History of  Establishment the Journal

 In 1998, the Faculty of Economics, Ivane Javakhishvili Tbilisi State University founded an independent international peer-reviewed and refereed practical scientific journal "Social Economy", the first issue of which was published in January 1999 and it was published permanently every two months. Prominent scientists from Georgia and foreign countries were invited to the editorial board. The journal was distinguished by its original columns, articles and reviews dedicated to the acute and current economic problems of the country were published, and in a few years the journal gained popularity not only in Georgia - it also became internationally referred and reviewed. (The journal was sent to many other countries). In 2005, the editor-in-chief of the journal, Prof. Revaz Gogokhia received a letter of thanks from the head of the Library of Congress for his active cooperation with them.

In 2008, based on the journal "Social Economy", the international peer-reviewed and refereed journal "Economy and Business" was established at the Faculty of Economics and Business, Ivane Javakhishvili Tbilisi State University. The editorial board was renewed. It was filled with new Georgian and foreign professional scientific economists, rubrics were improved and perfected, format and style were changed and refined. The journal switched to university funding.

Abaut the Journal “Economics and Business”

The Main Mission of the journal is to provide to wide society and economic management state structures the accumulated knowledge and advanced practical experience in the fields of Economic and Business, what will help to promote the economic and social development of the country.

The Priorities of the journal is to bring out to a wide range of scientific audiences the results of the works, done by doctoral students in the process of working on dissertation.
The Important Task is to offer the professors and teachers scientific products in the process of creation and renewal of educational programs, social innovations and business; in the implementing of professional economists standards in society. To accomplish the abovementioned tasks, in the journal are published articles as local, so foreign authors in Georgian and English languages in the History of Theoretical Economics and Economic Doctrines, Economic Policy, Macro and Micro Economics, Business and Management, about actual theoretical and practical issues, reviews on newly published monographs and textbooks.
  In January 2019, the journal "Economy and Business" was included in the ERIHPLUS database, in the month of May 2019 in the world information base EBSCO, and at the end of the same year in Google Scholar. Since October 2020, it has taken a place in the base of INDEX COPERNICUS INTERNATIONAL.
In 2022, "Economics and Business" journal became a member organization of crossref.org. (Digital Object Identifier assignment index for the journal - DOI) and the journal was assigned the code - DOI 10.52340.
  In the new situation, the journal made significant progress and met certain new requirements of an international scale. The standard of the scientific article to be published in the journal was changed, which was developed and reconciled with the requirements of the Georgian and Chicago style. The main attention of the journal staff and editorial board is focused on its internationalization. It is intended to increase the specific share of foreign language articles in the journal and intensively involve more foreign authors. From 2022 world-renowned scientific economists were added to the members of the foreign editorial board: Gregory N. Mankiw - Harvard University professor (USA), Elizabeth Chacko – the George Washington University professor (USA), Giuseppe De Luca - Milan University professor (Italy) and others.
The journal "Economics and Business" is constantly evolving. It is important that the online version be finalized and edited in accordance with the format and style of international journals.

Editorial staff:

Professor Elguja Mekvabishvili – Editor-in-chief of the journal “Economics and Business” - Refereed and Reviewed International Scientific and Analitical Journal of Ivane Javakhishvili Tbilisi State University.
Doctor of Economic Sciences. 2006 – to present: Professor and chair of the Department of Economic Theory, Faculty of Economics and Business Ivane Javakhishvili Tbilisi State University; 1998-2005 – Member of the Council of the National Bank of Georgia; 1996-2000 – Member of the Economic Council of the President of Georgia; 1992-2005 – Dean of the Faculty of Economics, TSU; He has published over 150 scientific works, including 5 monographs and 11 textbooks; has taken part in 11 international grant projects; he was awarded Iv. Javakhishvili’s premium, Iv. Javakhishvili's medal and Order of Honor.

