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Fuzzy Sets and Systems is Scopus-indexed (Q1, CiteScore 5.8), WoS SCIE. It is covered by India's One Nation One Subscription scheme for reading access. Published by Elsevier B.V..
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ISSN 0165-0114Verify ISSN ↗1872-6801Verify ISSN ↗
Publisher: Elsevier B.V.
Cost to publish: About US$2,550 to publish open access (publisher list price, via OpenAlex) — subscription publishing may be free
| Subject area | Rank | Pctile | Q |
|---|---|---|---|
| Logic | 3 / 46 | 94th | Q1 |
| Artificial Intelligence | 189 / 570 | 66th | Q2 |
Not listed in: DOAJ, ABDC, ABS / AJG, FT50, UT Dallas, ONOS (APC covered)
Yes — actively indexed in Scopus, coverage 1978–present, best quartile Q1, CiteScore 5.8.
Fuzzy Sets and Systems is Q1 in Logic (rank 3 of 46) and Q2 in Artificial Intelligence (rank 189 of 570), by CiteScore 2025.
Fuzzy Sets and 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 5.8, which places it in quartile Q1 at the 94th percentile of its subject. Its SCImago Journal Rank (SJR, a free Scopus-based metric) is 0.720, quartile Q1, with an H-index of 197.
The publisher lists an article processing charge of about US$2,550 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.
Fuzzy Sets and Systems is published by Elsevier B.V. Its print ISSN is 0165-0114 and its online ISSN is 1872-6801.
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.
Fuzzy Sets and Systems has an h-index of 265 and a 2-year mean of 2.7 citations per paper (OpenAlex). Its Scopus CiteScore is 5.8, quartile Q1. On 2-year citations it ranks #2 of 42 Scopus journals in Logic.
Fuzzy Sets and Systems published 367 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 91 research articles (2026), authors are most often from China (55.1%), Spain (5.3%) and Poland (4.8%). 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. 1 retracted paper is recorded (0.1 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.
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