International Journal of Business Administration
- Focus and Scope
- Section Policies
- Peer Review Process
- Publication Frequency
- Open Access Policy
- Archiving
- Indexes
- Journal Metrics
- Special Issue
Focus and Scope
International Journal of Business Administration aims to provide a platform for academics, researchers and practitioners to exchange theoretical, empirical, and applied research in business administration.
In line with its aims, IJBA welcomes high quality theoretical papers, empirical studies, reviews, and mixed-methods research in areas including, but not limited to:
- Business Administration and Management
- Strategy and Governance
- Leadership, Organization and Human Resources
- Marketing and Customer Management
- Entrepreneurship, Innovation, and Growth
- Operations and Process Management
- Accounting, Finance, and Performance
- International and Digital Business & Technology-Enabled Administration
Submissions should make a clear contribution to business administration or managerial practice. And all submissions must undergo rigorous peer review to ensure academic integrity and quality.
Section Policies
Articles
 Open Submissions |
Indexed |
Peer Reviewed |
Peer Review Process
The journal uses double-anonymized peer-reviewed system for peer-review. The manuscript will be peer-reviewed by at least two independent external reviewers with relevant expertise. The review process may take 4-10 weeks. The editorial board makes the editorial decision after considering the reviewers' reports, the manuscript's scholarly quality, relevance, originality, methodological or analytical validity, ethical compliance, reporting quality, and any other relevant information. Possible decisions include acceptance, minor revision, major revision, rejection with an invitation to submit a substantially revised manuscript as a new submission, or rejection.
Publication Frequency
Quarterly, published in March, June, September and December
Open Access Policy
This journal provides immediate open access to its content on the principle that making research freely available to the public supports a greater global exchange of knowledge.
Archiving
This journal utilizes the LOCKSS system to create a distributed archiving system among participating libraries and permits those libraries to create permanent archives of the journal for purposes of preservation and restoration. More...
Indexes
AcademicKeys
BASE - Bielefeld Academic Search Engine
Directory of Research Journal Indexing
ECONIS
EconPapers (RePEc)
Electronic Journals Library
Google Scholar
IndexCopernicus International
InfoBase Index
JournalTOCs
Library and Archives Canada (LAC)
Lockss
NewJour
Norwegian Centre for Research Data
Open Academic Journals Index
PKP Open Archives Harvester
RePEc
Scirus
SHERPA/RoMEO
The Standard Periodical Directory
ZBW – German National Library of Economics
Journal Metrics
1. Google-based Journal Impact Factor (2025): 1.22
The journal impact factor (JIF) normally referred to is the proprietary journal impact factor from Thomson Reuters calculated based on the Web of Science (WOS) and published in the Journal Citation Reports® (JCR). Although this journal has no JCR®JIF, it an alternative Google-based impact factor.
Today, most of readers find their way to our articles via Google Scholar. No open or proprietary database is directing so many readers to our articles. Google Scholar is the only openly available database suitable for journal metric calculation. It has a wide coverage and is a meaningful source. For this reason, Sciedu Press is calculating its own Impact Factor based on Google Scholar's citation counts. Scientists are used to Thomson Reuters' way of calculating an impact factor. For this reason, Sciedu Press applies Thomson Reuters'(TR) algorithm as published on https://clarivate.com/essays/impact-factor/ in Figure 1.
The 2025 Google-based impact factor of this journal is calculated as follows:
A = total cites in 2025 = 656
B = 2025 cites to articles published in 2023-24 = 148 (this is a subset of A)
C = number of articles published in 2023-24 = 121
D = B/C = 2025 Impact Factor = 148/121 = 1.22 (Based on Google citations)
2. h-index: 64
h-index is the largest number h such that h publications have at least h citations.
The data was calculated based on Google Scholar Citations
3. i10-index: 285
i10-index is the number of publications with at least 10 citations.
The data was calculated based on Google Scholar Citations
Special Issue
To better serve the academic community, we welcome collaboration with academic and research institutions to publish special issues. If you are interested in proposing a special issue for our journal, please submit your inquiry and proposal to ijba@sciedupress.com
Download Special Issue Proposal MS-Word
Before submitting a proposal, please note the following:
- The special issue should focus on a specific research topic, conference theme, or closely related area within the journal’s scope.
- All manuscripts submitted to the special issue will follow the same editorial and peer-review process as regular submissions.
- Proposed guest editors and reviewers are subject to approval by the journal.
- Proposals should be submitted to the journal at least five months before the planned publication date.
- An article processing charge (APC) applies to each accepted article.
- All published articles will be freely available online as open-access articles.
We are committed to facilitating the dissemination of high-quality research and knowledge through special issues. We look forward to working with you to bring your research to a wider audience. Please do not hesitate to contact us if you have any queries or concerns.