Revaz Gogokhia – Deputy Editor of the journal “Economics and Business” - Refereed and Reviewed International Scientific and Analitical Journal of Ivane Javakhishvili Tbilisi State University.
Doctor of Economic Sciences. 1989-2008 - Professor at Ivane Javakhishvili Tbilisi State University. 2008-2018 – Editor-in-chief of the journal “Economics and Business, TSU. He has published about 130 scientific works, including monographs and textbooks. 2000-2004 - Head of the Department of General Economic Disciplines of Zugdidi Branch, TSU. 1995-2000 - Head of the Department of International Economic Relations of Sokhumi Branch, TSU. 1991-1992 - First Deputy Minister of Agriculture of Georgia. He was awarded Ivane Javakhishvili medal and the Order of Honor.

Tamaz Zubiashvili – Executive Secretary of the journal “Economics and Business” - Refereed and Reviewed International Scientific and Analitical Journal of Ivane Javakhishvili Tbilisi State University.
Academic Doctor of Economics. 2014 – to present – Associate Professor at the Faculty of Economics and Business, Ivane Javakhishvili Tbilisi State University. He has Published 5 books and more than 60 scientific articles; participated in 30 international scientific conferences; has received various international certificates, awards and grants; has taken part in 10 various scientific exchange programs. He was awarded Tbilisi State University Medal and Medal of Honor from the Government of Georgia

Marie Ukleba - Chief Specialist of the jurnal "Economics and Business"- Refereed and Reviewed International Scientific and Analitical Journal of Ivane Javakhishvili Tbilisi State University. Master Degree of French and English. Journalist. Has received various certificates and grants

Zviad Sigua - Specialist of the jurnal "Economics and Business"- Refereed and Reviewed International Scientific and Analitical Journal of Ivane Javakhishvili Tbilisi State University. PHD student of Ivane Javakhishvili Tbilisi State University.

Abstracting and Indexing information

Refereed and Reviewed International Scientific and Analytical Journal “Economics and business” is indexed in international databases:

• ERIH PLUS
• Google Scholar
• DOI Crossref
• EBSCO
• INDEX COPERNICUS INTERNATIONAL

The authors inform the fans of our journal that since 2023 the journal was granted a DOI code and is located in the world information base of Crossref - the International Foundation for the Registration of Digital Object Identifiers.
Crossref is a for-profit organization that provides open digital infrastructure for the global research, scholarly and publishing community. It is the International DOI Foundation's Digital Object Identifier (DOI) registration agency. It has 19,000 members from 150 countries.
Founded in early 2000, Crossref identifies and links 150 million metadata records of research subjects that are open for unrestricted use.
Crossref is a non-profit association of approximately 19,000 voting members and represents 6,000 communities and publishers, including commercial and non-profit organizations, 6,500 academic and research institutions, research funders, museums, repositories, government agencies and non-governmental organizations. Crossref collects millions of items from different types of content and promotes links to other sites, including journals, books, conference proceedings, research grants, working papers, technical reports and datasets, using open metadata and persistent identifiers.
In September 2012, Crossref was awarded the Association of Scientific and Professional Societies Publishers (ALPSP) Award for Contribution to Scientific Publishing.
The Council of Science Editors (CSE) presented Crossref with an Award of Excellence in May 2009.
We think that this success is another international recognition of "Economy and Business" Journal.

Journal editorial

Another new pleasant news for fans of the journal: recently we received a confirmation that the journal "Economics and Business" is available in the World Information Database EBSCO, which is also one of the largest electronic books library.

This library sells up to 2 billion books a year. It includes social sciences, business, medical, law, state management, etc. directions. This circumstance is one of the best ways to provide Georgian scientists intellectual products to the world wide public.

We would like to share with you a great joy - our team has   received a letter that TSU journal “Economics and  Business”  gained international recognition and is   placed  in  ERIHPLUS database. This means that  articles will be considered as international publishing, which is great support for Georgian scholars. We would also like to thank the university IT specialists - Kakha Mghebrishvili and Levan Jgharkava, who have created the magazine’s website.