Revista de Gestão: Scopus Indexing, Metrics & Author Guide

Quick Answer: What Is Revista de Gestão?

Revista de Gestão, commonly identified as REGE, is an academic management journal owned by the Universidade de São Paulo and published by Emerald Publishing. Emerald describes it as a generalist journal covering all fields of management and as an outlet intended to disseminate research and ideas useful to both scholars and practitioners.

For visibility, Emerald lists REGE in Scopus, ESCI and DOAJ, among other services. The supplied source record identifies Scopus Source ID 21101071063. Emerald currently reports a 2025 CiteScore of 6.3 and a 2025 Journal Impact Factor of 2.1. These are reporting-year metrics, not permanent attributes, so they should be reconfirmed when an institution applies a specific threshold.

Researchers in management, business and related applied social-science fields may consider REGE when the manuscript makes an original and well-supported contribution within its scope. Before submission, check the latest author guidelines, manuscript category, English-language requirement, word limit, title length, ORCID details and ScholarOne submission fields.

Key Takeaways

• Publisher and owner: Emerald Publishing publishes REGE on behalf of the Universidade de São Paulo, which owns the journal.
• Scope: broad management coverage spanning strategy, marketing, finance, HR, operations, technology, public administration, economics and sustainability.
• Indexing: Emerald lists Scopus, ESCI and DOAJ; the supplied Scopus Source ID is 21101071063.
• 2025 metrics: Emerald reports CiteScore 6.3 and Journal Impact Factor 2.1; it also displays a 2026 CiteScore Tracker, which is provisional.
• Open access: Diamond Open Access under CC BY 4.0, with no APC or submission charge currently stated for authors.
• Review: double-blind peer review after initial editorial screening, normally with at least two external reviewers.
• 2026 language rule: original manuscripts must be submitted only in English from 1 January 2026.
• Core format rules: maximum 7,000 words, title no longer than eight words, structured abstract up to 250 words, and up to 12 keywords.

Journal Information at a Glance

The table separates stable identity details from metrics and policies that should be rechecked before submission.

What This Page Covers

• REGE’s aims, management scope and likely manuscript fit
• Scopus, ESCI and other indexing information
• 2025 citation metrics and how to interpret them cautiously
• accepted manuscript classifications and recent topic signals
• word count, title, abstract, keyword, ORCID and file requirements
• peer review, stated decision statistics and ethical policies
• Diamond Open Access, licensing and author charges
• a practical pre-submission checklist and ethical Contentxprtz support

Methodology and Sources

This profile prioritises the official Emerald Revista de Gestão page, its author guidelines, transparency statement and indexing/metrics information. The journal identity is cross-checked against the supplied Scopus source record, which gives Source ID 21101071063 and print ISSN 1809-2276; the Scopus source profile is the appropriate place to reconfirm current Scopus status.

Journal metrics, indexing coverage, editorial roles, fees and submission instructions are time-sensitive. The facts below reflect information available on the official journal page in August 2026. Where an official value was not surfaced—such as a current SJR, SNIP or Scopus quartile—this guide says to verify it rather than importing a third-party estimate.

Revista de Gestão Aims, Scope and Scholarly Position

REGE positions itself as a generalist academic management journal. Its official scope is intentionally expansive: general management, information technology, marketing, finance, human resources, production and operations management, business strategy, business economics, public administration, science and technology management and sustainability are all named areas.

The journal is published for the management research community by Emerald on behalf of USP’s School of Economics, Business and Accounting. Its stated purpose is to disseminate research and ideas that add value to scholars and practitioners, while welcoming papers across subjects and geographical origins. The selection emphasis described by the journal includes originality, quality and creativity.

Editorial interpretation: this breadth creates room for multidisciplinary business research, but a submission should still make its management contribution explicit. A technically strong information-systems paper, for example, is more likely to fit when it explains consequences for managerial decisions, organisational processes, business models or performance rather than treating the technology as an isolated engineering problem.

Likewise, a sustainability paper should connect environmental or social questions to management theory, organisational behaviour, strategy, operations, governance or managerial practice. A public-policy study may fit when public administration or management is central; a paper focused primarily on constitutional law, clinical outcomes or pure computer science may sit outside REGE’s core readership unless a substantive management contribution is demonstrated.

