Journal profile · Multiple
RBGN-Revista Brasileira de Gestao de Negocios
ISSN 1806-4892 · eISSN 1983-0807 · Fundação Escola de Comércio Álvares Penteado · Brazil
RBGN-Revista Brasileira de Gestao de Negocios: CAS Zone 4 · Management (2025 upgraded edition); impact factor 1.07; diamond open access (no APC); no APC; review about 50 weeks (community reports); 25 articles in 2025; indexed in SSCI and Scopus.
Scope
Aims, scope and focus
RBGN-Revista Brasileira de Gestao de Negocios is published by Fundação Escola de Comércio Álvares Penteado 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 Business and Management Studies, Corporate Finance and Governance and Customer Service Quality and Loyalty, together about 28.8% of its articles. (generated from OpenAlex topic counts and CAS ranking data)
RBGN (Revista Brasileira de Gestão de Negócios) is a free of charge open access quarterly academic publication issued by FECAP (Fundação Escola de Comércio Álvares Penteado). The Journal emerged in 2004 as the successor of the Álvares Penteado Review. The journal is aimed at the dissemination and promotion of scientific debate in Business Administration and Accounting. Key Metrics (2025): AJG RATING 2024: (ABS 1), CLARIVATE-JCR (2025): (IMPACT FACTOR: 1.1) (5-YEAR IF: 1.3), SCOPUS (2025): (CITESCORE 2.1) (SJR: 0.307), eISSN: 1983-0807 / ISSN: 1806-4892 More Less
From the journal's Aims & Scope
Research area (LetPub): Multiple
Editorial board by country: none in mainland China; most named Brazil 18, Spain 7, Portugal 6, United States 5, Australia 2 (44 members with a country) Editorial board ↗Publisher website ·
Main research topics OpenAlex counts of recent articles; shares are approximate
- Business and Management StudiesDecision Sciences15.1%
- Corporate Finance and GovernanceBusiness, Management and Accounting7.6%
- Customer Service Quality and LoyaltyBusiness, Management and Accounting6.1%
- Environmental Sustainability in BusinessBusiness, Management and Accounting5.2%
- Innovation and Knowledge ManagementBusiness, Management and Accounting4.9%
- Technology Adoption and User BehaviourDecision Sciences4.9%
- Auditing, Earnings Management, GovernanceBusiness, Management and Accounting4.7%
- Corporate Social Responsibility ReportingBusiness, Management and Accounting4.4%
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 4
| Level | Category | Zone |
|---|---|---|
| Major | Management | Zone 4 |
| Minor | Business | Zone 4 |
| Minor | Management | Zone 4 |
Top journal: noReview journal: not marked
CAS Journal Ranking, previous upgraded edition (December 2023)Management Zone 4
| Level | Category | Zone |
|---|---|---|
| Major | Management | Zone 4 |
| Minor | Business | Zone 4 |
| Minor | Management | Zone 4 |
Top journal: noReview journal: no
Database indexing
SSCIScopusDOAJLetPub
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
- 1.07LetPub ·
- Impact factor (publisher)
- 1.1Publisher website ·
- 5-year impact factor (publisher)
- 1.3Publisher website ·
- CiteScore 2026-06
- 2.1LetPub ·
- CiteScore (publisher)
- 2.1Publisher website ·
- SJR 2026-06
- 0.27LetPub ·
- SJR (publisher)
- 0.31Publisher website ·
- SNIP 2026-06
- 0.39LetPub ·
- h-index
- 31OpenAlex ·
- i10-index
- 186OpenAlex ·
- 2-year mean citedness
- 1.33OpenAlex ·
- Self-citation rate
- 9.1%LetPub ·
- Share of gold OA articles
- 97.56%LetPub ·
Volume
- Articles per year
- 25LetPub ·
Articles by year OpenAlex count · 670 in total · the current year is incomplete
| Year | Articles | Open access | Citations |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2026 | 12 | 12 | 0 |
| 2025 | 25 | 25 | 13 |
| 2024 | 27 | 27 | 72 |
| 2023 | 31 | 31 | 170 |
| 2022 | 40 | 40 | 266 |
| 2021 | 41 | 41 | 342 |
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 50 weeksLetPub ·
- Submission to publication (journal-reported)
- about 50 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
Diamond open access (no APC)DOAJ
Every article is open access and authors pay no article processing charge.
