Journal profile · ECONOMICS
Entrepreneurial Business and Economics Review
ISSN 2353-883X · eISSN 2353-8821 · Cracow University of Economics · Poland
Entrepreneurial Business and Economics Review: CAS Zone 3 · Economics (2025 upgraded edition); impact factor 3.3 (journal website); diamond open access (no APC); no APC; review about 6 weeks (community reports); 45 articles in 2025; indexed in ESCI and Scopus.
Scope
Aims, scope and focus
Entrepreneurial Business and Economics Review is published by Cracow University of Economics and is in Zone 3 of Economics in the CAS Journal Ranking (2025 upgraded edition). By OpenAlex counts of its recent articles, its largest topics are Entrepreneurship Studies and Influences, International Business and FDI and Family Business Performance and Succession, together about 39.8% of its articles. Its main subfields are Strategy and Management. (generated from OpenAlex topic counts and CAS ranking data)
A scientific open access quarterly focusing on Central and Eastern Europe as well as the Global Marketplace in general. eISSN 2353-8821(ISSN 2353-883X in the years 2013-2018) Entrepreneurial Business and Economics Review (EBER), as a multi-disciplinary and multi-contextual journal, is dedicated to serve as a broad and unified platform for revealing and spreading economics and management research focused on entrepreneurship, individual entrepreneurs as well as particular entrepreneurial aspects of business. It attempts to link theory and practice in different sections of economics and management by publishing various types of articles, mainly research papers, but sometimes also conceptual papers and literature reviews. Our geographical scope of interests includes Central and Eastern Europe; however, we also welcome articles beyond this scope (the global marketplace or the global economy in general). The Journal accept articles from the following fields: Entrepreneurship (in particular entrepreneurship and innovation, strategic entrepreneurship, corporate entrepreneurship, entrepreneurship methodology, the role of entrepreneurship and the entrepreneur in economics, entrepreneurial management, entrepreneurial business, entrepreneurship methodology, modern trends in business studies and organization theory, policies promoting entrepreneurship, innovation, digitalization, high-tech, R&D and SMEs, education for entrepreneurship), International Business (especially international entrepreneurship, international management, international marketing, European business, and new trends in international business, IB methodology), International Economics (especially FDI, international trade, international economics methodology, the economics of the European Union and emerging markets, as well as Europeanization).
From the journal's Aims & Scope
Research area (LetPub): ECONOMICS
Editor-in-chief Krzysztof WachPublisher website
Editorial board by country: none in mainland China; most named Poland 4, United States 1 (5 members with a country) Editorial board ↗Publisher website ·
Main research topics OpenAlex counts of recent articles; shares are approximate
- Entrepreneurship Studies and InfluencesBusiness, Management and Accounting19.7%
- International Business and FDIBusiness, Management and Accounting13%
- Family Business Performance and SuccessionBusiness, Management and Accounting7.1%
- Global trade and economicsEconomics, Econometrics and Finance6.3%
- Global Trade and CompetitivenessBusiness, Management and Accounting6%
- Business and Economic DevelopmentEnvironmental Science4.9%
- Innovation and Socioeconomic DevelopmentBusiness, Management and Accounting4.2%
- Migration, Ethnicity, and EconomySocial Sciences3.5%
Rankings & indexing
CAS ranking and database indexing
CAS Journal Ranking
CAS Journal Ranking, upgraded edition (March 2025)Economics Zone 3
| Level | Category | Zone |
|---|---|---|
| Major | Economics | Zone 3 |
| Minor | Economics | Zone 3 |
Top journal: noReview journal: no
CAS Xinrui Journal Ranking (March 2026)Economics Zone 3
| Level | Category | Zone |
|---|---|---|
| Major | Economics | Zone 3 |
| Minor | Economics | 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
ESCIScopusDOAJLetPub
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
- Impact factor (publisher) 2025
- 3.3Publisher website ·
- 5-year impact factor (publisher)
- 3.3Publisher website ·
- CiteScore 2026-06
- 7.8LetPub ·
- CiteScore (publisher)
- 7.8Publisher website ·
- SJR 2026-06
- 0.81LetPub ·
- SJR (publisher)
- 7.8Publisher website ·
- SNIP 2026-06
- 1.3LetPub ·
- SNIP (publisher)
- 0.81Publisher website ·
- h-index
- 42OpenAlex ·
- i10-index
- 280OpenAlex ·
- 2-year mean citedness
- 3.17OpenAlex ·
- Self-citation rate
- 4.2%LetPub ·
- Share of gold OA articles
- 91.73%LetPub ·
Volume
- Articles per year
- 45LetPub ·
- Articles per year (publisher) 2025
- 2,025Publisher website ·
- Articles per year (publisher) 2024
- 2,024Publisher website ·
- Articles per year (publisher) 2023
- 2,023Publisher website ·
- Articles per year (publisher) 2022
- 2,022Publisher website ·
- Articles per year (publisher) 2021
- 2,021Publisher website ·
- Articles per year (publisher) 2020
- 2,020Publisher website ·
- Articles per year (publisher) 2019
- 2,019Publisher website ·
- Articles per year (publisher) 2018
- 2,018Publisher website ·
- Articles per year (publisher) 2017
- 2,017Publisher website ·
- Articles per year (publisher) 2016
- 2,016Publisher website ·
- Articles per year (publisher) 2015
- 2,015Publisher website ·
- Articles per year (publisher) 2014
- 2,014Publisher website ·
- Articles per year (publisher) 2013
- 2,013Publisher website ·
Articles by year OpenAlex count · 587 in total · the current year is incomplete
| Year | Articles | Open access | Citations |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2026 | 22 | 22 | 7 |
| 2025 | 45 | 45 | 96 |
| 2024 | 44 | 44 | 249 |
| 2023 | 44 | 44 | 1,158 |
| 2022 | 44 | 44 | 615 |
| 2021 | 48 | 48 | 1,358 |
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 6 weeksLetPub ·
- Submission to publication (journal-reported)
- about 6 weeksDOAJ ·
- Peer review
- Single 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, CC BY-ND | |
| LetPub | No APC | No | — | |
| Publisher website | No APC | — | — |
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
- Reference style
- APA
- Templates
- Word
Policy excerpts from the journal's websiteAI use, Publication ethics, License & copyright, Peer review, Plagiarism, Preprints
- AI use
AI tools do not qualify for authorship; limited use permitted with disclosure Model summary
AI and AI-assisted tools do not qualify for authorship under our authorship policy.
