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Flexible Services and Manufacturing Journal is Scopus-indexed (Q1, CiteScore 7), ABDC C, ABS / AJG 1, WoS SCIE. It is covered by India's One Nation One Subscription scheme for reading access. Published by Springer International Publishing.
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ISSN 1936-6582Verify ISSN ↗1936-6590Verify ISSN ↗
Publisher: Springer International Publishing
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| Industrial and Manufacturing Engineering | 87 / 425 | 79th | Q1 |
| Management Science and Operations Research | 57 / 225 | 74th | Q2 |
Not listed in: DOAJ, FT50, UT Dallas, ONOS (APC covered)
Yes — actively indexed in Scopus, coverage 2008–present (also 2006), best quartile Q1, CiteScore 7.
Flexible Services and Manufacturing Journal is Q1 in Industrial and Manufacturing Engineering (rank 87 of 425) and Q2 in Management Science and Operations Research (rank 57 of 225), by CiteScore 2025.
Flexible Services and Manufacturing Journal 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 7, which places it in quartile Q1 at the 79th percentile of its subject. Its SCImago Journal Rank (SJR, a free Scopus-based metric) is 0.817, quartile Q1, with an H-index of 58.
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.
Flexible Services and Manufacturing Journal is published by Springer International Publishing. Its print ISSN is 1936-6582 and its online ISSN is 1936-6590.
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 C in the ABDC Journal Quality List 2025 under Strategy, management and organisational behaviour.
It is graded 1 in the Chartered Association of Business Schools (ABS) Academic Journal Guide (AJG) 2024, in the Operations and Technology Management field, unchanged from 2021.
No — it is not registered as an open-access journal in DOAJ or Scopus.
Flexible Services and Manufacturing Journal has an h-index of 55 and a 2-year mean of 3.39 citations per paper (OpenAlex). Its Scopus CiteScore is 7, quartile Q1. On 2-year citations it ranks #102 of 359 Scopus journals in Industrial and Manufacturing Engineering.
Flexible Services and Manufacturing Journal published 60 papers in 2025; its busiest recent year was 2024 with 62. 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 (2024–2026), authors are most often from China (32.8%), Italy (9.3%) and Germany (7.5%).
Countries are counted fractionally, so a paper by authors from two countries counts half to each.
Scopus status: Active. 1 retracted paper is recorded (1.6 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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