Abbreviated title (ISO 4) Int. Small Bus. J. Language English Publisher SAGE Publications | Discipline Economics Edited by Robert Blackburn | |
Former names European Small Business Journal (until 1983, ISSN 0264-6560) | ||
The International Small Business Journal (ISBJ) is a peer-reviewed academic journal that covers the fields of economics and entrepreneurship, especially small businesses. The journal's editor-in-chief is Robert Blackburn (Kingston University). It was established in 1982 and is currently published by SAGE Publications.
Contents
Abstracting and indexing
The journal is abstracted and indexed in Current Contents, the Business Periodicals Index, the International Bibliography of the Social Sciences, Scopus, and the Social Sciences Citation Index. According to the Journal Citation Reports, its 2013 impact factor is 1.397, ranking it 55th out of 110 journals in the category "Business" and 70th out of 172 journals in the category "Management".
Virtual Issues
The International Small Business Journal has brought together several collections of research, previously published in the journal, in ‘virtual issues’ centered on key themes in the field. Recent virtual issues include Female Entrepreneurship, which explores the journal’s contribution to female entrepreneurship research, and Remembering Jason Cope which celebrates the life, and academic legacy, of the late entrepreneurship scholar.
Best Paper Award
In 2008 The International Small Business Journal founded the ISBJ Best Paper Prize, which is awarded annually to the authors of one paper, published in the journal, in the year of the award. The papers are assessed in terms of "focus […]; theoretical positioning; methodological rigour; policy and or practitioner implications; and interest for future research activity".