Journal profile
Business Research
ISSN 2198-2627 · SpringerOpen · Switzerland
Business Research: diamond open access (no APC); no APC; review about 13 weeks (community reports); 0 articles in 2025; the journal's website says submissions are paused or closed.
The journal's website says submissions are paused or closed: Business Research is now archived and no longer receiving submissions with this publisher. All articles published in the journal during its time with Springer will remain fully searchable through our websites. Source ↗Publisher website ·
Scope
Aims, scope and focus
Business Research is published by SpringerOpen. By OpenAlex counts of its recent articles, its largest topics are Business Strategies and Innovation, Management and Organizational Practices and Human Resource and Talent Management, together about 31.6% of its articles. Its main subfields are Strategy and Management. (generated from OpenAlex topic counts and CAS ranking data)
Business Research (BuR) has been merged with Schmalenbachs Zeitschrift für betriebswirtschaftliche Forschung (ZfbF) and Schmalenbach Business Review (SBR) as ...
From the journal's Aims & Scope
Main research topics OpenAlex counts of recent articles; shares are approximate
- Business Strategies and InnovationBusiness, Management and Accounting12.5%
- Management and Organizational PracticesBusiness, Management and Accounting11%
- Human Resource and Talent ManagementBusiness, Management and Accounting8%
- Innovation and Knowledge ManagementBusiness, Management and Accounting7.4%
- Leadership and Management in OrganizationsBusiness, Management and Accounting6.5%
- International Business and FDIBusiness, Management and Accounting5.1%
- Organizational Management and LeadershipBusiness, Management and Accounting4.6%
- Accounting and Organizational ManagementBusiness, Management and Accounting4%
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)Not covered
Not covered by this edition.
CAS Journal Ranking, previous upgraded edition (December 2023)Not covered
Not covered by this edition.
Database indexing
DOAJLetPub
International journal early-warning lists: not listed in any editionLetPub
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
- h-index
- 47OpenAlex ·
- i10-index
- 137OpenAlex ·
- 2-year mean citedness
- 0OpenAlex ·
- Share of gold OA articles
- 0%LetPub ·
Articles by year OpenAlex count · 1,995 in total · the current year is incomplete
| Year | Articles | Open access | Citations |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2026 | 0 | 0 | 1,566 |
| 2025 | 0 | 0 | 1,553 |
| 2024 | 0 | 0 | 1,607 |
| 2023 | 0 | 0 | 1,500 |
| 2022 | 0 | 0 | 1,334 |
| 2021 | 0 | 0 | 1,073 |
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 13 weeksLetPub ·
- Submission to publication (journal-reported)
- about 13 weeksDOAJ ·
- Peer review
- Double anonymous 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 | |
| OpenAlex | USD 1,535 / EUR 1,250 / GBP 980 | — | — | |
| LetPub | No APC | No | — |
The journal's website is authoritative for fees; sources were observed at different times and each keeps its own value, without averaging.
Profile
Publication details and official links
- Publisher
- SpringerOpen
- Country or region
- Switzerland
- Language
- English
- ISSN
- 2198-2627
- Official links
FAQ
Frequently asked questions about Business Research
How long does peer review take at Business Research?
Authors report an average review time of about 13 weeks. 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.
Which databases index Business Research?
According to LetPub and DOAJ records, Business Research is indexed in DOAJ.
Is Business Research open access, and what is the APC?
Business Research 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, OpenAlex, DOAJ, Publisher website; 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 2026-08-26). Last updated: .