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Decision is Scopus-indexed (Q2, CiteScore 3), ABDC B, ABS / AJG 2, WoS ESCI. Published by American Psychological Association.
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ISSN 2325-9965Verify ISSN ↗2325-9973Verify ISSN ↗
Publisher: American Psychological Association
Cost to publish: No APC data — check the publisher
| Subject area | Rank | Pctile | Q |
|---|---|---|---|
| Statistics, Probability and Uncertainty | 67 / 178 | 62nd | Q2 |
| Social Psychology | 162 / 315 | 48th | Q3 |
| Applied Psychology | 138 / 258 | 46th | Q3 |
| Neuropsychology and Physiological Psychology | 46 / 77 | 40th | Q3 |
Not listed in: DOAJ, FT50, UT Dallas, ONOS (subscription), ONOS (APC covered)
Yes — actively indexed in Scopus, coverage 2014–present, best quartile Q2, CiteScore 3.
Decision is Q2 in Statistics, Probability and Uncertainty (rank 67 of 178), Q3 in Social Psychology (rank 162 of 315) and Q3 in Applied Psychology (rank 138 of 258), by CiteScore 2025. It is ranked in 4 subject areas in all.
Decision 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 3, which places it in quartile Q2 at the 62nd percentile of its subject. Its SCImago Journal Rank (SJR, a free Scopus-based metric) is 0.860, quartile Q2, with an H-index of 26.
Decision is published by American Psychological Association. Its print ISSN is 2325-9965 and its online ISSN is 2325-9973.
Yes — indexed in the Emerging Sources Citation Index.
It is rated B in the ABDC Journal Quality List 2025 under Strategy, management and organisational behaviour.
It is graded 2 in the Chartered Association of Business Schools (ABS) Academic Journal Guide (AJG) 2024, in the Psychology (General) field, unchanged from 2021.
No — it is not registered as an open-access journal in DOAJ or Scopus.
Decision has an h-index of 31 and a 2-year mean of 1.2 citations per paper (OpenAlex). Its Scopus CiteScore is 3, quartile Q2. On 2-year citations it ranks #88 of 173 Scopus journals in Statistics, Probability and Uncertainty.
Decision published 23 papers in 2025; its busiest recent year was 2022 with 60. 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 18 research articles (2022–2024), authors are most often from United States (23.9%), United Kingdom (18.4%) and Germany (8.2%).
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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