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Discrete Dynamics in Nature and Society is Scopus-indexed (Q2, CiteScore 4.5), WoS SCIE, DOAJ. Published by John Wiley and Sons Ltd.
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ISSN 1026-0226Verify ISSN ↗1607-887XVerify ISSN ↗
Publisher: John Wiley and Sons Ltd
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| Subject area | Rank | Pctile | Q |
|---|---|---|---|
| Modeling and Simulation | 104 / 397 | 73rd | Q2 |
Not listed in: ABDC, ABS / AJG, FT50, UT Dallas, ONOS (subscription), ONOS (APC covered)
Yes — actively indexed in Scopus, coverage 2004–present (also 2002), best quartile Q2, CiteScore 4.5.
Discrete Dynamics in Nature and Society is Q2 in Modeling and Simulation (rank 104 of 397), by CiteScore 2025.
Discrete Dynamics in Nature and Society 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 4.5, which places it in quartile Q2 at the 73rd percentile of its subject. Its SCImago Journal Rank (SJR, a free Scopus-based metric) is 0.316, quartile Q3, with an H-index of 57.
The publisher lists an article processing charge of about US$2,570 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.
Discrete Dynamics in Nature and Society is published by John Wiley and Sons Ltd. Its print ISSN is 1026-0226 and its online ISSN is 1607-887X.
Yes — indexed in the Science Citation Index Expanded.
Yes — it is an open-access journal, listed in DOAJ.
Discrete Dynamics in Nature and Society has an h-index of 62 and a 2-year mean of 1.36 citations per paper (OpenAlex). Its Scopus CiteScore is 4.5, quartile Q2. On 2-year citations it ranks #175 of 323 Scopus journals in Modeling and Simulation.
Discrete Dynamics in Nature and Society published 65 papers in 2025; its busiest recent year was 2022 with 621. 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 98 research articles (2025–2026), authors are most often from China (60.2%), Saudi Arabia (5.6%) and Iran (5.1%). 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. 307 retracted papers are recorded (61.3 per 1,000 papers). The Problematic Paper Screener flags 28 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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