9th Contemporary Issues in Economics, Business and Management (EBM)
University of Kragujevac, Faculty of Economics and Business · in person · Official site ↗
Trust
Major society or long-running conference. Indexing and committee verified.
Good conference, but indexing or review rigour only partly verified.
- !Committee international — 10 countries, but 40 of 56 program committee members Serbian (71%); organizing committee all Kragujevac
- !Indexing verified — Proceedings not in WoS/Scopus (ProQuest only, EBM 2022)
- ✓Archive history — Past proceedings online (2014, 2016, 2020...)
- ✓Committee listed — ~56-member program committee listed
- ✓Domain age — ekf.rs (faculty domain)
- ✓Double blind — Double-blind peer-review process stated
- ✓Indexing specific — No inflated indexing claims; ISBN given
- ✓Known mill — No mill indicators
- ✓Organizer reputable — Public university
- ✓Past editions — 9th edition, biennial since 2010
✕Failed !Warning ?Not verified ✓Passed
Promotion (NN 42/2026)
0.75 points per paper (≤ 4 authors)
- — International committee from 10 countries: a2.
- — Proceedings papers can supply at most 1/3 of the required minimum points.
- — Max 1 paper per author per proceedings volume.
Deadlines & fees
- Abstract
- 15-10-2026
- Full paper
- 15-11-2026
- Notification
- 30-11-2026
- Registration
- 15-11-2026
| presenter | early | €100 | until 15-10-2026 · International participants |
| presenter | late | €150 | · International participants, from 16 Oct |
| student | early | €50 | until 15-10-2026 · International doctoral students |
| student | late | €70 | · International doctoral students |
Indexing
What is trust?
Trust is ANA's verdict on whether a conference is a real scientific event rather than a fee-collecting mill. It says nothing about prestige or promotion points; those are shown separately.
| Established | 9–10 | Major society or long-running conference. Indexing and committee verified. |
| Trusted | 7–8 | Legitimate. Long history and real committee; small gaps, e.g. next year's fees not out yet. |
| Plausible | 5–6 | Probably legitimate, but key claims (indexing, review, committee) are only partly verified. |
| Doubtful | 3–4 | Several checks failed or couldn't be verified. Check it yourself before submitting. |
| Avoid | 1–2 | Matches a known conference mill or has serious red flags. |
How it's scored: every conference starts at 3. Points are added for a listed committee, an international committee, 3+ past editions, a domain and archive several years old, and a university or society organiser. Points are taken off for vague indexing ("major databases"), an indexing claim that turns out false, review faster than 7 days, a brand-new domain, missing committees, or many unrelated conferences on one site. A known conference mill is capped at 2.
Quality is a separate 1–5 score for whether it's worth presenting there: the conference's tier (flagship, mid, regional), verified WoS/Scopus indexing, double-blind review, a reputable organiser and an international committee. A small regional conference can be fully trusted and still Modest.
| Top | 5/5 | Flagship conference: verified indexing or a major society, rigorous review. |
| High | 4/5 | Strong international conference with solid review and a reputable host. |
| Mid | 3/5 | Good conference, but indexing or review rigour only partly verified. |
| Modest | 2/5 | Real but small or regional, little verified indexing. Fine for networking and a2/a3 points. |
| Low | 1/5 | Real, but little evidence of selectivity or reach. |
Tracks: Globalization and Regionalization; Accounting and Business Finance; Key Issues in Management and Marketing; Applied Informatics and Quantitative Methods. Abstract acceptance comes 2026-10-25. The early-fee date is listed as 15 Oct on the fees page and 15 Nov on the dates page; this file uses 15 Oct for the fee. Selected papers are invited to a special issue of Economic Horizons and to Our Economy (Maribor). There are an AOM workshop and a student conference. The program committee has about 56 members, mostly from Kragujevac, across RS, PL, UA, IT, AE, SI, HR, AT, MK and BA. Fees for Serbian participants are in RSD (12,000/18,000).