Journal profile · BUSINESS
Global Business Review
ISSN 0972-1509 · eISSN 0973-0664 · SAGE
Global Business Review: CAS Zone 4 · Management (2025 upgraded edition); impact factor 2 (journal website); hybrid open access; APC about USD 3,650; 88 articles in 2025; indexed in ESCI and Scopus.
Scope
Aims, scope and focus
Global Business Review is published by SAGE 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 Corporate Finance and Governance, Market Dynamics and Volatility and Consumer Behavior in Brand Consumption and Identification, together about 20.7% of its articles. (generated from OpenAlex topic counts and CAS ranking data)
Global Business Review provides a forum for research and scholarship on management-related themes and topics. It publishes articles which are of a multi-disciplinary, interdisciplinary, and internationally significant nature. Thus its major objective is to attract thoughtful scholarship that matters to corporate and other institutions, for their overall development, … | View full journal description This journal is a member of the Committee on Publication Ethics (COPE).
From the journal's Aims & Scope
Research area (LetPub): BUSINESS
Editorial board by country: 1 in mainland China (about 2%); most named India 10, United States 6, Australia 5, United Kingdom 3, France 3 (46 members with a country) Editorial board ↗Publisher website ·
Main research topics OpenAlex counts of recent articles; shares are approximate
- Corporate Finance and GovernanceBusiness, Management and Accounting9.6%
- Market Dynamics and VolatilityEconomics, Econometrics and Finance6.1%
- Consumer Behavior in Brand Consumption and IdentificationBusiness, Management and Accounting5.1%
- Digital Marketing and Social MediaSocial Sciences5%
- Global trade and economicsEconomics, Econometrics and Finance4.9%
- International Business and FDIBusiness, Management and Accounting4.9%
- Job Satisfaction and Organizational BehaviorBusiness, Management and Accounting4.8%
- Monetary Policy and Economic ImpactEconomics, Econometrics and Finance4.5%
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 |
| Minor | Management | 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 4 |
| Minor | Management | Zone 4 |
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
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)
- 2Publisher website ·
- 5-year impact factor (publisher)
- 2.4Publisher website ·
- CiteScore 2026-06
- 12.5LetPub ·
- SJR 2026-06
- 0.67LetPub ·
- SNIP 2026-06
- 1.29LetPub ·
- h-index
- 76OpenAlex ·
- i10-index
- 922OpenAlex ·
- 2-year mean citedness
- 2.41OpenAlex ·
- Self-citation rate
- 10%LetPub ·
- Share of gold OA articles
- 5.41%LetPub ·
Volume
- Articles per year
- 87LetPub ·
- Articles per year (publisher)
- 3Publisher website ·
Articles by year OpenAlex count · 2,181 in total · the current year is incomplete
| Year | Articles | Open access | Citations |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2026 | 110 | 23 | 51 |
| 2025 | 88 | 18 | 137 |
| 2024 | 101 | 28 | 533 |
| 2023 | 148 | 46 | 1,171 |
| 2022 | 119 | 16 | 1,158 |
| 2021 | 141 | 17 | 2,128 |
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
- 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.
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 3,650 / GBP 2,676 | — | — | |
| Publisher website | Yes, amount not published | — | — |
A hybrid journal charges the APC only when the author chooses open access; publishing under the subscription model is usually free.
