About the Journal

˜Entrepreneurial Business and Economics Review' (EBER), as multi-disciplinary and multi-contextual journal, is dedicated to serving as a broad and unified platform for revealing and spreading economics and management research focused on entrepreneurship, individual entrepreneurs as well as particular entrepreneurial aspects of business. It attempts to link theory and practice in different sections of economics and management by publishing various types of articles, but mainly research papers. Our geographical scope of interests includes Central and Eastern Europe, however, we also welcome articles beyond this scope (the global marketplace and the global economy in general).

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.

No article submission or article processing fees are charged if the article does NOT exceed 50 000 characters incl. spaces.

Aim and Scope

A scientific open access quarterly focusing on Central and Eastern Europe as well as the Global Marketplace in general.

eISSN 2353-8821
(ISSN 2353-883X in the years 2013-2018)

Entrepreneurial Business and Economics Review (EBER), as a multi-disciplinary and multi-contextual journal, is dedicated to serve as a broad and unified platform for revealing and spreading  economics and management research focused on entrepreneurship, individual entrepreneurs as well as particular entrepreneurial aspects of business. It attempts to link theory and practice in different sections of economics and management by publishing various types of articles, mainly research papers, but sometimes also conceptual papers and literature reviews. Our geographical scope of interests includes Central and Eastern Europe; however, we also welcome articles beyond this scope (the global marketplace or the global economy in general). The Journal accept articles from the following fields:

  • Entrepreneurship (in particular entrepreneurship and innovation, strategic entrepreneurship,  corporate entrepreneurship, entrepreneurship methodology, the role of entrepreneurship and the entrepreneur in economics, entrepreneurial management, entrepreneurial business, entrepreneurship methodology, modern trends in business studies and organization theory, policies promoting entrepreneurship, innovation, digitalization, high-tech, R&D and SMEs, education for entrepreneurship),
  • International Business (especially international entrepreneurship, international management, international marketing, European business, and new trends in international business, IB methodology),
  • International Economics (especially FDI, international trade, international economics methodology, the economics of the European Union and emerging markets, as well as Europeanization).
 

EBER is indexed and abstracted in:

  1. Scopus (Elsevier, Netherlands)
  2. Scimago Journal Ranking (Granada, Spain)
  3. Web of Science Core Collection - ESCI Emerging Sources Citation Index (USA)
  4. Clarivate Anatylics (Beijing, China)
  5. Publons (Web of Science Group)
  6. EconLit - American Economic Association (USA)
  7. DOAJ (Directory Open Access Journals)
  8. Sherpa Romeo (UK)
  9. ProQuest ABI/INFORM Global, Entrepreneurship Database, (Ann Arbor, Michigan, USA)
  10. EBSCO Business Source Complete, Business Source Premier,  (Ipswich, Massachusetts, USA)
  11. Cabell's International (USA)
  12. ERIH Plus (Bergen, Norway)
  13. NSD Nordi Nordic List (Norway)
  14. Julkaisufoorumi - Finish Classification of Publications (Finland)  
  15. EconPapers - RePEc (Reserach Papers in Economics - Örebro, Sweden)
  16. BazEkon (Kraków, Poland)
  17. BazHum (Warsaw, Poland)
  18. Google Scholar (USA)
  19. ResearchGate RG Journal Impact (Berlin, Germany)
  20. ROAD Directory of Open Access Scholarly Resources (UNESCO ISSN Register)
  21. WorldCat - OCLC Online Computer Library Center, Inc. (Netherlands)
  22. CEEOL (Cetral and Eastern Euopean Online Library, Germany)
  23. ECONIS - Datenbank der ZBW (German National Library of Economics - Deutsche Zentralbibliothek für Wirtschaftswissenschaften ZBW)
  24. ECONBIZ - Datenbank der ZBW (German National Library of Economics - Deutsche Zentralbibliothek für Wirtschaftswissenschaften ZBW)
  25. ZDB - Zeitschriftendatenbank (German National Library - Deutsche Nationalbibliothek)
  26. EZB - Elektroinische Zeitschriftenbibliotek (Electronic Journals Library), Universitätsbibliothek
  27. WZB - Wissenschaftszentrum Berlin für Sozialforschung (Berlin Social Science Centre)
  28. OAJI (Open Academic Journals Index, Russian Federation)
  29. PBN (Polish Scholarly Bibliography)
  30. CeON - Centrum Otwartej Nauki - Biblioteka Nauki (Poland)
  31. ARIANTA (Naukowe i Branżowe Polskie Czasopisma Naukowe, Poland)
  32. Crossref CrossRef Metadata Search (Lynnfield, MA, USA)

 

Submission statistics (of January 2023)

Average time for initial manuscript evaluation: 21 days
Average time for reviewing manuscripts: 60 days
Average time an article is published: 180 days

 

 2023

published articles: 44

rejection rate (%): 88%

  1. of authors (co-authors): 129 (100%)

            incl. foreign authors: 65

           incl. domestic (country-based) authors: 64 of which local (EIC university-based) authors: 15

Countries of origin of authors in 2023: Norway, Italy, Denmark, Hungary, Pakistan, Bahrain, Germany, Jordan, Ukraine, Israel, Mexico, Thailand, Australia, United Arab Emirates, Vietnam, Canada, USA, Slovakia, Czech Republic, Lithuania, Malaya, Malaysia, Indonesia

number of reviewers: 200   (100%)

            incl. foreign reviewers: 62 (31%)

            incl. domestic reviewers:  138 (69 %)

2022

 

published articles: 44

rejection rate (%): 84%

  1. of authors (co-authors):  120 (100%)

            incl. foreign authors: 73%

           incl. domestic (country-based) authors: 27%  of which local (EIC university-based) authors: 1%

