Journal profile · BUSINESS
Journal of East-West Business
ISSN 1066-9868 · eISSN 1528-6959 · Taylor & Francis
Journal of East-West Business: CAS Zone 4 · Management (2025 upgraded edition); impact factor 1.3 (journal website); subscription journal; APC charged, amount not published; median 211 days to acceptance (31 articles, last 24 months); acceptance rate 20% (journal website); 17 articles in 2025; indexed in ESCI and Scopus.
Scope
Aims, scope and focus
Journal of East-West Business is published by Taylor & Francis 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 International Business and FDI, Global trade and economics and Global Trade and Competitiveness, together about 41.5% of its articles. Its main subfields are Strategy and Management. (generated from OpenAlex topic counts and CAS ranking data)
Journal of East-West Business is a quarterly journal that deals with contemporary and emerging aspects of business studies, strategies, development, and practice as they relate to the Russian Federation, the new republics of the Commonwealth of Independent States, and Eastern/Central Europe-and business relationships with other countries of the world. The Journal of East-West Business is international in scope and treats business issues from comparative, cross-cultural, and cross-national perspectives. The journal features an Editorial Advisory Board that represents the Russian Federation, Eastern/Central European, and Baltic states in this new business arena. The journal covers an enormous gamut of inquiry, including: privatization of state enterprises management training and development foreign direct investment entrepreneurship and small business development joint ventures and strategic alliances telecommunications in Central Europe case studies transformation to the free-market economy system enhancement of distribution foreign direct investment management of technology transfer and reverse technology transfer export/import and trade development free trade and industrial growth market research in Central and Eastern Europe and the Commonwealth of Independent States international licensing/franchising development of tourism in Central and Eastern Europe and the Commonwealth of Independent States capital financing and budgeting other emerging topics of critical concern to countries in this area The Editorial Board of the Journal of East-West Business is truly international and unites practicing businessmen and academics of East and West in a common aim-to produce a journal oriented to business in the area that is relevant, readable, and credible. Peer Review Policy: All articles published in Journal of East-West Business have undergone rigorous peer review based on initial editor screening and anonymous refereeing by at least two anonymous referees who are subject experts.
From the journal's Aims & Scope
Research area (LetPub): BUSINESS
Editor-in-chief Desislava DikovaPublisher website
Editorial board by country: none in mainland China; most named Russia 2, United States 1 (3 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 Accounting21.2%
- Global trade and economicsEconomics, Econometrics and Finance11.7%
- Global Trade and CompetitivenessBusiness, Management and Accounting8.6%
- Innovation and Knowledge ManagementBusiness, Management and Accounting6%
- Russia and Soviet political economySocial Sciences6%
- Corporate Finance and GovernanceBusiness, Management and Accounting5.3%
- Consumer Behavior in Brand Consumption and IdentificationBusiness, Management and Accounting4.1%
- Entrepreneurship Studies and InfluencesBusiness, Management and Accounting3.7%
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 |
Top journal: noReview journal: no
CAS Xinrui Journal Ranking (March 2026)Management Zone 4
| Level | Category | Zone |
|---|---|---|
| Major | Management | Zone 4 |
| Minor | Business | Zone 4 |
Top journal: noReview journal: not marked
CAS Journal Ranking, previous upgraded edition (December 2023)Not covered
Not covered by this edition.
