Journal of Entrepreneurship and Business Innovation

ISSN 2332-8851 · Open access · Double-anonymous peer review · Annual volume, closed each December

Journal of Entrepreneurship and Business Innovation (JEBI) is an international, peer-reviewed, open access journal published by Macrothink Institute. The journal was published semi-annually from 2015 to 2024 and has been published annually since 2025, with the volume closed each December. It publishes research on how new ventures are created, financed and scaled, and on the innovation and business-model choices through which firms grow. Its unit of analysis is the venture or the entrepreneur.

The journal is organised around six themes:

• Entrepreneurial process and new venture creation
• Small business growth, performance and survival
• Innovation, technology and business-model change
• Entrepreneurial finance and markets for new ventures
• Entrepreneurial strategy and internationalisation
• Entrepreneurship policy, ecosystems and support institutions

Manuscripts should identify the venture population studied and the data and method used. General management studies, macro-economic policy analysis and descriptive business cases without an explicit entrepreneurial question fall outside the journal's scope. The full scope, accepted article types and submission guidelines are set out on the About page.

Key Facts

• Peer review: double-anonymous, with at least two independent external reviewers for each manuscript sent for review
• First decision: four to ten weeks from submission
• Frequency: annual; one volume per year (Volume 13 covers 2026)
• Publication mode: continuous publication; articles are added to the annual volume as they are ready, and a cumulative Table of Contents is issued in December
• Article processing charge: USD 100, payable only after acceptance. No submission fee. Waivers for editorial members, reviewers, and authors in low and lower-middle-income economies
• Published since: 2014
• Publication history: a single December issue in 2014; semi-annual, June and December, from 2015 to 2024; one annual volume since 2025
• Copyright and licence: authors retain copyright; articles are published open access under a Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International licence (CC BY 4.0)
• Publication ethics: the journal follows COPE guidelines. Policies on plagiarism, retraction, correction and expression of concern are available on the Ethics page
• Archiving: preserved in LOCKSS and deposited with the National Library of Australia

Indexing and listing

• Indexed in: AcademicKeys, Infobase Index, Open Academic Journals Index (OAJI), RePEc, Scilit, WorldCat
• Listed in: Excellence in Research for Australia (ERA) 2018 Journal List
• Open access policy registered in: Open Policy Finder (formerly Sherpa/Romeo)
• Archiving service: LOCKSS

DOI

All articles are registered with Crossref. Journal DOI prefix: 10.5296. Article DOIs follow the pattern 10.5296/jebi.vXXiY.ZZZZZ. Example: https://doi.org/10.5296/jebi.v12i1.23244

Issues

• Current issue: Vol. 13, No. 1 (2026)
• All issues: 2014-2026

Paper selection and publication process

1. Within one to two working days of receipt, the editorial office sends an acknowledgement to the corresponding author. If no acknowledgement arrives, please contact the editor, as the submission may not have reached us.
2. Each manuscript sent for review is assessed under a double-anonymous model by at least two independent external referees. Where reports conflict, further expert opinion is sought. The first decision is normally issued four to ten weeks after submission.
3. The decision, together with the referees' comments where applicable, is sent to the corresponding author by e-mail.
4. Authors of accepted manuscripts revise their paper and pay the article processing charge of USD 100 (formatting and hosting). Payment is requested only after acceptance. Waiver requests are handled before an invoice is issued.
5. Articles are published online in PDF and are free of charge to readers.

Plagiarism screening. Every submission is screened with iThenticate before it is sent for review. Reports above the journal threshold are returned to the authors for revision before peer review begins. Referees and editors also flag suspected plagiarism, duplicate publication and manipulated citations encountered during review. The journal applies a zero-tolerance policy on plagiarism.