Business Systems Research Journal

Business Systems Research Journal is published by Sciendo 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 Digital Marketing and Social Media, Information Technology Governance and Strategy and Big Data and Business Intelligence, together about 21.5% of its articles. Its main subfields are Management Information Systems. (generated from OpenAlex topic counts and CAS ranking data)

Business Systems Research (BSR) is a scientific journal focusing on research findings in economics and business systems. Additionally, BSR considers research that combines business and economics with other fields of scientific enquiry, e.g. information systems, mathematics and social sciences. BSR examines a wide variety of business decisions, processes and activities within the actual business setting, as well as within the systems approach framework. Theoretical and empirical advances in perceiving businesses as systems are evaluated regularly.In this respect, the BSR journal fosters the exchange of ideas, experience and knowledge between regions with different technological and cultural traditions, in particular in transition countries. Papers submitted for publication should be original theoretical and practical papers. The journal also publishes case studies describing innovative applications and critical reviews of theory.The journal is indexed in Scopus and Clarivate Analytics - Emerging Sources Citation Index & Web of Science.Journal Business Systems Research (BSR) is financially supported by the Croatian Ministry of Science and Education.Why subscribe and readBusiness Systems Research (BSR) is a scientific journal focusing on research findings in economics and business systems. Additionally, BSR considers research that combines business and economics with other fields of scientific enquiry, e.g. information systems, mathematics and social sciences. BSR examines a wide variety of business decisions, processes and activities within the actual business setting, as well as within the systems approach framework.Why submitBusiness Systems Research is a good opportunity for the publication of research that describes and explores economics and business systems. Our policy is to give feedback to authors as fast as possible. After receiving the paper that is prepared for Author instructions, the editorial board will inform the author on the appropriateness of the paper to the journal within two weeks. The first review will be delivered as fast as possible, but not later than two months. Reviews that we provide are thorough and give author clear directions on how to improve the paper.Rejection Rate70%

From the journal's Aims & Scope

Research area (LetPub): BUSINESS

Editor-in-chief Mirjana Pejić BachPublisher website

CAS Journal Ranking

Database indexing

ESCIScopusDOAJLetPub

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Impact

Impact factor (publisher)

19Publisher website · 2026-09-29

CiteScore 2026-06

3LetPub · 2026-09-13

CiteScore (publisher)

30Publisher website · 2026-09-29

SJR 2026-06

0.34LetPub · 2026-09-13

SNIP 2026-06

0.74LetPub · 2026-09-13

h-index

28OpenAlex · 2026-10-01

i10-index

119OpenAlex · 2026-10-01

2-year mean citedness

1.55OpenAlex · 2026-10-01

Self-citation rate

26.3%LetPub · 2026-09-13

Share of gold OA articles

100%LetPub · 2026-09-13

Volume

Articles per year

34LetPub · 2026-09-13

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Average review time (community reports)

about 22 weeksLetPub · 2026-09-13

Peer review

Anonymous peer reviewLetPub

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Publisher

Sciendo

Country or region

Poland

Language

English

ISSN

1847-8344

Electronic ISSN

1847-9375

Official links

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• Editorial board ↗LetPub