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Decision Analysis is Scopus-indexed (Q3, CiteScore 2.9), ABDC A, ABS / AJG 1, WoS SSCI. Published by The Institute for Operations Research and the Management Sciences (INFORMS).
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ISSN 1545-8490Verify ISSN ↗1545-8504Verify ISSN ↗
Publisher: The Institute for Operations Research and the Management Sciences (INFORMS)
Cost to publish: No APC data — check the publisher
| Subject area | Rank | Pctile | Q |
|---|---|---|---|
| Decision Sciences (all) | 27 / 43 | 38th | Q3 |
Not listed in: DOAJ, FT50, UT Dallas, ONOS (subscription), ONOS (APC covered)
Yes — actively indexed in Scopus, coverage 2010–present, best quartile Q3, CiteScore 2.9.
Decision Analysis is Q3 in Decision Sciences (all) (rank 27 of 43), by CiteScore 2025.
Decision Analysis is indexed in the Social Sciences 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 2.9, which places it in quartile Q3 at the 38th percentile of its subject. Its SCImago Journal Rank (SJR, a free Scopus-based metric) is 0.372, quartile Q3, with an H-index of 34.
Decision Analysis is published by The Institute for Operations Research and the Management Sciences (INFORMS). Its print ISSN is 1545-8490 and its online ISSN is 1545-8504.
Yes — indexed in the Social Sciences Citation Index.
It is rated A in the ABDC Journal Quality List 2025 under Business systems in context.
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.
Decision Analysis has an h-index of 56 and a 2-year mean of 1.14 citations per paper (OpenAlex). Its Scopus CiteScore is 2.9, quartile Q3. On 2-year citations it ranks #28 of 41 Scopus journals in Decision Sciences (all).
Decision Analysis published 25 papers in 2025; its busiest recent year was 2020 with 28. 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 United States (50.7%), China (13.7%) and United Kingdom (6.3%). 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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