Journal profile · BUSINESS
International Business Review
ISSN 0969-5931 · eISSN 1873-6149 · Elsevier
International Business Review: CAS Zone 2 · Management (2025 upgraded edition, Top journal); impact factor 7.36; hybrid open access; APC about USD 4,550; review about 350 days (submission to acceptance, publisher); 96 articles in 2025; indexed in SSCI and Scopus.
Scope
Aims, scope and focus
International Business Review is published by Elsevier and is in Zone 2 of Management in the CAS Journal Ranking (2025 upgraded edition, Top journal). By OpenAlex counts of its recent articles, its largest topics are International Business and FDI, Innovation and Knowledge Management and Corporate Finance and Governance, together about 50.9% of its articles. (generated from OpenAlex topic counts and CAS ranking data)
The International Business Review (IBR) is a premier international journal in the discipline of international business, and the official journal of the European International Business Academy (EIBA). The journal publishes original and insightful papers on the theory and practice of international business, broadly defined to embrace firms' internationalization strategies, the cross-border management of firms' operations, and comparative studies of the business environments in different countries. Put simply, the journal is interested in publishing papers that inform the international operations of firms (whether SMEs or large MNEs), or guide the actions of policy-makers in home or host countries. The journal welcomes conceptual papers, empirical papers and review articles, and is open to contributions from strategy, finance, management, marketing, economics, HRM and organizational scholars. IBR embraces methodological plurality, and papers using quantitative and/or qualitative approaches are equally welcome.
From the journal's Aims & Scope
Research area (LetPub): BUSINESS
Editor-in-chief Mario KafourosPublisher website
Editorial board by country: 11 in mainland China (about 6%); most named United Kingdom 43, United States 29, Australia 13, Canada 12, Mainland China 11 (183 members with a country) Editorial board ↗Publisher website ·
Main research topics OpenAlex counts of recent articles; shares are approximate
- International Business and FDIBusiness, Management and Accounting25.3%
- Innovation and Knowledge ManagementBusiness, Management and Accounting13.1%
- Corporate Finance and GovernanceBusiness, Management and Accounting12.5%
- Global trade and economicsEconomics, Econometrics and Finance7.1%
- Family Business Performance and SuccessionBusiness, Management and Accounting5.6%
- Firm Innovation and GrowthEconomics, Econometrics and Finance4%
- Entrepreneurship Studies and InfluencesBusiness, Management and Accounting3.3%
- Human auditory perception and evaluationEngineering3.1%
Rankings & indexing
CAS ranking and database indexing
CAS Journal Ranking
CAS Journal Ranking, upgraded edition (March 2025)Management Zone 2
| Level | Category | Zone |
|---|---|---|
| Major | Management | Zone 2 |
| Minor | Business | Zone 2 |
Top journal: yesReview journal: no
CAS Xinrui Journal Ranking (March 2026)Management Zone 1
| Level | Category | Zone |
|---|---|---|
| Major | Management | Zone 1 |
| Minor | Business | Zone 1 |
| Minor | Management | Zone 2 |
Top journal: yesReview journal: not marked
CAS Journal Ranking, previous upgraded edition (December 2023)Management Zone 1
| Level | Category | Zone |
|---|---|---|
| Major | Management | Zone 1 |
| Minor | Business | Zone 2 |
Top journal: yesReview journal: no
Database indexing
SSCIScopusLetPub
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
- 7.36LetPub ·
- Impact factor (publisher)
- 7.4Publisher website ·
- CiteScore 2026-06
- 11.4LetPub ·
- CiteScore (publisher)
- 11.4Publisher website ·
- SJR 2026-06
- 2.14LetPub ·
- SNIP 2026-06
- 2.05LetPub ·
- h-index
- 179OpenAlex ·
- i10-index
- 1,767OpenAlex ·
- 2-year mean citedness
- 7.47OpenAlex ·
- Self-citation rate
- 10.8%LetPub ·
- Share of gold OA articles
- 42.51%LetPub ·
Volume
- Articles per year
- 109LetPub ·
Articles by year OpenAlex count · 2,400 in total · the current year is incomplete
| Year | Articles | Open access | Citations |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2026 | 65 | 43 | 72 |
| 2025 | 96 | 61 | 627 |
| 2024 | 82 | 49 | 1,116 |
| 2023 | 89 | 46 | 1,758 |
| 2022 | 81 | 39 | 2,596 |
| 2021 | 120 | 54 | 4,661 |
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
Publisher-reported review time from the journal's website
350 dayssubmission to acceptance
The publisher's own definition applies; dates from this journal's articles in the last 24 months are not available yet, so the publisher's figure is used.
Figures by source
- Submission to first decision
- 4 daysPublisher website ·
- First decision after review
- 80 daysPublisher website ·
- Submission to acceptance
- 350 daysPublisher website ·
- Acceptance to publication
- 11 daysPublisher website ·
- 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 4,550 / EUR 4,260 / GBP 3,640 / JPY 564,340 | — | — | |
| Publisher website | USD 4,290 | — | — |
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.