| Source | APC | Fee waiver | License | Observed |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| DOAJ | No APC | No | CC BY | |
| LetPub | No APC | No | — |
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 prepare9 items from the author guidelines
- Abstract
- ≤ 250 words
- Manuscript length
- ≤ 8,000 words
- Reference style
- APA
- Templates
- Word
- First submission
- Free format: the journal's layout is not required
- Suggested reviewers
- Required
- Highlights
- Required
- Graphical abstract
- Required
- Cover letter
- Required
Policy excerpts from the journal's websiteLicense & copyright, Open access, Preprints
- License & copyright Copyright Notice
CC-BY Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 license Model summary
If a paper is approved for publication, its copyright has to be transferred by the author(s) to the Review of Business Management – RBGN. Accordingly, authors are REQUIRED to send RBGN a duly completed and signed Copyright Transfer Form. The conditions set out by the Copyright Transfer Form state that the Review of Business Management – RBGN owns, free of charge and permanently, the copyright of t…
Source ↗Publisher website ·- Open access
Open science / data sharing policy Model summary
RBGN asks authors to share in a public data repository all the information necessary to reproduce the submitted research, including information that is only implicit in the article.
Source ↗Publisher website ·- Preprints
Preprint policy: preprints allowed, DOI required Model summary
RBGN accepts submissions of manuscripts that have been deposited and/or published on preprint servers (e.g., SciELO Preprints). In such cases, authors must provide the corresponding DOI(s).
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
- Fundação Escola de Comércio Álvares Penteado
- Country or region
- Brazil
- Language
- Spanish, English, Portuguese
- ISSN
- 1806-4892
- Electronic ISSN
- 1983-0807
- Latest issue on the website
- Volume 28, Issue 4 (2026)
- Official links
- Journal homepage ↗LetPub
- Submission system ↗Publisher website
- Author guidelines ↗LetPub
- Aims & Scope ↗LetPub
- APC information ↗DOAJ
- Open access statement ↗DOAJ
- License & copyright ↗DOAJ
- Peer review process ↗LetPub
- Editorial board ↗LetPub
- Plagiarism policy ↗DOAJ
FAQ
Frequently asked questions about RBGN-Revista Brasileira de Gestao de Negocios
What CAS zone is RBGN-Revista Brasileira de Gestao de Negocios in?
In the 2025 upgraded edition of the CAS Journal Ranking, RBGN-Revista Brasileira de Gestao de Negocios 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 4 of Management. Zones from different editions, and from major and minor categories, are not interchangeable.
What is the impact factor of RBGN-Revista Brasileira de Gestao de Negocios?
The latest impact factor listed by LetPub is 1.07; CiteScore 2.1, h-index 31.
How long does peer review take at RBGN-Revista Brasileira de Gestao de Negocios?
Authors report an average review time of about 50 weeks. 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 RBGN-Revista Brasileira de Gestao de Negocios?
According to the journal's author guidelines: Abstract: ≤ 250 words; Manuscript length: ≤ 8,000 words; Reference style: APA; Templates: Word; First submission: Free format: the journal's layout is not required; Suggested reviewers: Required; Highlights: Required; Graphical abstract: 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.
Where are the editorial board members of RBGN-Revista Brasileira de Gestao de Negocios based?
Of the 44 board members whose country the journal's board page names, none are in mainland China; the countries named most often are Brazil (18), Spain (7) and Portugal (6). Counted from the institutions listed on the board page; for reference only.
Which databases index RBGN-Revista Brasileira de Gestao de Negocios?
According to LetPub and DOAJ records, RBGN-Revista Brasileira de Gestao de Negocios is indexed in SSCI, Scopus and DOAJ.
Is RBGN-Revista Brasileira de Gestao de Negocios open access, and what is the APC?
RBGN-Revista Brasileira de Gestao de Negocios is a diamond open-access journal (no APC). It charges no article processing charge.
Sources and updates
The facts on this page come from LetPub, OpenAlex, Publisher website, 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: .