategy and Management
BAR - Brazilian Administration Review
ISSN 1807-7692 · Brazilian Administration Review · Brazil
BAR - Brazilian Administration Review: CAS Zone 4 · Management (2026 Xinrui edition); diamond open access (no APC); no APC; review about 16 weeks (community reports); acceptance rate 10% (journal website); 40 articles in 2025; indexed in ESCI and Scopus.
Scope
Aims, scope and focus
BAR - Brazilian Administration Review is published by Brazilian Administration Review and is classed under Management in the CAS Journal Ranking. By OpenAlex counts of its recent articles, its largest topics are Innovation and Knowledge Management, Management and Organizational Studies and Corporate Finance and Governance, together about 26.4% of its articles. (generated from OpenAlex topic counts and CAS ranking data)
BAR publishes documents within the interests of business and public administration, management science, and organization studies. Diverse theoretical and methodological perspectives are welcome as long as they contribute to advancing the frontiers of a specific theoretical tradition and are also insightful to practice.
From the journal's Aims & Scope
Research area (LetPub): Business, Management and Accounting-Strategy and Management
Editor-in-chief Ricardo LimongiPublisher website
Editorial board by country: 1 in mainland China (about 1%); most named Brazil 48, United States 7, Canada 5, United Kingdom 4, Portugal 3 (78 members with a country) Editorial board ↗Publisher website ·
Main research topics OpenAlex counts of recent articles; shares are approximate
- Innovation and Knowledge ManagementBusiness, Management and Accounting11.1%
- Management and Organizational StudiesBusiness, Management and Accounting7.9%
- Corporate Finance and GovernanceBusiness, Management and Accounting7.5%
- Entrepreneurship Studies and InfluencesBusiness, Management and Accounting6.3%
- Customer Service Quality and LoyaltyBusiness, Management and Accounting5.8%
- International Business and FDIBusiness, Management and Accounting5%
- Consumer Behavior in Brand Consumption and IdentificationBusiness, Management and Accounting4.5%
- Digital Marketing and Social MediaSocial Sciences4.2%
Rankings & indexing
CAS ranking and database indexing
CAS Journal Ranking
CAS Journal Ranking, upgraded edition (March 2025)Not covered
Not covered by this edition.
CAS Xinrui Journal Ranking (March 2026)Management Zone 4
| Level | Category | Zone |
|---|---|---|
| Major | Management | Zone 4 |
| Minor | Business | Zone 4 |
| Minor | Management | Zone 4 |
Top journal: noReview journal: not marked
CAS Journal Ranking, previous upgraded edition (December 2023)Not covered
Not covered by this edition.
Database indexing
ESCIScopusDOAJLetPub
International journal early-warning lists: not listed in any editionLetPub
Indexing the journal's website claims
Web of ScienceSciELOPublisher website
As the journal's website lists them, not checked against each database; for Web of Science editions the records above apply.
Editions, and major and minor categories, are shown separately and never merged into one zone; check which edition your institution uses before you submit or report.
Metrics
Impact metrics and publication volume
Impact
- 5-year impact factor (publisher) 2024
- 23Publisher website ·
- CiteScore 2026-06
- 1.5LetPub ·
- CiteScore (publisher) 2024
- 2.1Publisher website ·
- SJR 2026-06
- 0.24LetPub ·
- SNIP 2026-06
- 0.35LetPub ·
- h-index
- 40OpenAlex ·
- i10-index
- 238OpenAlex ·
- 2-year mean citedness
- 1.2OpenAlex ·
- Self-citation rate
- 33.3%LetPub ·
- Share of gold OA articles
- 98.95%LetPub ·
Volume
- Articles per year
- 34LetPub ·
- Articles per year (publisher)
- 1Publisher website ·
Articles by year OpenAlex count · 591 in total · the current year is incomplete
| Year | Articles | Open access | Citations |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2026 | 22 | 22 | 1 |
| 2025 | 40 | 40 | 50 |
| 2024 | 47 | 47 | 80 |
| 2023 | 29 | 29 | 83 |
| 2022 | 25 | 25 | 160 |
| 2021 | 26 | 26 | 300 |
Sources count differently and were observed at different times, so each source's own value is kept; "publisher" marks figures from the journal's website.
Review & acceptance
Review time and acceptance
- Average review time (community reports)
- about 16 weeksLetPub ·
- Acceptance rate (publisher)
- 10%Publisher website ·
- Submission to publication
- 375 daysPublisher website ·
- Submission to publication (journal-reported)
- about 40 weeksDOAJ ·
- Peer review
- Double anonymous peer review, Post-publication peer reviewDOAJ
Community reports come from authors' own submissions (confidence 0.5) and are not a promise from the journal; for publisher figures, the journal's own definitions apply.
Fees & open access
APC and open-access policy
Diamond open access (no APC)DOAJ
Every article is open access and authors pay no article processing charge.
| Source | APC | Fee waiver | License | Observed |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| DOAJ | No APC | No | CC BY | |
| LetPub | No APC | No | — | |
| Publisher website | Yes, amount not published | — | — |
The journal's website is authoritative for fees; sources were observed at different times and each keeps its own value, without averaging.
