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Complex Systems and Complexity Science is Scopus-indexed (Q4, CiteScore 0.9). Published by fu za xi tong yu fu za xing ke xue bian ji bu.
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ISSN 1672-3813Verify ISSN ↗
Publisher: fu za xi tong yu fu za xing ke xue bian ji bu
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| Subject area | Rank | Pctile | Q |
|---|---|---|---|
| Control and Systems Engineering | 334 / 390 | 14th | Q4 |
Not listed in: Web of Science, DOAJ, ABDC, ABS / AJG, FT50, UT Dallas, ONOS (subscription), ONOS (APC covered)
Yes — actively indexed in Scopus, coverage 2013–present, best quartile Q4, CiteScore 0.9.
Complex Systems and Complexity Science is Q4 in Control and Systems Engineering (rank 334 of 390), by CiteScore 2025.
Complex Systems and Complexity Science is not in the Web of Science Core Collection (SCIE, SSCI, AHCI or ESCI), so Clarivate publishes no Journal Impact Factor for it. Its Scopus CiteScore is 0.9, quartile Q4, 14th percentile. Any "impact factor" quoted elsewhere is not the Clarivate metric. Its SCImago Journal Rank (SJR, a free Scopus-based metric) is 0.174, quartile Q4, with an H-index of 14.
Complex Systems and Complexity Science is published by fu za xi tong yu fu za xing ke xue bian ji bu. Its ISSN is 1672-3813.
No — it is not currently in the Web of Science core collections (SCIE, SSCI, AHCI or ESCI).
No — it is not registered as an open-access journal in DOAJ or Scopus.
Complex Systems and Complexity Science has an h-index of 12 and a 2-year mean of 0 citations per paper (OpenAlex). Its Scopus CiteScore is 0.9, quartile Q4. On 2-year citations it ranks #281 of 306 Scopus journals in Control and Systems Engineering.
Complex Systems and Complexity Science published 2 papers in 2025; its busiest recent year was 2012 with 45. 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.
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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