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Decision Support Systems is Scopus-indexed (Q1, CiteScore 13.5), ABDC A*, ABS / AJG 3, WoS SCIE. It is covered by India's One Nation One Subscription scheme for reading access. Published by Elsevier.
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ISSN 0167-9236Verify ISSN ↗1873-5797Verify ISSN ↗
Publisher: Elsevier
Cost to publish: About US$3,940 to publish open access (publisher list price, via OpenAlex) — subscription publishing may be free
| Subject area | Rank | Pctile | Q |
|---|---|---|---|
| Arts and Humanities (miscellaneous) | 5 / 692 | 99th | Q1 |
| Developmental and Educational Psychology | 9 / 380 | 97th | Q1 |
| Information Systems and Management | 16 / 222 | 93rd | Q1 |
| Information Systems | 45 / 519 | 91st | Q1 |
| Management Information Systems | 15 / 143 | 89th | Q1 |
Not listed in: DOAJ, FT50, UT Dallas, ONOS (APC covered)
Yes — actively indexed in Scopus, coverage 1985–present, best quartile Q1, CiteScore 13.5.
Decision Support Systems is Q1 in Arts and Humanities (miscellaneous) (rank 5 of 692), Q1 in Developmental and Educational Psychology (rank 9 of 380) and Q1 in Information Systems and Management (rank 16 of 222), by CiteScore 2025. It is ranked in 5 subject areas in all.
Decision Support 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 13.5, which places it in quartile Q1 at the 99th percentile of its subject. Its SCImago Journal Rank (SJR, a free Scopus-based metric) is 2.079, quartile Q1, with an H-index of 203.
The publisher lists an article processing charge of about US$3,940 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 Support Systems is published by Elsevier. Its print ISSN is 0167-9236 and its online ISSN is 1873-5797.
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 rated A* in the ABDC Journal Quality List 2025 under Information systems.
It is graded 3 in the Chartered Association of Business Schools (ABS) Academic Journal Guide (AJG) 2024, in the Information Management field, unchanged from 2021.
No — it is not registered as an open-access journal in DOAJ or Scopus.
Decision Support Systems has an h-index of 232 and a 2-year mean of 8.25 citations per paper (OpenAlex). Its Scopus CiteScore is 13.5, quartile Q1. On 2-year citations it ranks #3 of 610 Scopus journals in Arts and Humanities (miscellaneous).
Decision Support Systems published 132 papers in 2025; its busiest recent year was 2024 with 157. 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 92 research articles (2026), authors are most often from China (40.4%), United States (26.6%) and Hong Kong SAR China (5.8%).
Countries are counted fractionally, so a paper by authors from two countries counts half to each.
Scopus status: Active. 4 retracted papers are recorded (0.8 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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