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Evolving Systems is Scopus-indexed (Q1, CiteScore 8.1), WoS SCIE. It is covered by India's One Nation One Subscription scheme for reading access. Published by Springer Nature.
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ISSN 1868-6478Verify ISSN ↗1868-6486Verify ISSN ↗
Publisher: Springer Nature
Cost to publish: About US$2,590 to publish open access (publisher list price, via OpenAlex) — subscription publishing may be free
| Subject area | Rank | Pctile | Q |
|---|---|---|---|
| Control and Optimization | 11 / 198 | 94th | Q1 |
| Modeling and Simulation | 28 / 397 | 93rd | Q1 |
| Control and Systems Engineering | 67 / 390 | 82nd | Q1 |
| Computer Science Applications | 200 / 1022 | 80th | Q1 |
Not listed in: DOAJ, ABDC, ABS / AJG, FT50, UT Dallas, ONOS (APC covered)
Yes — actively indexed in Scopus, coverage 2010–present, best quartile Q1, CiteScore 8.1.
Evolving Systems is Q1 in Control and Optimization (rank 11 of 198), Q1 in Modeling and Simulation (rank 28 of 397) and Q1 in Control and Systems Engineering (rank 67 of 390), by CiteScore 2025. It is ranked in 4 subject areas in all.
Evolving 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 8.1, which places it in quartile Q1 at the 94th percentile of its subject. Its SCImago Journal Rank (SJR, a free Scopus-based metric) is 0.754, quartile Q1, with an H-index of 47.
The publisher lists an article processing charge of about US$2,590 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.
Evolving Systems is published by Springer Nature. Its print ISSN is 1868-6478 and its online ISSN is 1868-6486.
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.
No — it is not registered as an open-access journal in DOAJ or Scopus.
Evolving Systems has an h-index of 52 and a 2-year mean of 4.13 citations per paper (OpenAlex). Its Scopus CiteScore is 8.1, quartile Q1. On 2-year citations it ranks #15 of 129 Scopus journals in Control and Optimization.
Evolving Systems published 128 papers in 2025. 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 97 research articles (2026), authors are most often from India (44.6%), China (18%) and Pakistan (5%).
Countries are counted fractionally, so a paper by authors from two countries counts half to each.
Scopus status: Active. 4 retracted papers are recorded (4.6 per 1,000 papers). The Problematic Paper Screener flags 6 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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