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Advances in Complex Systems is Scopus-indexed (Q3, CiteScore 1.7), WoS SCIE. It is covered by India's One Nation One Subscription scheme for reading access. Published by World Scientific Publishing Co. Pte Ltd.
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ISSN 0219-5259Verify ISSN ↗1793-6802Verify ISSN ↗
Publisher: World Scientific Publishing Co. Pte Ltd
Cost to publish: No APC data — check the publisher
| Subject area | Rank | Pctile | Q |
|---|---|---|---|
| Control and Systems Engineering | 266 / 390 | 31st | Q3 |
Not listed in: DOAJ, ABDC, ABS / AJG, FT50, UT Dallas, ONOS (APC covered)
Yes — actively indexed in Scopus, coverage 2004–present, best quartile Q3, CiteScore 1.7.
Advances in Complex Systems is Q3 in Control and Systems Engineering (rank 266 of 390), by CiteScore 2025.
Advances in Complex Systems is indexed in the Science Citation Index Expanded, so it may have a Journal Impact Factor in Clarivate's Journal Citation Reports. JCR is paid, so check it for the current value. The closest free measure is its Scopus CiteScore 1.7, which places it in quartile Q3 at the 31st percentile of its subject. Its SCImago Journal Rank (SJR, a free Scopus-based metric) is 0.225, quartile Q2, with an H-index of 42.
Advances in Complex Systems is published by World Scientific Publishing Co. Pte Ltd. Its print ISSN is 0219-5259 and its online ISSN is 1793-6802.
Yes. It is part of the One Nation One Subscription (ONOS) national subscription, so readers at participating Indian institutions get its full text. ONOS does not cover its article processing charge.
Yes — indexed in the Science Citation Index Expanded.
No — it is not registered as an open-access journal in DOAJ or Scopus.
Advances in Complex Systems has an h-index of 56 and a 2-year mean of 1.01 citations per paper (OpenAlex). Its Scopus CiteScore is 1.7, quartile Q3. On 2-year citations it ranks #205 of 306 Scopus journals in Control and Systems Engineering.
Advances in Complex Systems published 104 papers in 2025; its busiest recent year was 2022 with 141. 2026* is the year so far.
h-index, i10-index and 2-year mean citedness are open, licence-clear metrics from OpenAlex — not a proprietary impact factor. The subject rank counts only journals that OpenAlex has a figure for; it is not a Scopus or Clarivate ranking. Updated 2026-10-14.
In its latest 82 research articles (2025–2026), authors are most often from China (40.9%), India (16%) and United States (14%).
Countries are counted fractionally, so a paper by authors from two countries counts half to each.
Scopus status: Active. No retracted papers are recorded. The Problematic Paper Screener flags 7 of its papers. These are indicators to check, not findings against the journal.
Retractions from OpenAlex; flags from the Problematic Paper Screener (Cabanac, Labbé & Magazinov, CC BY), 2026-09-21 export. A flag marks a paper for a closer look; it is not a finding against the journal.
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