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Cybernetics and Systems is Scopus-indexed (Q2, CiteScore 6.7), ABS / AJG 1, WoS SCIE. It is covered by India's One Nation One Subscription scheme for reading access. Published by Taylor and Francis Ltd..
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ISSN 0196-9722Verify ISSN ↗1087-6553Verify ISSN ↗
Publisher: Taylor and Francis Ltd.
Cost to publish: No APC data — check the publisher
| Subject area | Rank | Pctile | Q |
|---|---|---|---|
| Information Systems | 142 / 519 | 72nd | Q2 |
| Software | 144 / 503 | 71st | Q2 |
| Artificial Intelligence | 167 / 570 | 70th | Q2 |
Not listed in: DOAJ, ABDC, FT50, UT Dallas, ONOS (APC covered)
Yes — actively indexed in Scopus, coverage 1980–present, best quartile Q2, CiteScore 6.7.
Cybernetics and Systems is Q2 in Information Systems (rank 142 of 519), Q2 in Software (rank 144 of 503) and Q2 in Artificial Intelligence (rank 167 of 570), by CiteScore 2025.
Cybernetics and 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 6.7, which places it in quartile Q2 at the 72nd percentile of its subject. Its SCImago Journal Rank (SJR, a free Scopus-based metric) is 0.469, quartile Q2, with an H-index of 51.
Cybernetics and Systems is published by Taylor and Francis Ltd. Its print ISSN is 0196-9722 and its online ISSN is 1087-6553.
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.
It is graded 1 in the Chartered Association of Business Schools (ABS) Academic Journal Guide (AJG) 2024, in the Operations Research and Management Science field, unchanged from 2021.
No — it is not registered as an open-access journal in DOAJ or Scopus.
Cybernetics and Systems has an h-index of 61 and a 2-year mean of 2.9 citations per paper (OpenAlex). Its Scopus CiteScore is 6.7, quartile Q2. On 2-year citations it ranks #156 of 397 Scopus journals in Information Systems.
Cybernetics and Systems published 49 papers in 2025; its busiest recent year was 2022 with 160. 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 97 research articles (2023–2026), authors are most often from India (51.1%), China (15%) and United States (5.5%). 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. 44 retracted papers are recorded (21.7 per 1,000 papers). The Problematic Paper Screener flags 8 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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