International Business Research was founded in 1980 and is a bimonthly financial and policy research journal sponsored by Shanghai University of International Business and Economics. It is publicly distributed both domestically and internationally and has published 256 issues to date. There are now columns on international economics and trade, international economic law, free trade zone research, international finance and investment, digital economy and trade, national economy and world economy, and analysis of economic and trade cases.
International Business Research is an expanded source journal of CSSCI (2023-2024), a national Chinese core journal, a RCCSE Chinese core academic journal, and an expanded journal of Chinese humanities and social sciences.