Submission
Article types and submission policies (journal website)
What to prepare2 items from the author guidelines
- Keywords
- 3–5
- Reference style
- APA
Article types accepted4, with length limits
- interviewInterviewLength not stated
- research article(see item 6 above). 4. Article length: Research articles submitted to BAR are expected to contain approximately 10,000 words, Thinking Outside the Box submissio…main text ≤ 10,000 words
- research articlesResearch ArticlesLength not stated
- thinking outside the boxThinking Outside the BoxLength not stated
Policy excerpts from the journal's websiteAI use, Authorship, Conflicts of interest, Publication ethics, License & copyright, Open access, Peer review, Plagiarism, Self-archiving
- AI use 5. Use of Artificial Intelligence
The Brazilian Administration Review (BAR) recognizes that artificial intelligence (AI) tools can support academic writing and research. Their use is permitted under the following conditions:
Source ↗Publisher website ·- Authorship 10. Authorship and Contributorship
Prominent institutions around the globe, such as ANPAD and ICMJE (International Committee of Medical Journal Editors), recommend that authorship be based on the following four criteria:
Source ↗Publisher website ·- Conflicts of interest 9. Conflict of Interest
Submissions for BAR are assigned to editors in an effort to minimize potential conflicts of interest. The following relationships between editors and authors are considered conflicts and are avoided:
Source ↗Publisher website ·- Publication ethics 17. Publication Ethics and Malpractice Statements
The main editorial policies of BAR regarding obedience and promotion of ethics in scientific communication are described below to promote/discuss:
Source ↗Publisher website ·- License & copyright 7.1 Copyright and Licensing
Since December 2022, the authors retain the copyright relating to their article and grant the journal BAR, from ANPAD, the right of first publication, with the work simultaneously licensed under the Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International license (CC BY 4.0), as stated in the article’s PDF document. This license provides that the article published can be shared (allows you to copy and redis…
Source ↗Publisher website ·- Open access
Open access; member of COPE Model summary
BAR is a fully open-access online journal that is a member and abides by the principles of COPE – Committee on Publication Ethics for scholarly publication.
Source ↗Publisher website ·- Peer review 6.1 Peer Review Process
All submissions are subject to a preliminary screening by the editorial office regarding formatting. Submissions for the manuscript type "Interview" will go through an initial evaluation by the Editor-in-chief. Depending upon the theme, the Editor-in-chief will indicate an Associate Editor to perform the interview analysis and recommend whether or not to publish the interview. The journal reserves…
Source ↗Publisher website ·- Plagiarism 13.1 Examples of plagiarism:
Copying and pasting from the Internet and posting somewhere else without proper citation. Put your name on another person’s essay or project. Copying exact wording from another person’s text. Using another person’s photo, diagram, tables, sounds, or ideas without proper citation. Presenting research in your own words without providing references Purchasing another person’s text and using it as you…
Source ↗Publisher website ·- Self-archiving 7.2 Self-archiving Policy
As above-mentioned, authors are allowed and encouraged to distribute their published articles online (for example, in institutional or academic repositories or on personal pages). Therefore, authors are permitted to deposit all versions of their paper (Preprint, Author's Accepted Manuscript, Published article (Version of Record)) in an institutional, subject, or personal repository. An embargo is …
Source ↗Publisher website ·
Excerpts are quoted from the journal's website; "model summary" lines are written by Workers AI and checked against the text. The journal's website is authoritative.
Profile
Publication details and official links
- Publisher
- Brazilian Administration Review
- Country or region
- Brazil
- Language
- English
- ISSN
- 1807-7692
- Latest issue on the website
- Volume 23, Issue 3 (2026)
- Official links
- Journal homepage ↗DOAJ
- Submission system ↗Publisher website
- Author guidelines ↗LetPub
- Aims & Scope ↗LetPub
- Special issues ↗Publisher website
- APC information ↗DOAJ
- Open access statement ↗DOAJ
- License & copyright ↗DOAJ
- Peer review process ↗LetPub
- Editorial board ↗LetPub
- Plagiarism policy ↗DOAJ
FAQ
Frequently asked questions about BAR - Brazilian Administration Review
What CAS zone is BAR - Brazilian Administration Review in?
In the 2026 Xinrui edition it is in Zone 4 of Management. Zones from different editions, and from major and minor categories, are not interchangeable.
How long does peer review take at BAR - Brazilian Administration Review?
Authors report an average review time of about 16 weeks; the journal's website gives an acceptance rate of 10%. Article statistics cover accepted papers only, publisher figures follow the journal's own definitions, and community reports come from authors' own submissions; none is a promise from the journal.
What are the manuscript requirements of BAR - Brazilian Administration Review?
According to the journal's author guidelines: Keywords: 3–5; Reference style: APA. A model extracted these from the author guidelines and each was checked against the text; check the latest version on the journal's website before submitting.
Where are the editorial board members of BAR - Brazilian Administration Review based?
Of the 78 board members whose country the journal's board page names, 1 (about 1%) are in mainland China; the countries named most often are Brazil (48), United States (7) and Canada (5). Counted from the institutions listed on the board page; for reference only.
Which databases index BAR - Brazilian Administration Review?
According to LetPub and DOAJ records, BAR - Brazilian Administration Review is indexed in ESCI, Scopus and DOAJ. The journal's website also lists Web of Science and SciELO; that list has not been checked against each database.
Is BAR - Brazilian Administration Review open access, and what is the APC?
BAR - Brazilian Administration Review is a diamond open-access journal (no APC). It charges no article processing charge.
Sources and updates
The facts on this page come from LetPub, Publisher website, OpenAlex, DOAJ; every figure is tagged with its source and the date it was observed, and conflicting values are kept per source. LetPub source page: view ↗ (archived 2026-08-25). Last updated: .