Countries of origin of authors in 2022: Australia, Austria, China, Croatia, Czech Republic, Germany, Hungary, India, Indonesia, Iran, Italy, Lithuania, Malaysia, Nigeria, Pakistan, Peru, Poland, Portugal, Republic of Korea, Russia, Saudi Arabia, Slovakia, Spain, Sweden, Tunisia, United Kingdom, Vietnam

number of reviewers:  106 (100%)

            incl. foreign reviewers:  71%

            incl. domestic reviewers:   29 %

 

2021

 

published articles: 48

rejection rate (%): 81 %

  1. of authors (co-authors):  119 (100%)

            incl. foreign authors: 68%

           incl. domestic (country-based) authors: 32%  of which local (EIC university-based) authors: 0 %

Countries of origin of authors in 2021: Bulgaria, Czech Republic, Finland, Germany, Hungary, Indonesia, Iraq, Italy, Lithuania, Malaysia, Nigeria, Oman, Peru, Poland, Portugal, Republic of Korea, Romania, Russia, South Africa, Spain, Tunisia, Turkey, Ukraine, Vietnam

number of reviewers:  142 (100%)

            incl. foreign reviewers:  74%

            incl. domestic reviewers:   29 %

 

 

2020

published articles: 46

rejection rate (%): 85%

no. of authors (co-authors):  111 (100%)

            incl. foreign authors: 68%

           incl. domestic (country-based) authors: 32%  of which local (EIC university-based) authors: 7%

Countries of origin of authors in 2020: Belarus, Cameroon, China, Czechia, Estonia, Germany, India, Indonesia, Lithuania, Malaysia, Mexico, Nigeria, Pakistan, Poland, Switzerland, Thailand, Turkey, Ukraine. United States, Vietnam

number of reviewers:  162 (100%)

            incl. foreign reviewers:  54%

            incl. domestic reviewers:   46 %

 

2019

published articles: 51

rejection rate (%): 75%

no. of authors (co-authors):  106 (100%)

            incl. foreign authors: 58%

           incl. domestic (country-based) authors: 42%  of which local (EIC university-based) authors: 13%

Countries of origin of authors in 2019: Afghanistan, Albania, Belarus, Bosnia and Herzegovina, China, Czech Republic, Germany, Hungary, Iran, Italy, Kenya, Lithuania, Oman, Poland, Portugal, Romania, Slovakia, Slovenia, South Africa, Spain, Sri Lanka, Turkey, Ukraine, United Arab Emirates, United Kingdom, United States, Venezuela, Vietnam

number of reviewers:  102 (100%)

            incl. foreign reviewers: 57 %

            incl. domestic reviewers:  43 %

 

2018

published articles: 47

rejection rate (%): 56%

no. of authors (co-authors):  98 (100%)

            incl. foreign authors: 53%

           incl. domestic (country-based) authors: 47%  of which (EIC university-based) local authors: 2%

Countries of origin of authors in 2018: Austria, China, Columbia, Croatia, Estonia, Israel, Italy, Lithuenia, Nigeria, Poland, Serbia, Slovakia, South Africa, Switzerland, Tunisia, Ukraine, United Arab Emirates, United Kingdom, United States.

number of reviewers:  114 (100%)

            incl. foreign reviewers: 55%

            incl. domestic reviewers:45 %

 

2017

published articles: 45

rejection rate (%): 51%

no. of authors (co-authors): 87 (100%)

            incl. foreign authors: 46%

           incl. domestic (country-based) authors: 54%  of which local (EIC university-based) authors: 13%

Countries of origin of authors in 2017: Australia, Austria, Bosnia and Herzegovina, Canada, Croatia, Czech Republic, Germany, Hungary, Indonesia, Ireland, Korea, Nigeria, Norway, Poland, Serbia, UK, USA

number of reviewers: 79 (100%)

            incl. foreign reviewers: 60%

            incl. domestic reviewers: 40%


2016

published articles: 45

rejection rate (%): 41%

no. of authors (co-authors): 77 (100%)

            incl. foreign authors: 35%

           incl. domestic (country-based) authors: 65%  of which local (EIC university-based) authors: 10%

Countries of origins of authors in 2016:

number of reviewers: 79 (100%)

            incl. foreign reviewers: 57%

            incl. domestic reviewers: 43%

 

2015

published articles: 34

rejection rate (%): 40%

no. of authors (co-authors): 56 (100%)

            incl. foreign authors: 64%

           incl. domestic (country-based) authors: 36%  of which local (EIC university-based) authors: 20%

Countries of origins of authors in 2015:

number of reviewers: 56 (100%)

            incl. foreign reviewers: 64%

            incl. domestic reviewers: 36%

 

2014

published articles: 24

rejection rate (%): 37%

no. of authors (co-authors): 44 (100%)

            incl. foreign authors: 68%

           incl. domestic (country-based) authors: 32%  of which local (EIC university-based) authors: 14%

Countries of origins of authors in 2014: 

number of reviewers: 48 (100%)

            incl. foreign reviewers: 62%

            incl. domestic reviewers: 38%

 

2013

published articles: 24

rejection rate (%): 33%

no. of authors (co-authors): 33 (100%)

           incl. foreign authors: 51,5%

           incl. domestic (country-based) authors: 48,5%  of which local (EIC university-based) authors: 21%

Countries of origin of authors in 2013: Lithuania, Poland, Russia, Serbia, Spain, Slovakia 

number of reviewers: 42 (100%)

            incl. foreign reviewers: 52%

            incl. domestic reviewers: 48%

 

 

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