Journal profile · BUSINESS
International Journal of Engineering Business Management
ISSN 1847-9790 · SAGE Publishing · United Kingdom
International Journal of Engineering Business Management: CAS Zone 3 · Management (2025 upgraded edition); impact factor 6.5 (journal website); fully open access; APC about USD 2,000; review about 15 weeks (community reports); acceptance rate 33% (journal website); 34 articles in 2025; indexed in ESCI and Scopus.
Scope
Aims, scope and focus
International Journal of Engineering Business Management is published by SAGE Publishing and is in Zone 3 of Management in the CAS Journal Ranking (2025 upgraded edition). By OpenAlex counts of its recent articles, its largest topics are Quality and Supply Management, Innovation and Knowledge Management and Sustainable Supply Chain Management, together about 24.2% of its articles. Its main subfields are Management Information Systems. (generated from OpenAlex topic counts and CAS ranking data)
The International Journal of Engineering Business Management (IJEBM) is an international, peer-reviewed, open access scientific journal that aims to promote an integrated and multidisciplinary approach to engineering, business and management. The journal focuses on issues related to the design, development and implementation of new methodologies and technologies that contribute to strategic and operational improvements of organizations within the contemporary global business environment. IJEBM encourages a systematic and holistic view in order to ensure an integrated and economically, socially and environmentally friendly approach to management of new technologies in business. It aims to be a world-class research platform for academics, managers, and professionals to publish scholarly research in the global arena.All submitted articles considered suitable for the International Journal of Engineering Business Management are subjected to rigorous peer review to ensure the highest levels of quality. The review process is carried out as quickly as possible to minimize any delays in the online publication of articles.Topics of interest include, but are not limited to:Competitive product design and innovationOperations and manufacturing strategyKnowledge management and knowledge innovationInformation and decision support systemsRadio Frequency IdentificationWireless Sensor NetworksIndustrial engineering for business improvementLogistics engineering and transportationModeling and simulation of industrial and business systemsQuality management and Six SigmaAutomation of industrial processes and systemsManufacturing performance and productivity measurementSupply Chain Management and the virtual enterprise networkEnvironmental, legal and social aspectsTechnology Capital and Financial ModellingEngineering Economics and Investment TheoryBehavioural, Social and Political factors in Engineering
From the journal's Aims & Scope
Research area (LetPub): BUSINESS
Main research topics OpenAlex counts of recent articles; shares are approximate
- Quality and Supply ManagementBusiness, Management and Accounting10.8%
- Innovation and Knowledge ManagementBusiness, Management and Accounting7.4%
- Sustainable Supply Chain ManagementBusiness, Management and Accounting6%
- Technology Adoption and User BehaviourDecision Sciences5.6%
- Supply Chain and Inventory ManagementBusiness, Management and Accounting5.1%
- Outsourcing and Supply Chain ManagementBusiness, Management and Accounting4.7%
- Construction Project Management and PerformanceDecision Sciences4.5%
- Digital Marketing and Social MediaSocial Sciences4.3%
Rankings & indexing
CAS ranking and database indexing
CAS Journal Ranking
CAS Journal Ranking, upgraded edition (March 2025)Management Zone 3
| Level | Category | Zone |
|---|---|---|
| Major | Management | Zone 3 |
| Minor | Business | Zone 4 |
Top journal: noReview journal: no
CAS Xinrui Journal Ranking (March 2026)Management Zone 2
| Level | Category | Zone |
|---|---|---|
| Major | Management | Zone 2 |
| Minor | Business | 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)
- 6.5Publisher website ·
- 5-year impact factor (publisher)
- 5.6Publisher website ·
- CiteScore 2026-06
- 11.2LetPub ·
- SJR 2026-06
- 1.01LetPub ·
- SNIP 2026-06
- 2.16LetPub ·
- h-index
- 55OpenAlex ·
- i10-index
- 310OpenAlex ·
- 2-year mean citedness
- 7.05OpenAlex ·
- Self-citation rate
- 3.1%LetPub ·
- Share of gold OA articles
- 100%LetPub ·
Volume
- Articles per year
- 33LetPub ·
Articles by year OpenAlex count · 535 in total · the current year is incomplete
| Year | Articles | Open access | Citations |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2026 | 24 | 24 | 13 |
| 2025 | 34 | 34 | 183 |
| 2024 | 23 | 23 | 375 |
| 2023 | 24 | 24 | 780 |
| 2022 | 28 | 28 | 756 |
| 2021 | 29 | 29 | 1,068 |
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 15 weeksLetPub ·
- Acceptance rate (publisher)
- 33%Publisher website ·
- Submission to first decision
- 3 daysPublisher website ·
- Acceptance to publication
- 23 daysPublisher website ·
- Submission to publication (journal-reported)
- about 15 weeksDOAJ ·
- Peer review
- Double 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
Fully open accessDOAJ
Every article is open access; authors usually pay an article processing charge (APC).