Subject Areas and Research Topics That May Fit

Officially stated areas include the management fields listed above. Based on that scope and the themes visible in recent journal content, potentially relevant manuscript topics can include:

• strategic management, competitive advantage and business-model innovation
• digital transformation, information systems and organisational technology adoption
• marketing strategy, consumer behaviour and market analytics
• corporate finance, financial decision-making and forecasting applications
• human resource management, employee engagement, autonomy and work performance
• entrepreneurship, entrepreneurial intention and innovation ecosystems
• production, operations, supply chains and service processes
• technology and innovation management, including responsible use of generative AI
• business economics and managerial responses to economic uncertainty
• public administration, governance and organisational performance
• sustainability, responsible management and organisational transition
• management research with Brazilian, Latin American or wider international contexts

These examples are not a closed official topic list. A strong fit decision should compare the manuscript’s research question, theory, method and audience with several recent REGE articles rather than relying on topic labels alone.

Scopus Indexing and Other Database Visibility

Emerald currently lists Revista de Gestão in Scopus. The supplied source record identifies Scopus Source ID 21101071063, so authors can use that identifier to distinguish REGE from other journals with similar Portuguese titles. This matters because journal-name similarity can lead to incorrect assumptions about metrics or indexing.

Emerald also lists the journal in the Emerging Sources Citation Index (ESCI) and Directory of Open Access Journals (DOAJ), alongside services including ABI/INFORM/ProQuest collections, EBSCO Discovery Service, EconBiz, Latindex, REDALYC, ROAD, SPELL, Summon and WorldCat.

For PhD or university requirements, “indexed in Scopus” is only one part of the decision. Some institutions specify an active Scopus source, a particular quartile, a JCR category, a minimum Impact Factor, or a list approved by the institution. Check the exact rule that applies to your programme and verify the journal in the current database on the date of submission.

Current Metrics: CiteScore, Impact Factor and Timing Indicators

On its official page, Emerald reports a 2025 CiteScore of 6.3 and a 2025 Journal Impact Factor of 2.1; it also displays a 2025 five-year Impact Factor of 2.1. A 2026 CiteScore Tracker of 4.1 is also shown, but a tracker is an interim indicator updated during the year, not the final 2026 CiteScore.

SJR, SNIP and Scopus quartile values are useful only when tied to a specific reporting year and category. Because the official Emerald page consulted here does not surface those values, this guide does not substitute third-party numbers. Researchers who need quartile evidence should consult the current Scopus source details and, where relevant, the current SCImago record.

Article Types and Recent Research Signals

The author guidelines ask submitting authors to classify a manuscript in ScholarOne. Categories currently described include Research paper, Viewpoint, Technical paper, Conceptual paper, Literature review and General review. The page also describes a ThinkBox essay-style format built around critical analysis and theoretical grounding; that format is invitation only.

Recent material highlighted by Emerald illustrates the breadth of management work represented: digital transformation and stakeholder engagement in financial-industry business models; entrepreneurial intention and psychological/cognitive factors; software solutions in administrative routines; job autonomy and engagement; and machine-learning approaches to financial forecasting and trading profitability. The 2025 Literati recognition also highlighted the machine-learning/financial forecasting study.

These examples are signals, not a prescription. A manuscript should not imitate a recent title simply because it was published. Instead, use recent articles to test whether the journal regularly engages with your theory, empirical context, methodological approach and type of managerial contribution.

Manuscript Requirements Authors Need to Check

For 2026 submissions, the most consequential rule is language: Emerald states that original manuscripts submitted from 1 January 2026 must be exclusively in English. The current author instructions also specify the following core requirements.

Authors should use the live author guidelines as the final authority because file specifications, declarations and editorial requirements can change.

Submission Process: From Preflight to ScholarOne

Submissions are handled through ScholarOne Manuscripts. Emerald may first present Paperpal Preflight, an automated check against author guidelines; authors can use or bypass that step and proceed to ScholarOne.

