Journal profile
Sustainable Business and Society in Emerging Economies
ISSN 2708-2504 · eISSN 2708-2172 · CSRC Publishing · Pakistan
Sustainable Business and Society in Emerging Economies: diamond open access (no APC); no APC; review about 12 weeks (community reports); 81 articles in 2025.
Scope
Aims, scope and focus
Sustainable Business and Society in Emerging Economies is published by CSRC Publishing. By OpenAlex counts of its recent articles, its largest topics are Job Satisfaction and Organizational Behavior, Environmental Sustainability in Business and Employee Performance and Management, together about 29.7% of its articles. Its main subfields are Strategy and Management. (generated from OpenAlex topic counts and CAS ranking data)
The journal strives to highlight theoretical and policy issues related to sustainable business practices and social issues faced by society in emerging and developing economies. The SBSEE seeks to integrate the actors and institutions in business and society given that sustainability issues are though found in market yet their solution requires deep and coordinated understanding of these issues from perspectives of various disciplines of social sciences, arts and humanities. With this background SBSEE aims to be a premier forum for policy and theoretical discussion of high impact research related to sustainable business and social development in emerging and developing economies. The journal aims to cover sustainability topics and issues in various sub-areas of business, social and behavioral sciences in context of emerging and developing economies. Purpose is to highlight the theoretical and practical issues faced by businesses and society in these economies. The journal also welcomes submissions which focus the broader areas of business, management sciences and various areas of social sciences, arts and humanities.
From the journal's Aims & Scope
Editor-in-chief K. Kuperan ViswanathanPublisher website
Main research topics OpenAlex counts of recent articles; shares are approximate
- Job Satisfaction and Organizational BehaviorBusiness, Management and Accounting10.5%
- Environmental Sustainability in BusinessBusiness, Management and Accounting10.5%
- Employee Performance and ManagementSocial Sciences8.7%
- Sustainable Supply Chain ManagementBusiness, Management and Accounting5.1%
- Corporate Governance and Financial ManagementBusiness, Management and Accounting4.9%
- Technology Adoption and User BehaviourDecision Sciences4.6%
- Corporate Social Responsibility ReportingBusiness, Management and Accounting4.6%
- Entrepreneurship Studies and InfluencesBusiness, Management and Accounting4.1%
Rankings & indexing
CAS ranking and database indexing
CAS Journal Ranking
CAS Journal Ranking, upgraded edition (March 2025)Not covered
Not covered by this edition.
CAS Xinrui Journal Ranking (March 2026)Not covered
Not covered by this edition.
CAS Journal Ranking, previous upgraded edition (December 2023)Not covered
Not covered by this edition.
Database indexing
DOAJLetPub
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
- h-index
- 9OpenAlex ·
- i10-index
- 9OpenAlex ·
- 2-year mean citedness
- 0.33OpenAlex ·
- Share of gold OA articles
- 0%LetPub ·
Articles by year OpenAlex count · 394 in total · the current year is incomplete
| Year | Articles | Open access | Citations |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2026 | 49 | 49 | 77 |
| 2025 | 81 | 81 | 107 |
| 2024 | 49 | 49 | 101 |
| 2023 | 43 | 43 | 75 |
| 2022 | 83 | 83 | 69 |
| 2021 | 60 | 60 | 6 |
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 12 weeksLetPub ·
- Submission to publication (journal-reported)
- about 12 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-NC | |
| LetPub | No APC | No | — | |
| 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)
What to prepare6 items from the author guidelines
- Abstract
- ≤ 200 words
- Keywords
- ≥ 6
- Manuscript length
- ≤ 5,000 words
- Reference style
- APA
- Templates
- Word
- First submission
- Free format: the journal's layout is not required
Policy excerpts from the journal's websiteOpen access, Plagiarism
- Open access OPEN ACCESS AND COPY RIGHT POLICY
Open access under CC BY-NC 4.0; attribution of authors, journal, and publisher required. Model summary
All journals published on this website are licensed & copyrighted under a Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial 4.0 International License.
Source ↗Publisher website ·- Plagiarism
Zero tolerance plagiarism policy; Turnitin screening; >19% similarity returned to authors; post-publication corrections/retractions possible. Model summary
In accordance with the guidelines of Higher Education Commission (HEC) Pakistan and Committee on Publication Ethids (COPE), Sustainable Business and Society in Emerging Economies (SBSEE) observes Zero Tolerance to plagiarism. We use Turnitin for all research papers submitted to detect possible plagiarism. If similarity is more than 19%, the paper is returned to the author(s) immediately.
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
- CSRC Publishing
- Country or region
- Pakistan
- Language
- English
- ISSN
- 2708-2504
- Electronic ISSN
- 2708-2172
- Official links
- Journal homepage ↗LetPub
- Author guidelines ↗LetPub
- Aims & Scope ↗LetPub
- Special issues ↗Publisher website
- 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 Sustainable Business and Society in Emerging Economies
How long does peer review take at Sustainable Business and Society in Emerging Economies?
Authors report an average review time of about 12 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 Sustainable Business and Society in Emerging Economies?
According to the journal's author guidelines: Abstract: ≤ 200 words; Keywords: ≥ 6; Manuscript length: ≤ 5,000 words; Reference style: APA; Templates: Word; First submission: Free format: the journal's layout is not 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 Sustainable Business and Society in Emerging Economies?
According to LetPub and DOAJ records, Sustainable Business and Society in Emerging Economies is indexed in DOAJ.
Is Sustainable Business and Society in Emerging Economies open access, and what is the APC?
Sustainable Business and Society in Emerging Economies 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, DOAJ, 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: .