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Expert Systems is Scopus-indexed (Q1, CiteScore 9.6), ABS / AJG 2, WoS SCIE. It is covered by India's One Nation One Subscription scheme for reading access. Published by Wiley-Blackwell Publishing Ltd.
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ISSN 0266-4720Verify ISSN ↗1468-0394Verify ISSN ↗
Publisher: Wiley-Blackwell Publishing Ltd
Cost to publish: About US$3,600 to publish open access (publisher list price, via OpenAlex) — subscription publishing may be free
| Subject area | Rank | Pctile | Q |
|---|---|---|---|
| Computational Theory and Mathematics | 18 / 203 | 91st | Q1 |
| Control and Systems Engineering | 48 / 390 | 87th | Q1 |
| Theoretical Computer Science | 17 / 135 | 87th | Q1 |
| Artificial Intelligence | 101 / 570 | 82nd | Q1 |
Not listed in: DOAJ, ABDC, FT50, UT Dallas, ONOS (APC covered)
Yes — actively indexed in Scopus, coverage 1984–present, best quartile Q1, CiteScore 9.6.
Expert Systems is Q1 in Computational Theory and Mathematics (rank 18 of 203), Q1 in Control and Systems Engineering (rank 48 of 390) and Q1 in Theoretical Computer Science (rank 17 of 135), by CiteScore 2025. It is ranked in 4 subject areas in all.
Expert 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 9.6, which places it in quartile Q1 at the 91st percentile of its subject. Its SCImago Journal Rank (SJR, a free Scopus-based metric) is 0.738, quartile Q2, with an H-index of 69.
The publisher lists an article processing charge of about US$3,600 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.
Expert Systems is published by Wiley-Blackwell Publishing Ltd. Its print ISSN is 0266-4720 and its online ISSN is 1468-0394.
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 graded 2 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.
Expert Systems has an h-index of 82 and a 2-year mean of 4.13 citations per paper (OpenAlex). Its Scopus CiteScore is 9.6, quartile Q1. On 2-year citations it ranks #30 of 178 Scopus journals in Computational Theory and Mathematics.
Expert Systems published 224 papers in 2025; its busiest recent year was 2024 with 310. 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 100 research articles (2026), authors are most often from China (44.5%), Spain (8.1%) and United Kingdom (5.6%).
Countries are counted fractionally, so a paper by authors from two countries counts half to each.
Scopus status: Active. 102 retracted papers are recorded (27.9 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.
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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