Submission
Article types and submission policies (journal website)
Open calls for papers1, by deadline
Publisher websiteWhat to prepare8 items from the author guidelines
- Abstract
- ≤ 150 words
- Manuscript length
- ≤ 8,000 words
- Reference style
- APA
- First submission
- Free format: the journal's layout is not required
- Suggested reviewers
- Optional
- Highlights
- Required
- Graphical abstract
- Optional
- Cover letter
- Required
Article types accepted2
- all articlesAll articles 8,000 words in length (excluding references and tables), will be refereed and will particularly concentrate on empirical studies with practical app…Length not stated
- reviewAll articles 8,000 words in length (excluding references and tables), will be refereed and will particularly concentrate on empirical studies with practical app…Length not stated
Policy excerpts from the journal's websiteAI use, Authorship, Conflicts of interest, Publication ethics, License & copyright, Open access, Peer review, Plagiarism, Preprints
- AI use Declaration of generative AI in scientific writing
Authors must declare the use of generative AI tools in the manuscript preparation process upon submission of the paper.Generative AI and AI-assisted technologies (“AI tools”) have been rapidly adopted in research and scholarly publishing, offering significant benefits while requiring clear standards for responsible and transparent use.Authors preparing a manuscript for this journal may use AI tool…
Source ↗Publisher website ·- Authorship Changes to authorship
Authors are expected to consider carefully the list and order of authors before submitting their manuscript and provide the definitive list of authors at the time of the original submission. Any addition, deletion or rearrangement of author names in the authorship list should be made only before the manuscript has been accepted and only if approved by the journal Editor. To request such a change, …
Source ↗Publisher website ·- Conflicts of interest Declaration of interest
All authors must disclose any financial and personal relationships with other people or organizations that could inappropriately influence (bias) their work. Examples of potential competing interests include employment, consultancies, stock ownership, honoraria, paid expert testimony, patent applications/registrations, and grants or other funding. Authors must disclose any interests in two places:…
Source ↗Publisher website ·- Publication ethics Organisational Misconduct by Multinational Corporations in and from Emerging Economies
Despite an abundance of research on organisational misconduct and other types of wrongdoing by organizations in the fields of management, international business, and organization studies (Palmer, 2013; Hersel et al. 2019; Bahoo et al., 2020; de Jong & van Ees, 2014), not much scholarly attention has been directed toward studying these phenomena in the context of emerging economies (Anand et al., 2…
Source ↗Publisher website ·- License & copyright Copyright
Upon acceptance of an article, authors will be asked to complete a 'Journal Publishing Agreement' (see more information on this). An e-mail will be sent to the corresponding author confirming receipt of the manuscript together with a 'Journal Publishing Agreement' form or a link to the online version of this agreement.Subscribers may reproduce tables of contents or prepare lists of articles includ…
Source ↗Publisher website ·- Open access Open access
Please visit our Open Access page for more information about open access publishing in this journal.
Source ↗Publisher website ·- Peer review Peer review
Double anonymized review Model summary
This journal operates a double anonymized review process. All contributions will be initially assessed by the editor for suitability for the journal. Papers deemed suitable are then typically sent to a minimum of two independent expert reviewers to assess the scientific quality of the paper. The Editor is responsible for the final decision regarding acceptance or rejection of articles. The Editor'…
Source ↗Publisher website ·- Plagiarism Plagiarism
We have increasingly been receiving plagiarism complaints, from reviewers and authors and would like to warn you that all submitted papers go through a similarity check and if the similarity score is 25% or more (including authors own publications), the paper is rejected. This check is done at the submission and before the final acceptance of the paper.
Source ↗Publisher website ·- Preprints Preprint posting on SSRN
In support of Open Science, this journal offers its authors a free preprint posting service. Preprints provide early registration and dissemination of your research, which facilitates early citations and collaboration.During submission to Editorial Manager, you can choose to release your manuscript publicly as a preprint on the preprint server SSRN. Your choice will have no effect on the editorial…
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
- Elsevier
- ISSN
- 0969-5931
- Electronic ISSN
- 1873-6149
- Society / sponsor
- European International Business Academy
- Official links
- Journal homepage ↗LetPub
- Submission system ↗Publisher website
- Special issues ↗Publisher website
FAQ
Frequently asked questions about International Business Review
What CAS zone is International Business Review in?
In the 2025 upgraded edition of the CAS Journal Ranking, International Business Review is in Zone 2 of Management, and in Zone 2 of the minor category Business; it is a Top journal. In the 2026 Xinrui edition it is in Zone 1 of Management. Zones from different editions, and from major and minor categories, are not interchangeable.
What is the impact factor of International Business Review?
The latest impact factor listed by LetPub is 7.36; CiteScore 11.4, h-index 179.
How long does peer review take at International Business Review?
The publisher reports about 350 days (submission to acceptance). 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 International Business Review?
According to the journal's author guidelines: Abstract: ≤ 150 words; Manuscript length: ≤ 8,000 words; Reference style: APA; First submission: Free format: the journal's layout is not required; Suggested reviewers: Optional; Highlights: Required; Graphical abstract: Optional; Cover letter: Required. 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 International Business Review based?
Of the 183 board members whose country the journal's board page names, 11 (about 6%) are in mainland China; the countries named most often are United Kingdom (43), United States (29) and Australia (13). Counted from the institutions listed on the board page; for reference only.
Which databases index International Business Review?
According to LetPub and DOAJ records, International Business Review is indexed in SSCI and Scopus.
Is International Business Review open access, and what is the APC?
International Business Review is a hybrid journal. For open-access publication: APC about USD 4,550.
Sources and updates
The facts on this page come from LetPub, Publisher website, OpenAlex; 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: .