Journal profile · BUSINESS
Business and Society Review
ISSN 0045-3609 · eISSN 1467-8594 · Wiley-Blackwell
Business and Society Review: CAS Zone 4 · Management (2025 upgraded edition); impact factor 2.3 (journal website); hybrid open access; APC about USD 2,900; median 329 days to acceptance (69 articles, last 24 months); acceptance rate 7% (journal website); 43 articles in 2025; indexed in ESCI and Scopus.
Scope
Aims, scope and focus
Business and Society Review is published by Wiley-Blackwell and is in Zone 4 of Management in the CAS Journal Ranking (2025 upgraded edition). By OpenAlex counts of its recent articles, its largest topics are Ethics in Business and Education, Corporate Social Responsibility Reporting and Management and Organizational Studies, together about 46.8% of its articles. (generated from OpenAlex topic counts and CAS ranking data)
Business and Society Review publishes articles that address a wide range of ethical and social issues concerning the relationships between business, society, the environment, and the public good. Articles in the Review present original theoretical and empirical research that contribute directly to the business and society field. The trans-disciplinary approach of the journal is intended to encourage contributors to fully explore the origins, implications, and possible resolution of the immense variety of issues surrounding the value dimensions of business in the contemporary world, incorporating insights from the social sciences, humanities, and the natural sciences. The Review seeks integrative and normative understandings of the roles of businesses and other institutions in society to initiate and generate public good. Its central focus is on scholarship that is concerned with building healthy societies supportive of all people and the environment. The journal accepts conceptual and empirical submissions, including quantitative and qualitative research methods, as well as non-traditional, inductive types of research.
From the journal's Aims & Scope
Research area (LetPub): BUSINESS
Editor-in-chief David WasieleskiPublisher website
Editorial board by country: none in mainland China; most named United States 42, France 6, United Kingdom 3, Canada 3, Netherlands 3 (67 members with a country) Editorial board ↗Publisher website ·
Main research topics OpenAlex counts of recent articles; shares are approximate
- Ethics in Business and EducationDecision Sciences18.8%
- Corporate Social Responsibility ReportingBusiness, Management and Accounting17.5%
- Management and Organizational StudiesBusiness, Management and Accounting10.6%
- Environmental Sustainability in BusinessBusiness, Management and Accounting9.3%
- Diverse Scientific and Economic StudiesEconomics, Econometrics and Finance3.6%
- Human auditory perception and evaluationEngineering3.5%
- Educational Robotics and EngineeringComputer Science3.5%
- Innovation and Socioeconomic DevelopmentBusiness, Management and Accounting3.3%
Rankings & indexing
CAS ranking and database indexing
CAS Journal Ranking
CAS Journal Ranking, upgraded edition (March 2025)Management Zone 4
| Level | Category | Zone |
|---|---|---|
| Major | Management | Zone 4 |
| Minor | Business | Zone 4 |
Top journal: noReview journal: no
CAS Xinrui Journal Ranking (March 2026)Management Zone 3
| Level | Category | Zone |
|---|---|---|
| Major | Management | Zone 3 |
| Minor | Business | Zone 3 |
Top journal: noReview journal: not marked
CAS Journal Ranking, previous upgraded edition (December 2023)Not covered
Not covered by this edition.
Database indexing
ESCIScopusLetPub
International journal early-warning lists: not listed in any editionLetPub
Indexing the journal's website claims
Web of SciencePublisher website
Other: EBSCO, ProQuest, ABI/INFORM Collection (ProQuest), Business Abstracts (EBSCO Publishing), Business ASAP (GALE Cengage), Business Premium Collection (ProQuest), EBSCO Online (EBSCO Publishing), EBSCO Publishing, InfoTrac (GALE Cengage), LegalTrac (GALE Cengage), OmniFile Full Text Mega Edition (HW Wilson), OmniFile Full Text Select (HW Wilson), Periodical Index Online (ProQuest), Philosopher's Index (Philosopher's Information Center), Philosophy Research Index (PDC), Proquest Business Collection (ProQuest), ProQuest Central (ProQuest), ProQuest Central K-94 Research Library (ProQuest), Research Library Prep (ProQuest)
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
- Impact factor (publisher)
- 2.3Publisher website ·
- Impact factor (publisher) 2025
- 2.3Publisher website ·
- CiteScore 2026-06
- 4.7LetPub ·
- CiteScore (publisher)
- 4.7Publisher website ·
- CiteScore (publisher) 2025
- 4.7Publisher website ·
- SJR 2026-06
- 0.61LetPub ·
- SNIP 2026-06
- 0.78LetPub ·
- h-index
- 65OpenAlex ·
- i10-index
- 348OpenAlex ·
- 2-year mean citedness
- 2.17OpenAlex ·
- Self-citation rate
- 8.7%LetPub ·
- Share of gold OA articles
- 31.68%LetPub ·
Volume
- Articles per year
- 31LetPub ·
- Articles per year (publisher) 2025
- 31Publisher website ·
- Downloads per year (publisher) 2025
- 89,735Publisher website ·
Articles by year OpenAlex count · 983 in total · the current year is incomplete
| Year | Articles | Open access | Citations |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2026 | 42 | 21 | 11 |
| 2025 | 43 | 19 | 82 |
| 2024 | 48 | 30 | 196 |
| 2023 | 40 | 25 | 282 |
| 2022 | 52 | 22 | 541 |
| 2021 | 34 | 9 | 643 |
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
Review time from article dates manuscript dates registered with Crossref · to
329 daysMedian, submission to acceptance · P25–P75 200 days – 467 days
- Acceptance to online
- median 17 days (69 articles)
- Submission to online
- median 344 days
- Sample
- 69 articles with submission and acceptance dates (81 in the window); the latest was accepted on
Only articles that were accepted and published are counted, not the time spent on rejected manuscripts, so this usually runs longer than a publisher's "time to first decision".
