17th International Scientific Conference "Business and Management" (BM)
Vilnius Gediminas Technical University (VILNIUS TECH), Faculty of Business Management · in person / online · Official site ↗
Trust
Major society or long-running conference. Indexing and committee verified.
Good conference, but indexing or review rigour only partly verified.
- !Double blind — guidelines2026 and PublicationPolicy state single-blind review, >=2 reviewers; policy also says reviewers do not know authors (contradictory wording)
- !Indexing verified — organizer claim only; CPCI coverage after 2022 and Scopus not independently confirmed
- ✓Archive history — proceedings archive with per-paper DOIs 10.3846/bm.*
- ✓Committee international — members from 21 countries across Europe, Asia, Americas, Africa and Australia; co-organized with universities in Poland and Estonia
- ✓Committee listed — 46-member scientific committee with affiliations listed (Committees2026 page)
- ✓Domain age — vilniustech.lt (formerly vgtu.lt), public university
- ✓Indexing specific — names CPCI with year range 2010-2022 and Scopus
- ✓Known mill — no mill signals; one event per year
- ✓Organizer reputable — public technical university, publisher of WoS/Scopus journals
- ✓Past editions — 16 editions, archive 2012-2025 online with DOIs
✕Failed !Warning ?Not verified ✓Passed
Promotion (NN 42/2026)
0.75 points per paper (≤ 4 authors)
- — International committee from 21 countries: a2.
- — Indexing claimed but this volume isn't in the database yet: a1 only once it is (usually 6–18 months after the event).
- — Proceedings papers can supply at most 1/3 of the required minimum points.
- — Max 1 paper per author per proceedings volume.
Deadlines & fees
- Abstract
- TBA
- Full paper
- TBA
- Notification
- TBA
- Registration
- TBA
| coauthor | regular | €150 | · 2026, co-author or accompanying person attending |
| presenter | regular | €200 | · 2026, virtual participation |
| presenter | regular | €300 | · 2026 fee 'attending author'; payment deadline 2026-04-10; non-refundable |
| student | regular | €250 | · 2026, PhD 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. |
2027 dates not yet published. Pattern: mid-May in Vilnius, hybrid (2026: 16th edition 2026-05-14..15; abstracts 2026-02-15 ext., full papers 2026-03-08 ext., review 03-01..03-25, final papers 04-05, payment 04-10). eISSN 2029-929X; papers get DOIs 10.3846/bm.YYYY.NNN. Co-organizers 2025: Bialystok Univ. of Technology, Tallinn Univ. of Technology, Univ. of Lodz, Cracow Univ. of Economics. Sections incl. 'New Perspectives on Management and Organisational Resilience'. Selected papers invited to Journal of Business Economics and Management (WoS/Scopus) and Business, Management and Economics Engineering (Scopus). CFP calls review 'double' peer review but no blind type stated.