Entrepreneurship and Regional Development

Entrepreneurship and Regional Development is published by Taylor & Francis and is in Zone 2 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, Family Business Performance and Succession and Migration, Ethnicity, and Economy, together about 47.7% of its articles. (generated from OpenAlex topic counts and CAS ranking data)

Entrepreneurship & Regional Development is classified 3* (out of 4) in the Chartered Association of Business Schools Academic Journal Quality Guide Aims Entrepreneurship and Regional Development is a leading entrepreneurship journal that publishes interesting, courageous papers, which make a contribution to theory for understanding the extraordinary phenomenon of entrepreneurship. We look for papers that are thought-provoking and robust because of what and how they add to our knowledge, appreciation and understanding of entrepreneurship. Novelty requires both courage and rigor. We strongly encourage authors to test and challenge theoretical assumptions, and engage with appropriate methodologies to capture the realities of the lived entrepreneurial experience and the unique challenges that entrepreneurs, entrepreneurial firms, regions and countries are facing today. Scope Our scope is wide and reflects the many forms of entrepreneurship and the many regions where entrepreneurship takes place. Moreover, entrepreneurship is a very broad phenomenon, not only in types but in the varieties of forms and functions. There are many diverse approaches and topics within our field so we avoid prescription. Entrepreneurship and Regional Development publishes purely conceptual papers, but our threshold for argumentation and novel theoretical contribution is high. Similarly, empirical papers should go beyond merely adding another variable and testing it, and contribute to extending and building theory in our domain. Given the multifaceted nature of entrepreneurship, we welcome articles from all disciplines, such as management, organization studies, social sciences and humanities. The geographies of entrepreneurship are also important for Entrepreneurship and Regional Development . This is because entrepreneurship happens in places; a dynamic interplay exists among layers of context(s), entrepreneurs and entrepreneurship. In fact, places change entrepreneurship and entrepreneurship changes places. Places are the forum of but also a platform for many different spatial, temporal, relational and socio-cognitive contexts. Moreover, places are where social, economic and cultural structures and dynamics are enacted and thus they open up so much scope for interesting and useful enquiries. Entrepreneurship and Regional Development papers recognise the geography, temporality and relationality of entrepreneuring. In summary, Entrepreneurship and Regional Development provides a schol

From the journal's Aims & Scope

Research area (LetPub): Multiple

Editor-in-chief Miruna Radu-LefebvrePublisher website

CAS Journal Ranking

JCR / CiteScore quartiles on the journal's website

• JCR Q1 · best quartile · 2025
• CiteScore Q1 · 2025

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Database indexing

SSCIScopusLetPub

International journal early-warning lists: not listed in any editionLetPub

Indexing the journal's website claims

SCIEEconLitCurrent ContentsPublisher website

Other: EBSCO, OCLC

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Impact

Impact factor

4.77LetPub · 2026-09-13

Impact factor (publisher) 2025

4.8Publisher website · 2026-10-01

5-year impact factor (publisher) 2025

6.1Publisher website · 2026-10-01

CiteScore 2026-06

7.7LetPub · 2026-09-13

CiteScore (publisher) 2025

7.7Publisher website · 2026-10-01

SJR 2026-06

1.61LetPub · 2026-09-13

SJR (publisher) 2025

1.61Publisher website · 2026-10-01

SNIP 2026-06

1.75LetPub · 2026-09-13

SNIP (publisher) 2025

1.75Publisher website · 2026-10-01

h-index

150OpenAlex · 2026-10-01

i10-index

1,004OpenAlex · 2026-10-01

2-year mean citedness

4.71OpenAlex · 2026-10-01

Self-citation rate

12.5%LetPub · 2026-09-13

Share of gold OA articles

30.48%LetPub · 2026-09-13

Volume

Articles per year

85LetPub · 2026-09-13

Downloads per year (publisher)

339,000Publisher website · 2026-10-01

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.

Other sources

Acceptance rate (publisher)

7%Publisher website · 2026-10-01

Submission to first decision

12 daysPublisher website · 2026-10-01

First decision after review

87 daysPublisher website · 2026-10-01

Acceptance to publication

14 daysPublisher website · 2026-10-01

Peer review

Double anonymous peer reviewPublisher website

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.

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.

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.

Publisher

Taylor & Francis

ISSN

0898-5626

Electronic ISSN

1464-5114

Latest issue on the website

Volume 38, Issue 7-8 (2026)

Official links

• Journal homepage ↗OpenAlex
• Submission system ↗Publisher website
• Special issues ↗Publisher website