Other sources
- Acceptance rate (publisher)
- 7%Publisher website ·
- Acceptance rate (publisher) 2025
- 7%Publisher website ·
- Submission to first decision
- 36 daysPublisher website ·
- Submission to first decision 2025
- 36 daysPublisher website ·
- Submission to acceptance 2025
- 348 daysPublisher website ·
- Acceptance to publication 2025
- 19 daysPublisher website ·
- Peer review
- Double-anonymous peer reviewPublisher website · model-extracted
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
Hybrid open accessLetPub
A subscription journal in which authors can pay to publish their article open access.
| Source | APC | Fee waiver | License | Observed |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| OpenAlex | USD 2,900 / EUR 2,450 / GBP 1,930 | — | — |
A hybrid journal charges the APC only when the author chooses open access; publishing under the subscription model is usually free.
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
- Manuscript length
- ≤ 10,000 words
- Reference style
- APA
Policy excerpts from the journal's websiteLicense & copyright, Open access
- License & copyright Copyright/License Agreement
If your paper is accepted, the author identified as the formal corresponding author for the paper will receive an email prompting them to login into Author Services, where via the Wiley Author Licensing Service (WALS) they will be able to complete the license agreement on behalf of all authors on the paper.
Source ↗Publisher website ·- Open access For authors choosing open access
If the open access option is selected the corresponding author will have a choice of the following Creative Commons License Open Access Agreements (OAA):
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
- Wiley-Blackwell
- ISSN
- 0045-3609
- Electronic ISSN
- 1467-8594
- Society / sponsor
- Albert P
- Latest issue on the website
- Volume 131, Issue 3 (2026)
- Official links
- Journal homepage ↗OpenAlex
- Submission system ↗Publisher website
- Special issues ↗Publisher website
FAQ
Frequently asked questions about Business and Society Review
What CAS zone is Business and Society Review in?
In the 2025 upgraded edition of the CAS Journal Ranking, Business and Society Review is in Zone 4 of Management, and in Zone 4 of the minor category Business. In the 2026 Xinrui edition it is in Zone 3 of Management. Zones from different editions, and from major and minor categories, are not interchangeable.
What is the impact factor of Business and Society Review?
The journal's website gives an impact factor of 2.3 (2025); this is the journal's own figure, as LetPub lists none for it; CiteScore 4.7, h-index 65.
How long does peer review take at Business and Society Review?
Based on the dates recorded on 69 articles published between October 2024 and October 2026 (the last 24 months), the median time from submission to acceptance is 329 days (interquartile range 200–467 days); the journal's website gives an acceptance rate of 7% (2025). 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 Business and Society Review?
According to the journal's author guidelines: Manuscript length: ≤ 10,000 words; 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 Business and Society Review based?
Of the 67 board members whose country the journal's board page names, none are in mainland China; the countries named most often are United States (42), France (6) and United Kingdom (3). Counted from the institutions listed on the board page; for reference only.
Which databases index Business and Society Review?
According to LetPub and DOAJ records, Business and Society Review is indexed in ESCI and Scopus. The journal's website also lists Web of Science; that list has not been checked against each database.
Is Business and Society Review open access, and what is the APC?
Business and Society Review is a hybrid journal. For open-access publication: APC about USD 2,900.
Sources and updates
The facts on this page come from LetPub, Publisher website, OpenAlex; 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: .