Source ↗Publisher website ·- Publication ethics ..:: Publication Ethics and Malpractice Statement ::..
The author's statement including the copyright notice as well as the statement on ethics and good practice in science (including financial disclosure, ghost-writing firewall, guest authorship firewall) must be submitted alongside the manuscript according to the form provided – see the attachment (see the attachment – author’s statement) as well as to be mentioned on the article title page (see the…
Source ↗Publisher website ·- License & copyright Copyright Notice
CC BY-4.0 licence; authors retain copyright Model summary
Authors who publish with this journal agree to the following terms: Authors retain copyright and grant the journal right of first publication with the work simultaneously licensed under a CC BY-4.0 licence that allows others to share the work with an acknowledgement of the work's authorship and initial publication in this journal. Authors are asked to enter into separate, additional contractual ar…
Source ↗Publisher website ·- Peer review ..:: Peer Review Process ::..
Double-blind peer review Model summary
1. The editor-in-chief provides a final opinion based on a very detailed process. 2. The editor-in-chief or another member of the editorial council will make a preliminary decision to either accept the paper for further review or reject the paper. The author will be notified of the decision as soon as possible. In certain situations, this decision will be made following consultation with a member …
Source ↗Publisher website ·- Plagiarism
Anti-plagiarism via Crossref Similarity Check (iThenticate) Model summary
EBER uses the Crossref Similarity Check anti-plagiarism system with the iThenticate tool for researchers and professional writers to check their original works for potential plagiarism.
Source ↗Publisher website ·- Preprints
Not previously published Model summary
The submission has not been previously published (or an explanation has been provided in Comments to the Editor if publishing only in working papers, but generally we do not accept such situations).
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
- Cracow University of Economics
- Country or region
- Poland
- Language
- English
- ISSN
- 2353-883X
- Electronic ISSN
- 2353-8821
- Latest issue on the website
- Volume 14, Issue 2 (June 2026)
- Official links
- Journal homepage ↗DOAJ
- Author guidelines ↗LetPub
- Aims & Scope ↗LetPub
- APC information ↗DOAJ
- Open access statement ↗DOAJ
- License & copyright ↗DOAJ
- Peer review process ↗LetPub
- Editorial board ↗LetPub
FAQ
Frequently asked questions about Entrepreneurial Business and Economics Review
What CAS zone is Entrepreneurial Business and Economics Review in?
In the 2025 upgraded edition of the CAS Journal Ranking, Entrepreneurial Business and Economics Review is in Zone 3 of Economics, and in Zone 3 of the minor category Economics. In the 2026 Xinrui edition it is in Zone 3 of Economics. Zones from different editions, and from major and minor categories, are not interchangeable.
What is the impact factor of Entrepreneurial Business and Economics Review?
The journal's website gives an impact factor of 3.3 (2025); this is the journal's own figure, as LetPub lists none for it; CiteScore 7.8, h-index 42.
How long does peer review take at Entrepreneurial Business and Economics Review?
Authors report an average review time of about 6 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.
What are the manuscript requirements of Entrepreneurial Business and Economics Review?
According to the journal's author guidelines: Reference style: APA; Templates: Word. 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 Entrepreneurial Business and Economics Review based?
Of the 5 board members whose country the journal's board page names, none are in mainland China; the countries named most often are Poland (4) and United States (1). Counted from the institutions listed on the board page; for reference only.
Which databases index Entrepreneurial Business and Economics Review?
According to LetPub and DOAJ records, Entrepreneurial Business and Economics Review is indexed in ESCI, Scopus and DOAJ.
Is Entrepreneurial Business and Economics Review open access, and what is the APC?
Entrepreneurial Business and Economics 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: .