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Expert Systems with Applications is Scopus-indexed (Q1, CiteScore 17), formerly ABDC C, ABS / AJG 1, WoS SCIE. It is covered by India's One Nation One Subscription scheme for reading access. Published by Elsevier Ltd.
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ISSN 0957-4174Verify ISSN ↗1873-6793Verify ISSN ↗
Publisher: Elsevier Ltd
Cost to publish: About US$3,500 to publish open access (publisher list price, via OpenAlex) — subscription publishing may be free
| Subject area | Rank | Pctile | Q |
|---|---|---|---|
| Engineering (all) | 10 / 351 | 97th | Q1 |
| Computer Science Applications | 45 / 1022 | 95th | Q1 |
| Artificial Intelligence | 38 / 570 | 93rd | Q1 |
Not listed in: DOAJ, FT50, UT Dallas, ONOS (APC covered)
Yes — actively indexed in Scopus, coverage 1990–present, best quartile Q1, CiteScore 17.
Expert Systems with Applications is Q1 in Engineering (all) (rank 10 of 351), Q1 in Computer Science Applications (rank 45 of 1022) and Q1 in Artificial Intelligence (rank 38 of 570), by CiteScore 2025.
Expert Systems with Applications 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 17, which places it in quartile Q1 at the 97th percentile of its subject. Its SCImago Journal Rank (SJR, a free Scopus-based metric) is 1.939, quartile Q1, with an H-index of 315.
The publisher lists an article processing charge of about US$3,500 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 with Applications is published by Elsevier Ltd. Its print ISSN is 0957-4174 and its online ISSN is 1873-6793.
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 was rated C in the 2022 ABDC list but is not in the current 2025 Journal Quality List.
It is graded 1 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 with Applications has an h-index of 350 and a 2-year mean of 7.61 citations per paper (OpenAlex). Its Scopus CiteScore is 17, quartile Q1. On 2-year citations it ranks #12 of 299 Scopus journals in Engineering (all).
Expert Systems with Applications published 4,305 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 87 research articles (2026), authors are most often from China (77%), Hong Kong SAR China (2.3%) and South Korea (2.3%). 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. 36 retracted papers are recorded (1.1 per 1,000 papers). The Problematic Paper Screener flags 15 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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