1. Create or sign in to the REGE ScholarOne account.
2. Open the Author Centre and begin a new manuscript submission.
3. Select the appropriate article classification rather than choosing a category for perceived strategic advantage.
4. Enter all authors in the correct order and ensure every author’s ORCID is captured.
5. Complete the CRediT contribution information and other requested declarations.
6. Upload the manuscript and required files, completing every submission field.
7. Preview the generated proof carefully for missing content, broken figures or metadata errors.
8. Submit only after the manuscript, title, abstract, keywords, author details and declarations agree across the uploaded file and ScholarOne fields.

As a practical publication-readiness step, keep a clean final manuscript, a separate response-ready version with editable figures/tables, complete source files and a record of ethics approvals, funding statements and data-availability information where relevant.

Peer Review, Editorial Screening and Timelines

The journal’s transparency statement specifies a double-blind peer-review model. Every paper receives an initial editorial assessment. If judged suitable for further consideration, it is reviewed by a minimum of two external reviewers. Final responsibility for the editorial decision rests with the Editor-in-Chief.

Emerald currently reports a time to first decision of 46 days based on submissions from 1 April 2024 through 31 March 2025. It also reports an 8.3% acceptance rate for that same submissions period. A separate acceptance-to-publication figure of 237 days is displayed as historical data last updated in July 2024.

These statistics describe past cohorts, not a service-level guarantee. An individual paper can move faster or slower because of scope screening, reviewer availability, revision rounds, author response time, ethical checks, production complexity and editorial workload. Do not plan a thesis deadline on the assumption that the historical average will apply to one submission.

Open Access, Copyright and Publication Fees

REGE is a Diamond Open Access journal. Emerald states that authors are not currently charged an article processing charge or a submission fee. Articles are published under the Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 (CC BY 4.0) licence.

Under that licence, authors retain copyright while granting Emerald a licence to publish the work and identify itself as the original publisher. Others may share and adapt the work, including commercially, provided appropriate attribution is given and changes are identified. Accepted authors complete the CC BY licence through ScholarOne.

This publication model is important for researchers with limited APC funding because access for readers does not depend on an author-side fee. Even so, fee arrangements can change; reconfirm the current author-fee section before committing to a submission.

Publication Ethics and Author Responsibilities

Emerald’s transparency information states that its journals follow the principles of the Committee on Publication Ethics (COPE). REGE expects authors to be accountable for the accuracy and integrity of their work, include genuine contributors as authors, exclude non-contributors from authorship and disclose relevant conflicts of interest.

Where research involves human participants, authors are expected to consider whether ethics approval and informed consent are required and to include appropriate information in the submission. Emerald also states that large language models cannot be credited as authors because they cannot take responsibility for the work. The editor may use iThenticate to assess originality.

Good preparation therefore goes beyond grammar. Verify every reference, avoid fabricated or unverifiable citations, document permissions, retain underlying research records, describe methods transparently and disclose any use of tools when required by journal or institutional policy.

Is Revista de Gestão a Good Fit for Your Manuscript?

REGE may be a credible candidate when your paper sits clearly within management and can communicate a contribution relevant beyond one local operational problem. Use this journal-fit test before investing time in formatting.

• Scope fit: Is the central research question genuinely managerial, organisational, strategic, economic or administrative?
• Contribution fit: Does the manuscript add an original theoretical, empirical, conceptual, technical or review-based contribution rather than merely describing a setting?
• Audience fit: Would scholars and practitioners in management learn something transferable from the work?
• Evidence fit: Are methods, data, analysis and limitations strong enough to support the claims?
• Article-type fit: Does the manuscript naturally match one of the journal’s current classifications?
• Language fit: Is the paper ready for an English-only submission in 2026?
• Institutional fit: Does the journal’s current Scopus/JCR status meet your university, funder or doctoral requirements?

A broad management scope can be attractive, but it can also make editorial screening demanding: the paper needs a clear reason for a general management readership to care.

Common Reasons a Manuscript May Be Unsuitable

The journal does not publish a simple public checklist of desk-rejection reasons, so the points below are general publication-readiness guidance informed by the stated scope and author rules, not a claim about a specific editorial decision.

