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Complex System Modeling and Simulation is Scopus-indexed (Q1, CiteScore 8.1), WoS ESCI, DOAJ. Published by Tsinghua University Press.
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ISSN 2096-9929Verify ISSN ↗2097-3705Verify ISSN ↗
Publisher: Tsinghua University Press
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| Subject area | Rank | Pctile | Q |
|---|---|---|---|
| Industrial and Manufacturing Engineering | 67 / 425 | 84th | Q1 |
| Electrical and Electronic Engineering | 166 / 1030 | 83rd | Q1 |
| Control and Systems Engineering | 68 / 390 | 82nd | Q1 |
Not listed in: ABDC, ABS / AJG, FT50, UT Dallas, ONOS (subscription), ONOS (APC covered)
Yes — actively indexed in Scopus, coverage 2021–present, best quartile Q1, CiteScore 8.1.
Complex System Modeling and Simulation is Q1 in Industrial and Manufacturing Engineering (rank 67 of 425), Q1 in Electrical and Electronic Engineering (rank 166 of 1030) and Q1 in Control and Systems Engineering (rank 68 of 390), by CiteScore 2025.
Complex System Modeling and Simulation is indexed in the Emerging Sources Citation Index, 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 8.1, which places it in quartile Q1 at the 84th percentile of its subject. Its SCImago Journal Rank (SJR, a free Scopus-based metric) is 0.751, quartile Q1, with an H-index of 21.
Complex System Modeling and Simulation is published by Tsinghua University Press. Its print ISSN is 2096-9929 and its online ISSN is 2097-3705.
Yes — indexed in the Emerging Sources Citation Index.
Yes — it is an open-access journal, listed in DOAJ.
Complex System Modeling and Simulation has an h-index of 24 and a 2-year mean of 2.75 citations per paper (OpenAlex). Its Scopus CiteScore is 8.1, quartile Q1. On 2-year citations it ranks #123 of 359 Scopus journals in Industrial and Manufacturing Engineering.
Complex System Modeling and Simulation published 44 papers in 2025. 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 96 research articles (2022–2026), authors are most often from China (66.9%), United States (6.8%) and United Kingdom (5%). More than half of recent authorship comes from one country.
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 none 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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