Competition and Change

Aims & Scope

Competition and Change is an international peer-reviewed journal, uniquely featuring theoretical, empirical and policy oriented research that aims to develop an understanding of the causes and consequences of competition and change with respect to globalization, financialization and broader conceptualizations of restructuring capitalist relations.

The journal is inter-disciplinary and welcomes contributions from a wide range of social science disciplines, including heterodox economics, political economy, critical research on work, management and organization, economic geography, sociology, development studies and international relations.

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Metrics & Ranking

Impact Factor

Year	Value
2025	3.4
2024	3.00

SJR (SCImago Journal Rank)

Year	Value
2024	2.054

Quartile

Year	Value
2024	Q1

h-index

Year	Value
2024	33

Journal Rank

Year	Value
2024	1365

Journal Citation Indicator

Year	Value
2024	706

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Abstracting & Indexing

Journal is indexed in leading academic databases, ensuring global visibility and accessibility of our peer-reviewed research.

• Scopus
• Google Scholar
• Web of Science

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Subjects & Keywords

Journal’s research areas, covering key disciplines and specialized sub-topics in Business, Management and Accounting, designed to support cutting-edge academic discovery.

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Most Cited Articles

The Most Cited Articles section features the journal's most impactful research, based on citation counts. These articles have been referenced frequently by other researchers, indicating their significant contribution to their respective fields.

• Global Capitalism and Commodity Chains: Looking Back, Going Forward

  Citation: 545

  Authors: Jennifer

• Financialization and housing: Between globalization and Varieties of Capitalism

  Citation: 290

  Authors: Rodrigo, Manuel B

• Between a rock and a hard place: Freedom, flexibility, precarity and vulnerability in the gig economy in Africa

  Citation: 220

  Authors: Mohammad Amir, Mark

• State capitalism(s) redux? Theories, tensions, controversies

  Citation: 192

  Authors: Ilias, Adam D

• Social Upgrading and Labour in Global Production Networks: A Critique and an Alternative Conception

  Citation: 170

  Authors: Ben

• Global Commodity Chains: New Forms of Coordination and Control among Nations and Firms in International Industries

  Citation: 169

  Authors: Gary

• Peripheral Financialization and Vulnerability to Crisis: A Regulationist Perspective

  Citation: 149

  Authors: Joachim, Johannes, Bernhard, Rudy

• Review and Positions: Global Production Networks and Labour

  Citation: 147

  Authors: Al, Andrew, Susan

• Digital labour platforms and new forms of flexible work in developing countries: Algorithmic management of work and workers

  Citation: 142

  Authors: Uma, Marianne

• ‘All data is credit data’: Constituting the unbanked

  Citation: 134

  Authors: Rob

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