• The subject is outside management or the management contribution is only incidental.
• The paper is primarily descriptive and does not establish originality, quality or a meaningful contribution.
• The research question and literature review do not connect clearly to the manuscript’s method and conclusions.
• The manuscript category is misclassified—for example, a narrative opinion piece presented as empirical research.
• The paper exceeds the 7,000-word calculation or ignores the eight-word title limit.
• The structured abstract, keywords, ORCID records or contribution statements are incomplete.
• The English is difficult enough to obscure methods, argumentation or findings.
• Citations are inaccurate, incomplete, fabricated or not matched to the claims they support.
• Human-participant ethics, consent, conflicts of interest or other research-integrity matters are insufficiently documented.

How to Prepare a Stronger REGE-Aligned Manuscript

Start with journal fit, not formatting. Read several recent REGE papers close to your topic and identify how they frame the management problem, position prior literature, describe methods and express contribution. Then make the manuscript’s own contribution explicit in the title, abstract, introduction and conclusion without overstating novelty.

For empirical work, align the research question, theory, measures, sampling, analysis and interpretation. For conceptual or review work, make the selection logic, conceptual framework and value added transparent. For applied or technology-oriented research, explain the managerial implications rather than assuming that technical novelty alone will interest a management readership.

Before submission, run a consistency audit: every table should be discussed in the text; every in-text citation should appear in the reference list; every reference-list item should be cited; terminology should remain consistent; claims should match the evidence; limitations should be candid; and the abstract should accurately reflect the final manuscript rather than an earlier draft.

How to Respond if Reviewers Request Revisions

If a revision is invited, treat the response letter as an evidence trail. Copy each reviewer comment, respond underneath it, and state exactly what changed and where. When you disagree, explain the reasoning respectfully and support it with evidence rather than dismissing the request.

Do not claim that a change was made if the manuscript does not contain it. Check that revised tables, figures, references and supplementary files agree with the response. A careful point-by-point reply can reduce avoidable confusion, but it cannot guarantee acceptance because the editor and reviewers remain responsible for the final assessment.

How Contentxprtz Can Support Publication Readiness

Contentxprtz can support authors preparing for REGE through ethical manuscript assistance rather than promises about editorial outcomes. Depending on the manuscript, this may include academic editing, English-language polishing, journal formatting, reference consistency checks, manuscript assessment, cover-letter editing, response-to-reviewer editing and submission-readiness review.

The useful boundary is clear: professional support can improve clarity, structure, compliance and presentation, but it should not fabricate data, invent references, conceal authorship, manufacture peer-review responses or guarantee publication. The researcher remains responsible for the study, its evidence, its interpretations and the final submission.

Pre-Submission Checklist for Revista de Gestão

• Confirm the manuscript’s central contribution falls within management.
• Verify current Scopus status and any quartile/metric rule required by your institution.
• Use English for original manuscripts submitted in 2026.
• Keep the article within the current 7,000-word calculation and the title within eight words.
• Prepare the structured abstract and no more than 12 keywords.
• Confirm every author’s name, order, ORCID and CRediT contribution.
• Check ethics approval, consent, conflicts, funding and data statements where relevant.
• Reconcile all references and citations and verify DOIs/metadata from authoritative records.
• Upload accepted file types and inspect the ScholarOne-generated proof before final submission.
• Save the exact author-guideline version/date used for your final formatting check.

Conclusion: Who Should Consider Revista de Gestão?

Revista de Gestão is most relevant to researchers whose work makes a clear contribution to management across areas such as strategy, marketing, finance, HR, operations, information technology, innovation, public administration, business economics or sustainability. Its current Scopus and ESCI visibility, Diamond Open Access model, broad management scope and stated 2025 metrics may make it attractive to authors seeking an internationally discoverable management outlet.

The decision should still be manuscript-led. Confirm scope against recent papers, verify current database status and metrics, follow the 2026 English-language rule and current author instructions, and prepare the submission carefully. Strong editing and publication-readiness support can improve communication and compliance, but neither Contentxprtz nor any third-party service can guarantee editorial acceptance or publication.