JCR / CiteScore quartiles on the journal's website
- CiteScore Q2 · 2025
Publisher-reported: JCR figures are Clarivate's and CiteScore figures Scopus's to confirm; both are a different system from the CAS zones.Publisher website
Database indexing
ESCIScopusLetPub
International journal early-warning lists: not listed in any editionLetPub
Indexing the journal's website claims
Web of ScienceEconLitPublisher website
Other: ProQuest, Dietrich’s Index Philosophicus, Academic Search Alumni Edition, Academic Search Complete, Academic Search Elite, Academic Search Premier, Academic Search Ultimate, Business Source Alumni Edition, Business Source Complete, Business Source Corporate Plus, Business Source Elite, Business Source Premier, Current Abstracts, Hospitality & Tourism Complete, Hospitality & Tourism Index, MasterFILE Complete, MasterFILE Premier, TOC Premier, GEOBASE, TEMA – Technology and Management, Periodica Islamica, ABI/INFORM Collection, ABI/INFORM Research, Business Premium Collection, Environmental Sciences and Pollution Management, Selective, International Bibliography of the Social Sciences, Core, PAIS Index, Selective, Politics Collection, Professional ABI/INFORM Complete
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) 2025
- 1.3Publisher website ·
- 5-year impact factor (publisher) 2025
- 1Publisher website ·
- CiteScore 2026-06
- 2.6LetPub ·
- CiteScore (publisher) 2025
- 2.6Publisher website ·
- SJR 2026-06
- 0.29LetPub ·
- SJR (publisher) 2025
- 0.29Publisher website ·
- SNIP 2026-06
- 0.67LetPub ·
- SNIP (publisher) 2025
- 0.67Publisher website ·
- h-index
- 29OpenAlex ·
- i10-index
- 154OpenAlex ·
- 2-year mean citedness
- 2.33OpenAlex ·
- Self-citation rate
- 15.4%LetPub ·
- Share of gold OA articles
- 3.92%LetPub ·
Volume
- Articles per year
- 17LetPub ·
- Downloads per year (publisher)
- 17,000Publisher website ·
Articles by year OpenAlex count · 586 in total · the current year is incomplete
| Year | Articles | Open access | Citations |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2026 | 11 | 2 | 11 |
| 2025 | 17 | 2 | 30 |
| 2024 | 18 | 1 | 66 |
| 2023 | 18 | 3 | 80 |
| 2022 | 20 | 2 | 91 |
| 2021 | 14 | 2 | 129 |
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
Review time from article dates manuscript dates registered with Crossref · to
211 daysMedian, submission to acceptance · P25–P75 154 days – 238 days
- Acceptance to online
- median 18 days (31 articles)
- Submission to online
- median 234 days
- Sample
- 31 articles with submission and acceptance dates (34 in the window); the latest was accepted on
Only articles that were accepted and published are counted, not the time spent on rejected manuscripts, so this usually runs longer than a publisher's "time to first decision".
Other sources
- Acceptance rate (publisher)
- 20%Publisher website ·
- Submission to first decision
- 69 daysPublisher website ·
- First decision after review
- 69 daysPublisher 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
Subscription journalLetPub
A subscription journal: articles are read by subscription or purchase, and authors usually pay no publication charge.
| Source | APC | Fee waiver | License | Observed |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Publisher website | Yes, amount not published | — | — |
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)
Policy excerpts from the journal's websiteOpen access, Peer review
- Open access Open access
Journal of East-West Business is a hybrid open access journal that is part of the Taylor & Francis Open Select publishing program, giving you the option to publish open access. Publishing open access means that your article will be free to access online immediately on publication, increasing the visibility, readership, and impact of your research. Why choose open access? Increase the discoverabili…
Source ↗Publisher website ·- Peer review
Peer review policy: initial editor screening and anonymous refereeing by at least two anonymous referees who are subject experts. Model summary
All articles published in Journal of East-West Business have undergone rigorous peer review based on initial editor screening and anonymous refereeing by at least two anonymous referees who are subject experts.
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
- Taylor & Francis
- ISSN
- 1066-9868
- Electronic ISSN
- 1528-6959
- Latest issue on the website
- Volume 32, Issue 3 (2026)
- Official links
- Journal homepage ↗LetPub
- Submission system ↗Publisher website
- Special issues ↗Publisher website
FAQ
Frequently asked questions about Journal of East-West Business
What CAS zone is Journal of East-West Business in?
In the 2025 upgraded edition of the CAS Journal Ranking, Journal of East-West Business is in Zone 4 of Management, and in Zone 4 of the minor category Business. In the 2026 Xinrui edition it is in Zone 4 of Management. Zones from different editions, and from major and minor categories, are not interchangeable.
What is the impact factor of Journal of East-West Business?
The journal's website gives an impact factor of 1.3 (2025); this is the journal's own figure, as LetPub lists none for it; CiteScore 2.6, h-index 29.
How long does peer review take at Journal of East-West Business?
Based on the dates recorded on 31 articles published between October 2024 and October 2026 (the last 24 months), the median time from submission to acceptance is 211 days (interquartile range 154–238 days); the journal's website gives an acceptance rate of 20%. 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.
Where are the editorial board members of Journal of East-West Business based?
Of the 3 board members whose country the journal's board page names, none are in mainland China; the countries named most often are Russia (2) and United States (1). Counted from the institutions listed on the board page; for reference only.
Which databases index Journal of East-West Business?
According to LetPub and DOAJ records, Journal of East-West Business is indexed in ESCI and Scopus. The journal's website also lists Web of Science and EconLit; that list has not been checked against each database.
Is Journal of East-West Business open access, and what is the APC?
Journal of East-West Business is a subscription journal. APC charged, amount not published.
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 2026-08-25). Last updated: .