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Decision Sciences is Scopus-indexed (Q1, CiteScore 6.6), ABDC A*, ABS / AJG 3, WoS SSCI. It is covered by India's One Nation One Subscription scheme for reading access. Published by Wiley-Blackwell Publishing.
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ISSN 0011-7315Verify ISSN ↗1540-5915Verify ISSN ↗
Publisher: Wiley-Blackwell Publishing
Cost to publish: About US$3,090 to publish open access (publisher list price, via OpenAlex) — subscription publishing may be free
| Subject area | Rank | Pctile | Q |
|---|---|---|---|
| Information Systems and Management | 49 / 222 | 78th | Q1 |
| Business, Management and Accounting (all) | 54 / 235 | 77th | Q1 |
| Management of Technology and Innovation | 97 / 317 | 69th | Q2 |
| Strategy and Management | 161 / 506 | 68th | Q2 |
| Stage | Typical time |
|---|---|
| Submission → first decision | 9 days |
Not listed in: DOAJ, FT50, UT Dallas, ONOS (APC covered)
Yes — actively indexed in Scopus, coverage 1970–present, best quartile Q1, CiteScore 6.6.
Decision Sciences is Q1 in Information Systems and Management (rank 49 of 222), Q1 in Business, Management and Accounting (all) (rank 54 of 235) and Q2 in Management of Technology and Innovation (rank 97 of 317), by CiteScore 2025. It is ranked in 4 subject areas in all.
Decision Sciences 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 6.6, which places it in quartile Q1 at the 78th percentile of its subject. Its SCImago Journal Rank (SJR, a free Scopus-based metric) is 1.204, quartile Q1, with an H-index of 134.
The publisher lists an article processing charge of about US$3,090 for open access (source: OpenAlex). Many journals also publish by the subscription route at no cost to the author, so confirm on the journal's own website.
Decision Sciences is published by Wiley-Blackwell Publishing. Its print ISSN is 0011-7315 and its online ISSN is 1540-5915.
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 Social Sciences Citation Index.
It is rated A* in the ABDC Journal Quality List 2025 under Transportation, logistics and supply chains.
It is graded 3 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 Sciences has an h-index of 183 and a 2-year mean of 1.62 citations per paper (OpenAlex). Its Scopus CiteScore is 6.6, quartile Q1. On 2-year citations it ranks #79 of 156 Scopus journals in Information Systems and Management.
Decision Sciences published 38 papers in 2025; its busiest recent year was 2020 with 88. 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 79 research articles (2023–2026), authors are most often from United States (47.6%), China (21.1%) and Netherlands (5.4%).
Countries are counted fractionally, so a paper by authors from two countries counts half to each.
Scopus status: Active. 2 retracted papers are recorded (0.6 per 1,000 papers). 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.
Index data is curated from public sources (Scopus, Web of Science, ABDC, FT50, UT Dallas, DOAJ). CiteScore and quartiles reflect the latest available Scopus release. Always verify a journal's current status on its official source before submitting.
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