Other charges and waivers (author guidelines)
- Colour charges
- No colour charges
- Page charges
- Charged; see the journal's website for the amount
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 prepare4 items from the author guidelines
- Abstract
- 150–200 words
- Keywords
- ≥ 4
- Manuscript length
- ≤ 7,500 words
- Reference style
- APA
Article types accepted6, with length limits
- original research articleOriginal research articles and review articles should not exceed 7500 words. If any manuscript exceeds the limit, it will be withdrawn. All regular articles mus…main text ≤ 7,500 words
- regular articleOriginal research articles and review articles should not exceed 7500 words. If any manuscript exceeds the limit, it will be withdrawn. All regular articles mus…Length not stated
- research noteOriginal Research Article Review Article Research Note Short CommunicationsLength not stated
- review articleOriginal research articles and review articles should not exceed 7500 words. If any manuscript exceeds the limit, it will be withdrawn. All regular articles mus…Length not stated
- short communicationOriginal research articles and review articles should not exceed 7500 words. If any manuscript exceeds the limit, it will be withdrawn. All regular articles mus…Length not stated
- short communicationsOriginal Research Article Review Article Research Note Short CommunicationsLength not stated
Policy excerpts from the journal's websiteAuthorship, Data availability, Publication ethics, Open access, Peer review, Plagiarism, Preprints
- Authorship Author contributions
You will be asked to list the contribution of each author as part of the submission process. Please include the Author Contributions heading within your submission after the Acknowledgements section. The information you give on submission will then show under the Author Contributions heading later at the proofing stage.
Source ↗Publisher website ·- Data availability Data availability
The Journal is committed to facilitating openness, transparency and reproducibility of research, and has the following research data sharing policy. For more information, including FAQs please visit the Sage Research Data policy pages. Subject to appropriate ethical and legal considerations, authors are encouraged to: Share your research data in a relevant public data repository Include a data ava…
Source ↗Publisher website ·- Publication ethics Ethical considerations
Please include your ethics approval statements under this heading, even if you have already included ethics approval information in your methods section. If ethical approval was not required, you need to explicitly state this. All papers reporting studies involving human participants, human data or human tissue must state that the relevant Ethics Committee or Institutional Review Board approved th…
Source ↗Publisher website ·- Open access Publishing fees and open access
Optional open access publishing is available for a fee via the Sage Choice program, and Open Access agreements, where authors can publish open access either discounted or free of charge depending on the agreement with Sage. Find out if your institution is participating by visiting Open Access Agreements at Sage. Open Access agreement eligibility is determined by the corresponding author’s affiliat…
Source ↗Publisher website ·- Peer review Peer review policy
The following summary describes the peer review process for this journal: Identity transparency: Double anonymized Reviewer interacts with: Editor Review information published: None Your manuscript will undergo an initial evaluation. If it does not conform to the requirements laid out in these guidelines, it will be returned to you for amendments prior to peer review. Manuscripts may be desk rejec…
Source ↗Publisher website ·- Plagiarism Plagiarism
The journal and Sage take issues of copyright infringement, plagiarism or other breaches of best practice in publication very seriously. Please read Sage's complete policy on plagiarism and the actions we may take.
Source ↗Publisher website ·- Preprints Preprints
Preprints not accepted Model summary
The journal does not accept submissions of manuscripts that have been posted on preprint servers.
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
- SAGE
- ISSN
- 0972-1509
- Electronic ISSN
- 0973-0664
- Official links
- Journal homepage ↗OpenAlex
- Submission system ↗Publisher website
- Special issues ↗Publisher website
FAQ
Frequently asked questions about Global Business Review
What CAS zone is Global Business Review in?
In the 2025 upgraded edition of the CAS Journal Ranking, Global Business Review is in Zone 4 of Management, and in Zone 4 of the minor category Business / Management. 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 Global Business Review?
The journal's website gives an impact factor of 2; this is the journal's own figure, as LetPub lists none for it; CiteScore 12.5, h-index 76.
What are the manuscript requirements of Global Business Review?
According to the journal's author guidelines: Abstract: 150–200 words; Keywords: ≥ 4; Manuscript length: ≤ 7,500 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 Global Business Review based?
Of the 46 board members whose country the journal's board page names, 1 (about 2%) are in mainland China; the countries named most often are India (10), United States (6) and Australia (5). Counted from the institutions listed on the board page; for reference only.
Which databases index Global Business Review?
According to LetPub and DOAJ records, Global Business 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 Global Business Review open access, and what is the APC?
Global Business Review is a hybrid journal. For open-access publication: APC about USD 3,650.
Sources and updates
The facts on this page come from LetPub, OpenAlex, 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 2026-08-25). Last updated: .