Bucharest University of Economic Studies Faculty of Business

Bucharest University of Economic Studies Faculty of Business and Tourism ROMANIA AMFITEATRU ECONOMIC JOURNAL Prof. univ. dr. Vasile Dinu, Editor-in-chief Amfiteatru Economic Journal Bucharest University of Economic Studies The Academy of Romanian Scientists 1

AMFITEATRU ECONOMIC www. amfiteatrueconomic. ro 2

Affiliation – Bucharest University of Economic Studies, Faculty of Business and Tourism, Romania Publishing House – ASE București Issuing – print and online ISSN print 1582 -9146; ISSN online 2247 -9104 (February, May, August and November) Frequency of publication – 4 numbers per year q q Year of first issue – 1999 Number of published journals = 70 Indexed and quoted Clarivate Analitycs Web of Science since 2008 Indexed in Scopus Database since 2008 Amfiteatru Economic is an academic journal that allows free access, being available online to readers without financial, legal or technical barriers (no publication fees), based on the principle of maintaining the integrity of the content of the article. 3

History Period of pioneering 1999 -2005 Period of reorganization 2006 -2008 Period of development 2008 – until present times (2020) 4 4

Scientometric indicators 2020 Clarivate Analytics Web of Science Journal Amfiteatru Economic Total citations = 591 Impact 5 year Factor (IF) IF 1, 625 Article Influence Score 1, 036 0, 056 Quartile H index Q 2 21 Scopus Database Journal Amfiteatru Economic Cite. Score SNIP SJR 1, 8 0, 532 0, 276 Quartile H index Q 2 18 5

Evolution of average values for the Hirsch index (H index) for members within the editorial board between 2017 and 2019 2018 2017 Web of Science 6, 44 5, 04 4, 70 Scopus 6, 84 5, 56 5, 06 Google Scholar 13, 58 10, 95 9, 90 6 6

Indexing in prestigious international databases n scientific. thomsonreuters. com/mjl/ (since 2008), domains of Economics, Business and Management Ø Social Sciences Citation Index® Ø Social Scisearch® Ø Journal Citation Reports/Social Sciences Edition n n n EBSCO Publishing (since 2008); Elsevier B. V. Bibliographic Databases (SCOPUS) (since 2008), for the domain Economics, Econometrics and Finance; Pro. Quest LLC (since 2008); Directory of Open Access Journals (DOAJ) (since 2008), domains Social Sciences: Economic theory and Social Sciences: Commerce; Journal of Economic Literature (Econ. Lit) (since 2008); Research Papers in Economics (Re. PEc) (since 2004); Central and Eastern European Online Library (CEEOL) (since 2017). 7 7

Amfiteatru international conferences q. BASIQ Conference, Bucharest University of Economic Studies, Bucharest, June 2015, Romania q BASIQ Conference, University Allensbach, Konstanz, June 2016, Germany q BASIQ Conference, Pädagogische Hochschule Steiermark, Graz, June 2017, Austria q BASIQ Conference, University of Heidelberg, June 2018, Germany q BASIQ Conference, Universitatea Aldo Moro, Bari, June 2019, Italy q BASIQ Conference, University of Messina, June 2020, Italy (online) 8 8

Meetings with readers/authors q University of Pitești, November, 2012 q University Ștefan cel Mare of Suceava, April, 2013 q University Valahia of Târgoviște, May, 2014 q University of Craiova, June, 2014 q University of Szczecin, Poland, May, 2016 q University of Debrecen, Hungary, April, 2018 q Economic University of Katowice, Poland - May 2018 q University Spiru Haret of Bucharest, December 2018 q University „Dunărea de Jos” Galați, April 2019 9

Editorial process 1. The Journal has pre-established topics for each number. The topics are published on the site together with a draft and the deadline for receiving manuscripts. 2. At the end of the deadline, the eligibility activity takes place according to five criteria: framing the article within the topics of that issue, whether the article has research, checking the originality, checking the correctness of the English language, whether the Template has been respected and whether the bibliography is written correctly. Eligibility lasts 30 days. 3. Eligible articles are subject to the double blind peer review process. The activity lasts 45 days. After the peer review the results are shared with the authors. 4. Articles that have passed the peer review are distributed to the editors of the journal and work with the authors begins in order to bring the article to the best publishable form. This activity lasts between 10 -12 days. 5. The technical editing activity follows carried out by the staff of the journal’s secretariat. 6. The journal is sent to the ASE Publishing House, where a check of the typewriting takes place and the printing approval is given, after which the journal goes to the printing house. 7. Posting the journal on the journal’s website. 10

In 2019 Amfiteatru Economic journal accomplished 20 years since its first issue and 11 years since being indexed in Web of Science. With this opportunity a book was elaborated about the journal, in Romanian and in English, a unique book in the history of the Bucharest University of Economics. Amfiteatru Economic – Year XX A unique book Editors Vasile DINU Laurențiu TĂCHICIU 11