| Source | APC | Fee waiver | License | Observed |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| DOAJ | USD 2,000 | Yes | CC BY | |
| OpenAlex | USD 2,000 | — | — | |
| LetPub | USD 2,000 | Yes | — | |
| Publisher website | USD 2,400 | — | — |
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 prepare5 items from the author guidelines
- Reference style
- Vancouver
- First submission
- Free format: the journal's layout is not required
- Suggested reviewers
- Optional
- Highlights
- Required
- Cover letter
- Required
Article types accepted13
- brief communicationView our Special Collections currently accepting submissions. Original Research Article Article describing original research. Research articles should be 6 to 1…Length not stated
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- letters to the editorView our Special Collections currently accepting submissions. Original Research Article Article describing original research. Research articles should be 6 to 1…Length not stated
- opinionView our Special Collections currently accepting submissions. Original Research Article Article describing original research. Research articles should be 6 to 1…Length not stated
- original researchView our Special Collections currently accepting submissions. Original Research Article Article describing original research. Research articles should be 6 to 1…Length not stated
- original research articleView our Special Collections currently accepting submissions. Original Research Article Article describing original research. Research articles should be 6 to 1…Length not stated
- perspectiveView our Special Collections currently accepting submissions. Original Research Article Article describing original research. Research articles should be 6 to 1…Length not stated
- research articleView our Special Collections currently accepting submissions. Original Research Article Article describing original research. Research articles should be 6 to 1…Length not stated
- reviewReview Article presenting an original overview of recent research and advances in a given area. Review articles should be 6-12 pages in length, including refere…Length not stated
- review articleView our Special Collections currently accepting submissions. Original Research Article Article describing original research. Research articles should be 6 to 1…Length not stated
- short communicationView our Special Collections currently accepting submissions. Original Research Article Article describing original research. Research articles should be 6 to 1…Length not stated
- viewpointView our Special Collections currently accepting submissions. Original Research Article Article describing original research. Research articles should be 6 to 1…Length not stated
Policy excerpts from the journal's websiteAuthorship, Data availability, Publication ethics, Open access, Peer review, Plagiarism, Preprints, Trial registration / reporting guidelines
- Authorship Authorship
Please view our authorship policies, which includes information on criteria for authorship, who should be the corresponding author and more. Please note that AI chatbots, for example ChatGPT, should not be listed as authors. For more information see the policy on Use of ChatGPT and generative AI tools.
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
COPE member Model summary
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
International Journal of Engineering Business Management is an open access, peer-reviewed journal. All accepted articles are made freely available online immediately upon publication, are published under a Creative Commons license, and hosted online in perpetuity. If, after peer review, your manuscript is accepted for publication, a one-time article processing charge (APC) is payable to cover the …
Source ↗Publisher website ·- Peer review Peer review policy
Double anonymized peer review Model summary
The following summary describes the peer review process for this journal: Identity transparency: Double-anonymized Reviewer interacts with: Editor Review information published: Review reports (reviewer opt in) 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. M…
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
The journal will consider submissions of manuscripts that have been posted on preprint servers. Please enter the preprint DOI in the designated field when submitting your manuscript. We advise that you inform the Journal Editorial office about your posted preprint at submission. Note that you should not post an updated version of your manuscript on a preprint server while it is being peer reviewed…
Source ↗Publisher website ·- Trial registration / reporting guidelines Clinical trial registration
The journal conforms to the ICMJE requirement that clinical trials are registered in a WHO-approved public trials registry at or before the time of first participant enrollment as a condition of consideration for publication. The trial registry name and URL, and registration number must be included at the end of the abstract.
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 Publishing
- Country or region
- United Kingdom
- Language
- English
- ISSN
- 1847-9790
- Official links
- Journal homepage ↗OpenAlex
- Submission system ↗Publisher website
- Author guidelines ↗LetPub
- Aims & Scope ↗LetPub
- Special issues ↗Publisher website
- APC information ↗DOAJ
- Fee waivers ↗DOAJ
- Open access statement ↗DOAJ
- License & copyright ↗DOAJ
- Peer review process ↗LetPub
- Editorial board ↗LetPub
- Plagiarism policy ↗DOAJ
FAQ
Frequently asked questions about International Journal of Engineering Business Management
What CAS zone is International Journal of Engineering Business Management in?
In the 2025 upgraded edition of the CAS Journal Ranking, International Journal of Engineering Business Management is in Zone 3 of Management, and in Zone 4 of the minor category Business. In the 2026 Xinrui edition it is in Zone 2 of Management. Zones from different editions, and from major and minor categories, are not interchangeable.
What is the impact factor of International Journal of Engineering Business Management?
The journal's website gives an impact factor of 6.5; this is the journal's own figure, as LetPub lists none for it; CiteScore 11.2, h-index 55.
How long does peer review take at International Journal of Engineering Business Management?
Authors report an average review time of about 15 weeks; the journal's website gives an acceptance rate of 33%. 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 Journal of Engineering Business Management?
According to the journal's author guidelines: Reference style: Vancouver; First submission: Free format: the journal's layout is not required; Suggested reviewers: Optional; Highlights: Required; 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.
Which databases index International Journal of Engineering Business Management?
According to LetPub and DOAJ records, International Journal of Engineering Business Management is indexed in ESCI, Scopus and DOAJ.
Is International Journal of Engineering Business Management open access, and what is the APC?
International Journal of Engineering Business Management is a fully open-access journal. APC about USD 2,000.
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: .