About the Journal

  • JCI
    0.2
    2025
  • Clarivate Analytics
    0.7
    2025 Impact factor

“International Entrepreneurship Review” (IER) is a scientific journal published by the Centre for Strategic and International Entrepreneurship in close cooperation with the Department of International Trade of Krakow University of Economics, issued quarterly.

The journal covers the results of research and exchange of experience related to the issues of both international microeconomics (firms as a research subject) and international macroeconomics (economy as a research subject), with particular emphasis on international entrepreneurship in various spatial systems of the global economy. 

“International Entrepreneurship Review” publishes scientific articles, among others, in the following areas:

  • international business,
  • international economics,
  • entrepreneurship.

WE DON'T PUBLISH ARTICLES BEYOND THESE TOPICS ANY MORE!
We prioritize any articles on various aspects of international entrepreneurship! 

You are very welcome to submit your article into our journal.

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.

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. From now on, our journal content is published under CC BY 4.0 license (https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/) from 2023 (since vol. 9, no 1). By the end of 2022, we published under CC BY-ND license 4.0 (https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nd/4.0/)

Focus and Scope

The journal's profile is mainly in line with international microeconomics (international business, entrepreneurship) and international macroeconomics (global economy, economic integration, international finance). The journal accepts articles from the following research areas:

1. International business (internationalisation of enterprises; international entrepreneurship; international marketing; international management; internationalisation strategies; international competitiveness of enterprises; transnational corporations; international microeconomics).

2. International economics (challenges of the contemporary global economy; international comparisons; foreign direct investments; globalisation, regionalisation and semi-globalisation; innovation of global economy; international macroeconomy, traditional and modern forms of international trade; export competitiveness; trade policy; global value chain; internationalisation of industries; regional trade agreements; protectionism and liberalisation of international trade, global crisis; debt crisis; capital flows; integration and disintegration in the European Union; EU and geopolitics; integration processes in the global economy).

3. Entrepreneurship (strategic entrepreneurship, international entrepreneurship, innovation, entrepreneurship education).

WE DON'T PUBLISH ARTICLES BEYOND THESE TOPICS ANY MORE!
We proritize any articiles on various aspects of international entreprenership! 

Indexing and abstracting

"International Entrepreneurship Review" (IER) is indexed in the following databases:

 

Submission statistics

Average time for initial manuscript evaluation: 30 days
Average time for reviewing manuscripts: 60 days
Average time an article is published: 90-180 days

 

2025

published articles: 33

rejection rate (%): 71%

  1. of authors (co-authors): 77 (100%)

            incl. foreign authors: 18

           incl. domestic (country-based) authors: 59 of which local (EIC university-based) authors: 23

Countries of origin of authors in 2025: France, Indonesia, Jordan, Kyrgyzstan, Latvia, Nepal, New Zealand, Nigeria, Poland, Slovakia, Turkey, Ukraine, United States.

number of reviewers: 65   (100%)

            incl. foreign reviewers: 44 (68%)

            incl. domestic reviewers:  21 (32%)

2024

published articles: 34

rejection rate (%): 45%

of authors (co-authors): 73 (100%)

            incl. foreign authors: 13 (18%)

           incl. domestic (country-based) authors: 60 (82%) of which local (EIC university-based) authors: 25 (34%)

Countries of origins of authors in 2024: 

           Poland
           Germany
           Columbia
           France
           Hungary
           Ghana
           Turkey
           Spain
           Indonesia

number of reviewers:  90 (100%)

            incl. foreign reviewers:  61%

            incl. domestic reviewers:   39%

2023

published articles: 28

rejection rate (%): 50%

of authors (co-authors): 71 (100%)

            incl. foreign authors: 3 (4%)

           incl. domestic (country-based) authors: 68 (96%) of which local (EIC university-based) authors: 25 (35%)

Countries of origins of authors in 2023: 

            Germany: 1
            Malta: 1
            Iceland: 1
            Poland: 68
           

number of reviewers:  109 (100%)

            incl. foreign reviewers:  45%

            incl. domestic reviewers:   55%

 

2022

published articles: 24

rejection rate (%): 53%

of authors (co-authors): 47 (100%)

            incl. foreign authors: 43%

           incl. domestic (country-based) authors: 57% of which local (EIC university-based) authors: 63%

Countries of origins of authors in 2022: 

            Czechia: 1
            France: 1
            Germany: 1
            Marocco: 1
            Nigeria: 8
            Poland: 27
            South Africa: 6
            Spain: 1
            Viet Nam: 1

number of reviewers:  57 (100%)

            incl. foreign reviewers:  40%

            incl. domestic reviewers:   60%

 

2021

published articles: 25

rejection rate (%): 49%

no. of authors (co-authors): 49 (100%)

            incl. foreign authors: 65%

           incl. domestic (country-based) authors: 35%  of which local (EIC university-based) authors: 16%

Countries of origins of authors in 2021: 

          Cyprus: 2
          Germany: 2
          Hungary: 1
          Indonesia: 2
          Israel: 1
          Jordan: 1
          Kazakhstan: 4
          Nigeria: 7
          Oman: 1
          Poland: 17
          South Africa: 7
          United Arab Emirates: 2
          Vietnam: 2

number of reviewers:   (100%)

            incl. foreign reviewers:  51%

            incl. domestic reviewers:   49%

 

2020

published articles: 25

rejection rate (%): 36%

no. of authors (co-authors):  35 (100%)

            incl. foreign authors: 37%

           incl. domestic (country-based) authors: 22%  of which local (EIC university-based) authors: %

Countries of origins of authors in 2020: 

           China: 2
           Germany: 1
           Nigeria: 1
           Poland: 22
           Spain: 2
           Taiwan: 2

number of reviewers:  42 (100%)

            incl. foreign reviewers:  48%

            incl. domestic reviewers:   52 %

 

Scoring

The Ministry of Education and Science has awarded 100 points to International Entrepreneurship Review (2020 - ongoing).

Sponsors

The journal "International Entrepreneurship Review" was included in the ministerial programme "Development of Scientific Journals" (RCN) for the years 2022-2024.
Pursuant to Agreement No. RCN/SP/0251/ 2021/11 for the implementation of project No. RCN/SP/0251/2021/12 concluded between the State Treasury – Minister of Education and Science and the Krakow University of Economics on 9 December 2022, the journal received funding in the amount of PLN 80,000.00 (financing group II).

The funds obtained under the ministerial programme were allocated to the implementation of main tasks aimed at improving the quality and impact of the journal in the scientific community in Poland and abroad.

 

The journal "International Entrepreneurship Review" was included in the ministerial programme "Support for Scientific Journals" (WCN) for the years 2019-2020 and is placed on the list of 500 Polish journals distinguished for their quality (the list includes only 27 journals in the field of economic sciences in total, i.e. economy and finance as well as management and quality sciences).